John Legend shined his light at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City as June came to a close, regaling the intimate crowd with stories of life, love, loss, and lessons learned from his childhood through his illustrious R&B career.
The EGOT has long used his music as a means of therapy and catharsis. In his latest intimate concert series, simply titled An Evening With John Legend, the crooner shares acoustic songs and accompanying stories in a unique one-man-show experience.
While many may expect a rotation of the greatest hits that made him a 12-time Grammy winner, this show finds Legend stripped down, no accompaniment, no dancers, no grand graphics and stage production – just a man with a piano and a life of transformative experiences and rich memories to share.
Among those experiences: his strict religious upbringing, discovering his love for music in the church band, and how depression and addiction rocked his family and shook his late childhood. He later details his earliest big breaks into the industry when he was still just John R. Stevens, playing an iconic riff of piano instrumentation on Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation album, before eventually being dubbed “The Legend” by Kanye West and becoming an R&B phenom in his own right.
Legend’s revealing show kicked off a weekend of celebration for the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, which has undergone an overhaul in recent years. Widely known as the premier entertainment destination of New Jersey, the Atlantic City jewel features luxurious hotel rooms and suites atop its expansive casino, which now also features simultaneous
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