Grammy-winning musician, social activist, one half of LA’s most likeable celebrity couple and now a Hollywood actor – John Legend is no ordinary person.
‘Women used to care more about me. Now they care more about my wife,’ says John Legend with a grin. It’s mid-afternoon and we’re sitting at a table in the vast art-deco brasserie of London’s corinthia Hotel. Legend, along with Chrissy Teigen, that thunder stealing wife of his, flew into town yesterday with their baby daughter Luna, and he’s staving off the jet lag with a strong cup of coffee. ‘I’m proud of her,’ he says of Teigen. ‘I’m proud of the impact she’s made by being funny and honest and authentic and charismatic. People want to be friends with Chrissy. And I can see why.’
The cynicism we so often attach to celebrity couples doesn’t seem to apply to Legend and Teigen. Perhaps it’s all the spontaneous LOLZ they share on social media (Legend eating chicken wings off Teigen’s thigh, for instance) or the joint Twitter scuffles with Piers Morgan, but the pair brings a dose of irreverence to life in the public eye that makes it hard not to like them.
But today is not about the Legend-Teigen #relationshipsgoals love-in. Today, Legend is flying solo. After a four-year hiatus, the 37-year-old is returning to music with a new album, Darkness And Light. Tomorrow, he’ll appear on The X Factor to deliver a note-perfect rendition of the album’s headline track Love Me Now. His third record’s name was partly inspired by the birth of his daughter Luna eight months ago, when the song Superfly by Curtis Mayfield was playing in the background as she came into the world. ‘The first lyric of that song is “Darkest of night, with the moon shining bright,”’ he says.
This story is from the February 2017 edition of Marie Claire Malaysia.
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