

And this is me saying, I’m proud of who I am, I’m confident in the work I’ve done, and I’m just going to declare it.” Smokey Robinson, John Legend and Berry Gordy at 2023 MusiCares Persons of the Year Gala. I had to earn that, to live up to it by delivering in the performance and the music.

Regarding the inspiration behind the album’s title, Legend said, “Until this point, I’ve never used an aspect of my name as the title of an album. LEGEND features Muni Long, Jazmine Sullivan, Jhené Aiko, Ty Dolla $ign, Ledisi, Amber Mark and more. The album debuted in the top 10 of Billboard’s R&B Albums chart, tallying Legend’s fifth consecutive top 10 since its 2012 launch. A post shared by John Legend standard version of LEGEND was released Sept.
