However, John Legend is not the singer’s real name.
In fact, his actual name is something much more ordinary.
As a child, he honed that incredible voice with the church choir, according toBiography.
And that’s whena nickname was bornthat worked perfectly as a stage name.
“The first guy to call me that was J. Ivy.
He’s a spoken word artist from Chicago.
“We were all in the studio together.
And it just really was in our little circle.”
“Kanye put a mixtape out, and he called me John Legend on the mixtape.
The rest his singing career, his awards, andhis marriage to Chrissy Teigen is history.
