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Hugh Sheridan is seen celebrating with George Michael

Hugh Sheridan is seen celebrating with George Michael.

Australian actor, the best in Packed To Rafters is known for performinging Ben allegedly enjoyed a night out with singer Michael in Sydney on Saturday after nightclub owner Justin Hemmes introduced them.

The pair allegedly met at The Ivy, then they went after celebrating the Good Vibrations which take place at Hemmes' pub.

According to the Daily Telegraph Sheridan told, "It was amazing to meet a music legend like George Michael."

George Michael buy a luxury new home in Australia

According to the report George Michael has buy a luxury new home in Australia he paid 3.9 pounds. When Michael performed in this country kindly this year he fell in love with this country so buy a home in this country.

The home is an ocean view property on the Whales Beach peninsula, near Sydney.

The beautiful house have five bedrooms, about scale open living room, dining room and kitchen area as well as forever swimming pool.

George Michael: Judge on the X-Factor

Is it a diversion or the truth? A couple of days ago.

A source said, "George Michael had been offered a judging place the U.S. version of The X-Factor saying "George is going to take the job. It's an amazing opportunity to get back in the limelight and reverse his recent bad spell"."

Simon Cowell moved the U.S. version of American Idol so now he could side on the X Factor panel, he has told, "(Michael) will not be a judge on the U.S. The X Factor".

The actually question is, Is Cowell telling the truth or did Michael's spokesman talk out of turn and Cowell is just trying keep up the suspense by denying the statement?

George Michael insert into drug rehab

George Michael has inserted on Monday to the rehab just days after appearing in court and pleading guilty to driving while under the determine of drugs. Michael has wrote on his website that he has checked into a London clinic for 14-day detox program in this last weekend. Michael said he's also getting ongoing drug guidance several times a weekend.

He wrote, "Personal problems which I had tried to deal with myself had clearly got the good of me".

George Michael held after car crashes into shop

Into a shop Singer George Michael was arrested after his car crashed.
The former Wham! star, 47, who was banned for driving for two years in June 2007, is thought to have crashed into a branch of Snappy Snaps footage store near his home in Hampstead, north London.
Mr Michael was held by police on suspicion of being unfit to drive after the alleged incident in the early hours of Sunday morning.
A police spokesperson said: "Police were called at about 3.35 a.m. on Sunday, July 4 to a report of a vehicle in collision with a building.
"Officers attended and a man aged in his 40s was arrested on suspicion of being unfit to drive. He was taken to a north London police station and later bailed pending further inquiries to a date in mid August."
The Careless Whisper star's spokesman refused to comment.
A spokesman for Snappy Snaps confirmed damage to the shop but said they had not been told who was arrested.
In June 2007, Mr Michael was sentenced to 100 hours community service over the next 12 months, disqualified from driving for two years and ordered to pay £2,325 in costs.
He had admitted driving while unfit, saying he was guilty due to a combination of tiredness and taking prescription drugs.
The star was found slumped at the wheel of his stationary Mercedes car at a road junction in north London in the early hours of October 2006, after witnesses called police about his erratic driving.

George Michael partying too hard in Sydney to go-go

George Michael has shown some true old-style charm on his visit to Sydney and will extend his stay in our fair city because he's having such a good time - especially at the Mardi Gras, where he hung out with regular punters instead of VIPs.

Michael put on one of the best shows ever seen in Sydney on Friday night before 40,000 fans, and later told his crew that it was one of the most enjoyable performances on the international tour and that he got a huge buzz from the crowd in his first visit since 1988.

The singer was not going to miss Saturday night's parade, and was invited to a VIP Foxtel party at Taylor Square but never made it - instead drinking and chatting with locals in various bars. He popped into Oxford St's Coco Cubano with a group of friends and ordered mojitos.
"People went up and said hello and he told them he was on the way to a VIP party upstairs," reported bar owner Tony Melhem.

But he didn't go, later making it to the Oxford hotel.

