![]() John Legend (nee Stephens) grew up in Ohio, surrounded by every musical influence from gospel to hip-hop. I just started mumbling along to it, finding my place in the melody and it worked for me." I just knew it was a nice organ sound and wanted to write to it. As John recalls, "will brought the sample. Breezy and sexy, "Save Room" is a joyful, cool love song, inspired by an old AM radio single, "Stormy," by the Classics IV (a 60's Top 40 band best-known for "Spooky"). Once Again, John's new album, is many things, chief among them, it's a pop/soul album fueled by intelligence, intuition, sensuality, spirit and a creativity made possible when Raphael Saadiq, Kanye West, Craig Street and will.i.am brought the lead single, "Save Room," to John. Driven in part by the hit singles "Ordinary People" and "Used To Love U," Get Lifted was a critical and commercial triumph, earning John an astounding eight Grammy nominations - he won Best New Artist, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance ("Ordinary People") and Best R&B album - and selling more than three million copies worldwide. In 2004, John Legend (then known primarily as an in-demand all-star studio session man) stepped into the solo spotlight as a premier singer-songwriter-pianist-performer in his own right with his debut album Get Lifted.
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