John Legend Lives Up To His Name

glamour.com:

Glamour. “You can't be a one-hit wonder if you call yourself Legend, and I was calling myself that before I even had a record deal.”But in the midst of his biggest year yet, Legend finally seems ready to declare himself worthy of the title.

He describes the process of creating his eighth studio album Legend as “connecting all the dots” of his career: a study of every song he's written and every story he's collected along the way.

Now, it's all coming to fruition. In tandem with the release, he's wrapping up his first Vegas residency—a two-hour show that spans his entire discography.

Plus, he's expecting with his wife (and former Glamour ) Chrissy Teigen. “That period was the most prolific and productive period of my life,” he says. “I've never written this much music in this amount of time.