Legend's voice is a marvel here - his singing is rich with undertones of gospel, but he doesn't feel the need to over-emote as some pop and urban storm singers. "How 'bout some guitars?" "Show Me" is a slow-burning mid-tempo track that bears a slight resemblance to the Jimi Hendrix ballad "Angel," and Legend's rises and falls on the six-strings and rhythm elegantly. "Enough with the piano," some of you fellows say. Only three guys, maybe - Mick Jagger, Tom Jones, and John Legend - could make it sound like his cheating is really good for the relationship, and he does it in a song that evokes the carefree yet still funky breeziness of Stevie Wonder circa "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" without imitating it.
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And Legend sounds less like a stalker/nutjob, more like a weary just-plain-guy yearning for his baby's lost love. One of those semi-manic "Has anybody here seen that runaway gal of mine" songs - a desperate guy searchin,' searchin.' What make this an atypical song is the domination of keyboards and lush strings and a sing-song-y melody that wouldn't sound out of place on a pre-1970 Beach Boys album. The background vocals are rich and vivid, and even the Leg sounds sanctified, singing about not just the glories and treasures of love but the heartfelt comforts of home and family. 60, .įeaturing the Stephens Family, this Legend track delves even deeper into the waters of gospel (from which so much American music springs). Here is a Whitman's Sampler of some of his dandiest…ĭetails: 7:30 p.m. Add the cool savoir-faire of GQ, and you have the makings of a legend, one with talent to go with his looks-appeal. He can croon like Marvin Gaye at his sweetest and most sly, wax thoughtful and impish like Stevie Wonder, and have a modicum of the street-corner impudence of OutKast or Common. 17, at Comerica Theatre, was born at a nexus, one at which he could forge a union of old school 1960's rhythm & blues, '70s smooth soul and funk, and hip-hop. This Philadelphia soul man, performing Sunday, Aug.
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Singer, songwriter, and keyboard player John Legend was born John Roger Stephens in 1978.