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John Legend
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 28
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I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.
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I think it's a bit of a myth that black Americans need one leader. We're not a monolith. And now that legal segregation and discrimination has been pretty much abolished there isn't the sort of universal mandate that a black leader would have. Black folks live in a wide variety of social situations right now.
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You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.
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But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
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As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
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I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.
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I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.
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People see me as pretty low key in a lot of ways. And for me, like, even choosing to be John Legend and to be who I am as a star, as an artist, it's a risk 'cause I - you know, I graduated from college and worked as a management consultant, and I could have had this very kind of buttoned-up life and worn suits to work every day.
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Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.
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I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.
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We're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's difficult for people to persist through that.
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The struggle for freedom and justice is now.
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I think the most important thing is that I'm making music that the people enjoy. So the fans, the people that are out there listening to music and consuming music, I want them to enjoy it and love it. And so that's more important to me than Grammys.
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Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.
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Experience is a great teacher.
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The fun part about collaborating is that you naturally just bounce off each other's energy and learn off each other.
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I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.
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I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
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I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.
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J. Ivy is a brilliant man with an incredible voice and a way with words. I've known him for over a decade and owe my stage name to him believing in me back then before I even had a record deal. I'm excited for him to share his truth with the world.
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