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Oprah's Super Soul

John Legend

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In 2013, Oprah sat down with 11-time Grammy winner John Legend in his Hollywood Hills home to talk about his first solo album in five years and his passion for education. John's then-future-wife, Chrissy Teigen—who is a model, TV host and social media personality—also joins the conversation to discuss their relationship and tabloid rumors of infidelity.

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0:00.0

I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

0:07.5

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

0:16.0

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

0:23.0

now.

0:24.8

John Legend has been poised for greatness since he was a precocious toddler learning

0:28.9

piano at the age of four. By the time he was 11, he was writing his own songs and singing

0:34.5

them in church with dreams of one day becoming as famous as the legends he idolized. Marvin

0:40.5

Gay, Stevie Wonder, and the music that called for lasting social change would become the

0:46.6

bar from which John Legend measured his own work. In five years, he would go on to win

0:52.5

nine Grammys and sell out concerts around the world, writing his own songs and collaborating

0:57.9

with music superstars along the way. But John's genius goes far beyond music. His outspoken

1:03.9

concern for education, poverty, and politics landed him on Time magazine's list of the most

1:09.9

influential people in the world. Tonight on Next Chapter, I'm at the Los Angeles

1:15.2

home where John lives with his fiance, Chrissy Teigen.

1:38.1

This, we have barbecues here all the time. And it's kind of just a nice vibe. Get to

1:45.0

relax with friends. We like to cook a lot. This is my favorite spot back here. Reading

1:51.6

cove. If you ever want to read, that's a good place to do it.

1:55.5

I love a man. What a reading cove. I love a reading cove. It also feels like Coyote

2:01.7

country. Do you have dogs, man? Yes. It's scary because there was a coyote back here and

2:07.5

he attacked our little French bulldog. But she got away. She got away. I know. I never

2:13.4

let my dogs go out. It's scary at night. So welcome. All right. Now we're inside. Yes.

2:21.4

This is your first house in LA. Yes, this is my first house in LA.

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