John Legend

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 25 September 2022

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John Legend's famous voice first began to draw a crowd when he sang in his church choir in Springfield, Ohio. After graduating with honors from the Ivy League's University of Pennsylvania, Legend kept a steady day-job while pursuing his dream in music. His debut 2004 album Get Lifted won three Grammy awards, including one for Best New Artist. Since then, he has won nine more Grammys, adding two Emmys, a Tony and an Oscar. In this week's "Sunday Sitdown," Willie Geist and Legend got together in New York to talk about his latest album and much more.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.0	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.2	I will keep my introduction brief this morning because this man needs no introduction.
0:14.1	He is spelled out with me, Egot, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony winner, John Legend.
0:22.6	John is out with a new album of 24 songs, a double disc they might have called it back in the day,
0:28.7	called Legend. He's finally just embracing it. I've reached Legend's status.
0:34.0	That last name of his was given to him by somebody else. As you'll hear in our conversation,
0:38.9	but now he's calling his new album Legend. We talk about the music, how he makes music,
0:44.3	which is an amazing conversation about his process and how he plays the piano and mumbles along
0:48.9	to create a melody before he even finds the words. We talk about his day job on the voice now
0:54.8	entering his seventh season on that show, his Las Vegas residency, and expecting baby number three
1:01.9	with his wife, Chrissy Tean. So without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, John Legend right now
1:08.4	on the Sunday Sit Down Podcast. Thanks for doing this John. My pleasure. Thanks for having me back.
1:13.7	Great to see you. I think the last time we did it, we were zooming. We were zooming during the pandemic.
1:18.2	That was bigger love. Yeah, a couple years back. Bigger love and now we're here in person in New York.
1:22.1	It's great to be here. I can't believe it's been that long. Yeah. To be sitting with you on album day.
1:26.7	Yes, which is a big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big day. What does album day feel like? You've
1:31.5	put so much into this years and years of writing and work and everything and now the world has it.
1:36.0	I'm truly excited. I think it's similar to being a kid on Christmas where you're like
1:40.4	anticipating and waiting for, you know, what you hope will be a really good day. And it's not really
1:47.5	about whether or not it's commercially this or that. I just want people to have the music because
1:52.8	I've been working on it for so long. I want them to love it and I want to I want to feel like that
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