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Legend and Common performed "Glory" during the 87th Academy Awards show on February 22, 2015 using a stage-setting of Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge. The song won the Oscar for Best Original Song. [11] In October 2015, Common surprised a student choir in Compton, California with a live performance of "Glory" in support of My Brother's Keeper ...
Best Urban/Alternative Performance: Nominated 2006 "They Say" (featuring Kanye West & John Legend) Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Nominated "Testify" Best Rap Solo Performance Nominated "The Corner" (featuring The Last Poets) Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: Nominated Be: Best Rap Album: Nominated 2008: Finding Forever: Nominated "The People"
In 2006, Legend received ten nominations and won five, including Best R&B Male Vocal Performance for "Stay with You", Best R&B Album for Get Lifted, Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards; Best R&B/Soul Album Male for Get Lifted, Best R&B/Soul Single Male for "Ordinary People" at the Soul Train Music Awards. In 2007, Legend received six ...
Legend, with a backing band, performed Sam Cooke's “A Change is Going to Come”; Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' “Wake Up Everybody”; and his original, Oscar-winning song “Glory” from ...
B eginning an hour earlier than usual, at 7 p.m. ET, the 96th Academy Awards kicked off with an opening monologue from four-time host Jimmy Kimmel that set the tone for the evening ahead ...
Host Trevor Noah kicked off the show at the Crypto.com Arena on Feb. 2 with a powerful monologue about the ongoing L.A. fires — and Dawes, John Legend, Brad Paisley, Brittany Howard, Dawes ...
John Roger Stephens (born December 28, 1978), known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist.He began his musical career working behind the scenes for other artists, playing piano on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything", and performing as an uncredited backing vocalist on Jay-Z's "Encore" and Alicia Keys' "You Don't Know My Name".
The film garnered awards and nominations in a variety of categories with particular praise for its direction, Oyelowo's portrayal of King, and the song "Glory" by John Legend, and Common. At the 87th Academy Awards , Selma won for Best Original Song for "Glory" and also received a nomination for Best Picture —the first film directed by a ...