{"id":10591,"date":"2020-06-18T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/john-legend-spreads-bigger-love-with-juneteenth-lp-release\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:23:00","slug":"john-legend-spreads-bigger-love-with-juneteenth-lp-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/john-legend-spreads-bigger-love-with-juneteenth-lp-release\/","title":{"rendered":"#John Legend spreads \u2018Bigger Love\u2019 with Juneteenth LP release"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#John Legend spreads \u2018Bigger Love\u2019 with Juneteenth LP release<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n For John Legend, this will be no ordinary Father\u2019s Day weekend.<\/p>\n

It all starts Friday, when the EGOT winner will celebrate both a new album and Juneteenth \u2014 the holiday marking the end of slavery in the US on June 19, 1865.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited that the album\u2019s coming out that day,\u201d says Legend of \u201cBigger Love,\u201d which arrives two days before his \u201cJohn Legend and Family: A Bigger Love Father\u2019s Day\u201d special airs on ABC. \u201cAnd I\u2019m excited that people are taking a moment to celebrate the ending of slavery in this country \u2026 It also reminds us that we still have a ways to go to get more free in this country. Hopefully everyone is paying attention to that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

People have been paying attention to Legend ever since he took us higher with his 2004 debut, \u201cGet Lifted,\u201d which featured his breakout hit, \u201cOrdinary People,\u201d and earned him the first three of his 11 Grammys. Since then, \u201cThe Voice\u201d coach \u2014 one of the best pure singers of his generation \u2014 has also won an Emmy and a Tony for producing to go along with a 2015 Best Original Song Oscar for cowriting \u201cGlory,\u201d from the civil rights movie \u201cSelma.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the Black Lives Matter movement has marched on in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s killing and other senseless slayings of black people, the artist born John Stephens says that we still have a lot to overcome on this Juneteenth.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of it is anger and mourning and just being re-traumatized every time when it seems like our lives mean so little to the police and to others,\u201d Legend, 41, tells The Post. \u201cThat can be traumatizing and difficult to watch. But there\u2019s another side of it that is inspiring, because you\u2019re seeing so many people out in the streets marching, and it\u2019s not just black folks \u2014 there are people of all races and all sexualities and all religions \u2026 saying that this country needs equality, this country needs justice, and that black lives do matter. I think that\u2019s a powerful thing, and that makes me feel hopeful that we can see some real change.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The R&B biggie feels a responsibility to be a part of that change as a black artist \u2014 whether it\u2019s founding the nonprofit FreeAmerica in 2014 to fight inequality in mass incarceration or recently writing an Entertainment Weekly op-ed calling for justice for Breonna Taylor after she was fatally shot by police in March.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always believed that part of being an artist for me was always gonna include me speaking up for justice,\u201d says Legend. \u201cA lot of the artists that I grew up looking up to \u2014 whether it was Stevie Wonder or Harry Belafonte or Nina Simone or Aretha Franklin \u2014 they both financially supported the movement during their time and they spoke out when they thought they could be useful. So, for me, that has always been part of my job descript<\/a>ion. I know every artist doesn\u2019t feel compelled to speak out or doesn\u2019t feel informed enough to speak out. And that\u2019s fine, they don\u2019t have to, but it\u2019s been part of what I think of as my mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although \u201cBigger Love\u201d was written before all of the protests \u2014 not to mention a global pandemic \u2014 some songs feel made for this moment. On the reggae-tinged title track, Legend gets us lifted once again: \u201cThe world feels like it\u2019s crumblin\u2019\/Every day another new somethin\u2019\/But in the end, in the end\/Can\u2019t nobody do us in.\u201d Meanwhile, on the closing ballad, \u201cNever Break,\u201d he sings about an undefeatable force that\u2019s \u201cbigger than you and me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat \u2018bigger\u2019 aspect takes on a new meaning now,\u201d says Legend. \u201c[It\u2019s] about love being interpersonal between the people you\u2019re close to, but also being about seeing the value and the humanity in people that you don\u2019t even know, whether they live next door, across the town or across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019ve always believed that part of being an artist for me was always gonna include me speaking up for justice.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, the big love of Legend\u2019s life has been his supermodel wife, Chrissy Teigen, who was the muse for \u201cAll of Me,\u201d his 2014 No. 1 single, as well as his latest album. \u201cYeah,\u201d he says, \u201cI think this one and [2013\u2019s] \u2018Love in the Future\u2019 were both very much about celebrating our love and celebrating our family and celebrating our hope that we can stick [together] through any challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Married since 2013, there are no signs of any seven-year-itch \u2014 even after being quarantined together with daughter Luna, 4, and son Miles, 2. \u201cWe\u2019re used to being close to each other and not having a lot of breaks from each other,\u201d says Legend, \u201cso we\u2019ve been able to deal with the quarantine pretty well, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the stay-at-home serenades from People magazine\u2019s reigning Sexiest Man Alive haven\u2019t always been as romantic as you might think. \u201cShe hears [my singing] all the time \u2014 for better or for worse,\u201d he says with a laugh.<\/p>\n

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Chrissy Teigen, Miles, Luna and John Legend pose for a family portrait.<\/span>NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal via<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Legend will be taking his act out of the house on Friday \u2014 first during a performance on \u201cGood Morning America\u201d and then in a Verzuz Instagram Live battle with Alicia Keys at 8 p.m. \u201cWe\u2019ll be in the same room on dueling pianos. We\u2019re gonna actually play,\u201d says Legend of the special Juneteenth event with his \u201csister\u201d from early in his career: \u201cMy first major tour as a solo artist was opening for her \u2026 way back in 2005.\u201d<\/p>\n

Legend collaborates with a diverse group of black artists \u2014 representing everything from blues-rock (Gary Clark Jr.) and R&B (Jhen\u00e9 Aiko) to reggae (Koffee) and hip-hop (Rapsody) \u2014 on \u201cBigger Love.\u201d And since it\u2019s also Black Music Month, it couldn\u2019t be a better time to celebrate black music. \u201cIt\u2019s been such a powerful force, not just in our community, but in the world,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

And as a black father in 2020, Legend has his eyes on the prize for his children. \u201cYou\u2019re already watching to see how they are understanding what being a person of color means in this country, what it means to be black in this country,\u201d he says. \u201cEven at an early age, kids get a message about what kind of skin colors are beautiful and valuable, what kind of hair is beautiful and valuable. So you wanna make sure you give your kids a sense that they\u2019re beautiful the way they were made.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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