JOHN LEGEND RELEASES NEW SONG “ACTIONS”

FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM TO BE RELEASED THIS YEAR

John Legend today released his new song “Actions.” The track follows his latest #1 song “Conversations in the Dark,” both of which are going to appear on his upcoming album to be released this year.

“Actions” samples David McCallum’s “The Edge,” which is also featured on Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s “The Next Episode,” and was written by Legend with Warren Felder, Alex Niceforo and Keith Sorrells, and was produced by Oak for GO! Music/The Orphanage.

You can listen to “Actions” HERE and watch the lyric video HERE.

The EGOT winner teased “Actions” earlier this week during his “Together At Home” concert series standing together to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with the World Health Organization and Global Citizen.

John’s Bigger Love Tour will kick-off on August 12 and visit more than 25 cities across North America this summer including Toronto and Vancouver. For more information, please visit: www.johnlegend.com.

About John Legend

Multiplatinum artist John Legend has garnered eleven Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and an Emmy Award, making Legend the first African-American man to earn an EGOT. Legend has released six celebrated albums including, Get Lifted (2004), Once Again (2006), Evolver (2008), Love in the Future (2013), Darkness and Light (2016), and A Legendary Christmas (2018). Legend starred in NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert” in 2018, winning an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special and nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor (Limited Series). Legend joined “The Voice” for Season 16 (2019), winning with his mentee Maelyn Jarmon and is currently a judge on Season 18. John is a partner in Get Lifted Film Co., serving as an Executive Producer for “Southern Rites,” “United Skates,” WGN America’s “Underground,” and films “Southside with You” and “La La Land.” As a philanthropist, Legend initiated the #FREEAMERICA campaign in 2015 to change the national conversation surrounding our country’s misguided criminal justice policies and to end mass incarceration.

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