The polished R&B crooner and the elusive indie-folk auteur joined forces to create Legend's new album, 'My Favorite Dream.'
Two decades after the release of his debut album, John Legend was at a point where children’s music was probably inevitable. The smooth-voiced EGOT winner had already moved beyond his trademark R&B to make a Christmas record and compose his first musical; he’d already put in several seasons as a coach on “The Voice” and taken a gig portraying the son of God in a live TV adaptation of “Jesus Christ Superstar.
” Legend sent voice-and-piano demos he cut at home to Stevens, who lives and works in New York’s Catskill Mountains; Stevens says Legend gave him “total creative freedom” to devise arrangements for the songs, which led the producer to thoughts of “Sesame Street” and the Muppets but also of Stevie Wonder, Henry Mancini, the Beatles and Serge Gainsbourg.
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