Concert In Bogor, John Legend Of Career Travel Stories To The Origin Of The Stage Name Proposal

An Evening With John Legend: A Night of Songs And Stories at SICK (Instagram @johnlegend)

JAKARTA - John Legend successfully held his concert entitled An Evening With John Legend: A Night of Songs And Stories, at Sentul International Convention Center, Sunday, October 6, 2024. At this concert, John Legend not only sang, but also told about his career journey to famous musicians.

The singer of the song All Of Me said that he knew the music of his parents who brought him to actively serve in the church. He joined the church choir in his hometown, Ohio, United States.

I grew up in church. Studying Bibles, services, and choir training. It forms aspects of my life. That is the basis of my music, family, and education," said John Legend.

Throughout his life, John admitted that music helped him in many ways. He is a shy person, but with music he can get acquainted and make friends with many people.

"I'm shy, and one thing I know is that I can sing and play music. Music is for me to introduce myself to other people, to be with them," he said.

John Legend began to focus on a career as a professional musician when he was in college. However, at that time his wish could not be achieved until he worked as a consultant.

Until finally John Legend met Kanye West. They then worked together to make music, until John was finally able to release his album debut entitled Get Lifted in 2004.

"Get Lifted is something we work on together, because of our relationship, we unite our voices," he said.

The 45-year-old singer also recounted the origin of the creation of his stage name John Legend, which was influenced by Kanye West. John Legend's real name is John Roger Stephens.

During a session with Kanye, a Chicago poet named J. Ivy, and when she heard me sing on some of Kanye West's song College Dropouts, she said 'ow we'll call you The Legend',' said John Legend.

"I haven't decided to officially rename the stage (at that time), but Kanye did some things that hurt me in that direction. So in the studio I named myself John Legend, introduced myself to the record label as John Legend," he added.

Apart from his career journey, at this concert John Legend also told about his love story with his wife, Chrissy Teigen. He also talked about the making of the song All Of Me specially made for Chrissy and sung for the first time by her when they got married in 2013.