It garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and won for best R&B album and best male R&B vocal performance. Buoyed by the ballad вЂњOrdinary People,вЂќ the album rose up European and American popular-music and rhythm-and-blues charts. Records) with Sony Music, the first album he produced was LegendвЂ™s major-label debut, Get Lifted, released in the final week of 2004. After West formed his own label (G.O.O.D. Legend worked on WestвЂ™s debut album as a rap musician, The College Dropout (2004). Was Mozart murdered? Was Lady Gaga really born that way? And did the Jefferson Airplane start out as a classical music group? Settle the score with this quiz. During that time he adopted the stage name John Legend. In 2001 he was introduced to the up-and-coming producer Kanye West and began contributing keyboard music and backing vocals to tracks by other artists, among them Alicia Keys, Talib Kweli, and the Black-Eyed Peas. He then moved to New York City, working for the Boston Consulting Group by day and playing piano and singing in nightclubs he sold self-produced CDs ( John Stephens and Live at JimmyвЂ™s Uptown ) at those appearances. After he graduated from high school, he attended the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1999). His parents homeschooled him for several of his elementary-school years. He took piano lessons and sang in the church choir as a child. His mother directed a church choir, while his grandmother played organ and his father and brother played drums at the church. Stephens was born into a musically gifted working-class family. Legend was the first African American man to win all four major North American entertainment awards ( EGOT: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony). He also was a sought-after session musician. John Legend, byname of John Roger Stephens, (born December 28, 1978, Springfield, Ohio, U.S.), American singer-songwriter and pianist who achieved success in the early 21st century with his fusion of R&B and soul music. Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.

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