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    John Legend:
    The All of Me Tour
    RENE AND HENRY SEGERSTROM
    CONCERT HALL
    April 2, 2014
    Wednesday at 8 p.m.
    Out of courtesy to the artists and your
    fellow patrons, please take a moment to turn
    off and refrain from using cellular phones,
    pagers, watch alarms and similar devices. The
    use of any audio or videorecording device or
    the taking of photographs (with or without
    flash) is strictly prohibited. Thank you.
    The Center applauds:
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    John Legend
    Ohio-born John Legend is a critically
    acclaimed, multi-award-winning, platinum-
    selling singer-songwriter. Hes sold an impres-
    sive seven million albums worldwide. His work
    has garnered him nine Grammy Awards,
    three Soul Train Awards, the BET Award
    for Best New Artist and the special Starlight
    Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. A
    graduate of University of Pennsylvania where
    he studied English and African-American lit-
    erature, Legend participated in a wide range of
    musical activities while in college. During the
    same period, Legend was introduced to Lauryn
    Hill, who hired him to play piano on her
    track Everything Is Everything, and shortly
    thereafer he began to play shows around the
    Philadelphia area, eventually expanding his
    audience base to New York, Boston, Atlanta
    and Washington D.C.
    Afer college, Legend was introduced to
    then up-and-coming hip-hop artist Kanye
    West, who quickly signed Legend to his
    G.O.O.D. Music imprint and hired him to
    sing vocal hooks on some of his music. Legend
    started gaining momentum through a series
    of similar collaborations with established
    artists, adding vocals to an impressive list of
    chart-topping hits including Wests All of the
    Lights, Jay-Zs Encore and back-up vocals
    on Alicia Keys 2003 song, You Dont Know
    My Name. Legends debut album, Get Lifed,
    was released in December of 2004 through
    Columbia Records. Te critically acclaimed
    album spawned the artists frst hit single,
    Ordinary People, and scored Legend mul-
    tiple Grammy Awards in 2006, including Best
    R&B Album, Best New Artist and Best Male
    R&B Vocal Performance. Te follow up was
    2006s platinum-selling Once Again, which
    brought Legend another Grammy, Best Male
    R&B Performance, for his single Heaven,
    and included collaborations with Kanye West,
    will.i.am and Raphael Saadiq. Legends next
    release was 2008s Evolver, led by the hit single
    Green Light featuring Andre 3000. Legends
    most recent efort was his 2010 collabora-
    tion with the Roots, Wake Up, which won the
    Grammy for Best R&B Album a year later.
    Troughout his career, John has worked
    to make a diference in the lives of others. In
    2007, he launched the Show Me Campaign
    (ShowMeCampaign.org), an initiative that
    focuses on education as a key to break the
    cycle of poverty. Te 2010 BET Humanitarian
    of the Year award, the 2009 CARE
    Humanitarian Award for Global Change, the
    2009 Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished
    Humanitarian Service Award from Africare
    and the 2011 Harvard Foundation Artist of
    the Year Award recognize Legends eforts
    and leadership in this arena. John sits on the
    boards of Te Education Equality Project,
    Teach for America, Stand for Children and
    the Harlem Village Academies and co-chairs
    the Harlem Village Academies National
    Leadership Board.
    About the Artist

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