John Stephens (born December 28, 1978 in Springfield, Ohio), better known a… Read Full Bio ↴John Stephens (born December 28, 1978 in Springfield, Ohio), better known as John Legend, is a Grammy award winning R&B singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet and actor signed to Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music label. Prior to the release of his debut album Get Lifted in 2004, Legend's career gained momentum through a series of successful collaborations with multiple established artists such as Jay-Z, Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill. He released his second album, Once Again in 2006, and his latest release, 2008's Evolver showcased a more experimental and upbeat side of Legend. He is the recipient of six Grammy Awards, and in 2007 he received the special Starlight award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. You can get Cheap John Legend Tickets for his next performances.

Legend also played the piano on Lauryn Hill's 1998 song "Everything is Everything" and sang background vocals on Jay-Z's "Encore" and Alicia Keys' "You Don't Know My Name". Legend frequently cites gospel, R&B, and hip hop music as his main musical influences.

Legend released his critically acclaimed and Billboard Top Ten second album, Once Again, in October 2006. Produced by Raphael Saadiq, Kanye West and will.i.am, it is again a mixture of gospel and classic soul showcasing his extraordinary voice, particularly on "Show Me".

Grammy Award Wins:
*2005 Best New Artist
*2005 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: "Ordinary People"
*2005 Best R&B Album- Get Lifted
*2007 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: Heaven
*2007 Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group: Family Affair

Neo-soul singer and pianist John Legend combined the raw fervor of contemporaries Cody ChesnuTT and the burning precision of D'Angelo. Born John Stephens, Legend was a child prodigy who grew up in Ohio, where he began singing gospel and playing piano at the tender age of five. Legend left Ohio at 16 to attend college in Philadelphia, and it was there that he first found a larger audience. Not yet out of his teens, Legend was tapped to play piano on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything" in 1998. After completing college, he moved to New York, where he began to build a loyal following playing in nightclubs and releasing CDs that he would sell at shows. He also became an in-demand session musician, playing and occasionally writing for a wide array of artists, including Alicia Keys, Twista, Janet Jackson, and Kanye West. It wasn't until West signed the young talent to his new label that he adopted the Legend name with 2004's Solo Sessions Vol. 1: Live at the Knitting Factory. Get Lifted, his first studio album, was released later in the year. On the strength of enduring single "Ordinary People," the album reached the Top Five of the Billboard 200. This led to three Grammy Awards: Best R&B Album, Best R&B Male Vocal Performance, and Best New Artist. Once Again, which peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and number one on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, followed in October 2006. Live from Philadelphia, sold exclusively at Target stores, was a successful stopgap release that predated October 2008's Evolver.

The Other Ones
John Legend Lyrics

All
All the other ones
Yeah

All the other ones
All the other ones fade away
Tell me who you really love
Who do like we does
We know what's up, yeah
We know what's up, yeah

You ain't tryna hear about Gina
I don't wanna talk about Peter
Pass that phone I'll delete him
Don't need him, leave him outside
Out your mind, yeah
Don't ask why I left her
Held out for somethin' better
Some shit ain't forever, had to tell her
Tell her, bye-bye
Say bye-bye to

All the other ones
All the other ones fade away
Tell me who you really love (who you really)
Who do like we does (who do like we)
We know what's up
Have you had enough of

All the other ones
All the other ones
Tell me who you really love (who you really)
Who do like we does (who do like we)
We know what's up, yeah
We know what's up, yeah

Don't wanna remember ever since that September ('tember)
Not sentimental, let them go and live your new life
Oh, new life, yeah
I'll pick you up, you leave the past back in the rearview
I see the future got a clear view with you and I
Oh, you and I, well

All the other ones
All the other ones fade away
Tell me who you really love (who you really)
Who do like we does (who do like we)
We know what's up
Have you had enough of

All the other ones
All the other ones
Tell me who you really love (who you really)
Who do like we does (who do like we)
We know what's up, yeah
We know what's up, yeah

We know what love is, we know the difference
The other ones show what it isn't
Our time to value but to reminisce
On the past, neither one of us miss it
Brandon, D.J., Cody, Chris
Kenny, Sean, Joe, Mike, and Jack
Disappear from my memory
I ain't even have to make my fingers snap
They pull my strings, you tie my knot
You different from (all the other ones)
Why I love you lots, they feel like lies
They salty, they know what I got
I value you, you value me
Our past lives saying we can't see
We wave it off, I don't wave at all
When I seem 'em out, they know they can't comepete, uh

All the other ones
All the other ones (they fade away like a fadeawy)
All the other ones, yeah
You know what's up, yeah (I know what's up)
I know what's up, yeah (you know what's up)

(You know what's up) yeah, yeah
(Ain't enough)
(It's just me and you)
(No one can do it like we does)

Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Written by: Benjamin Hudson Mcildowie, Drew Love, John R. Stephens, Marlanna Evans, Melvin Ray Moore, Shane Lindstrom

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