"He was having a drink and I said hello and we chatted for a while and he told me he was loving Sydney and will extend his stay. He was Mr Down-To-Earth," a partygoer told us.
A tour party source said Michael would fly to Melbourne for his show on Wednesday, then come back to Sydney to stay and has not confirmed a departure date.
"He loves being low-key and relaxed and has been so nice since he's been here, so it's no surprise he chose to blend in at Mardi Gras," the source said.

That left Molly Meldrum and Charlotte Dawson as the biggest names at Foxtel's party.
"I've been to Rio and this is up there," Molly said of the parade. "It's astonishing."

Elton John and David Furnish say George Michael is 'in a bad way'

Elton John's civil partner David Furnish has expressed his concern for George Michael, who recently admitted that he has smoked crack cocaine in the past.Furnish, speaking to Victoria Derbyshire on BBC Radio 5 live, said that numerous friends of Michael's have been in touch with him and John about helping the former singer."They're saying that they're very concerned," Furnish explained. "A lot of people are saying it to us, we get it very very regularly, that they are concerned about his health, concerned about his state of mind and his wellbeing and that, as Elton has been there and experienced sobriety now for 19 years, that perhaps he's best positioned to be able to help out.

"In an interview with the Guardian published on Saturday (December 5), Michael admitted that he had been smoking crack cocaine at the time of his arrest on London's Hampstead Heath in September 2008."Was I? On that occasion? Yeah," Michael said, before refusing to reveal when he last took the drug. He went on to attack John for wanting to help him, saying: "Elton just needs to shut his mouth and get on with his own life.

"Responding to that criticism, Furnish told Derbyshire's show that he and John simply want to look out for Michael."The difficult thing for Elton and me is a lot of George's friends keep calling us saying, 'You have to do something, George is in a bad way, he's in a bad state.' We're only reacting to what his close friends say to us. I respect George, I love George, I think he's a huge talent. I just hope he's fine."

Rooney George Michael

Rooney George Michael, 84, died on Thursday Oct. 29. Born in West New York, he lived in West Milford for the past 47 years. He was employed as a vacuum plater for Peerless Roll Leaf Co. in Union City, and later as a security guard for Meldisco Co. in Mahwah before retiring.
Mr. Rooney was a Navy veteran of World War II. He was the beloved father of Patricia Duleba of Maplewood, Alice Winters, Carol Hill and Michael Rooney of Hewitt, brother of Dorothy Calebotta of Bergenfield, and had eleven grandchildren and four great grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife, Frances Rooney, in 2008.
Mr. Rooney’s funeral service was on Monday, Nov. 2 at the Richards Funeral Home in West Milford. His interment is at Cedar Heights Cemetery in West Milford.

Award to DJ Jonathan Ross, George Presents

U.K George Michael led the salutes. TV and radio personality Jonathan Ross at the annual Music Industry Trusts' Award ceremony, held Monday night, 2nd Nov., at London's Grosvenor House Hotel. Awarded the accolade in recognition of his services to music broadcasting, Ross was presented with the prestigious award by George Michael. "Jonathan and I are from very similar stock," said Michael before welcoming Ross to the stage. "We have some very similar aspects to our careers in that we both still have our hair, we're both still on the telly and we're both adored by public and press alike." Holding his award up to the crowd, Ross said, "…it's what it represents and I'm touched and I don't feel worthy."

George Michael dumped by lover

George Michael split from his boyfriend. Kenny Goss walked out on the 'Faith' singer last Christmas after 13 years together. The pair have been living apart ever since, but friends and family have kept the break up a secret because they fear George is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Kenny is thought to have ended the relationship after George, 46, was arrested in the public toilets on London's Hampstead Heath and charged with possessing drugs last year. One pal told Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper: "Kenny had given George many chances. But after the Hampstead Heath incident he said he couldn't take any more. Everyone knew George wasn't just in there to do drugs the place is well known as a place to pick up men."Despite George saying they had an open relationship, Kenny never agreed with George's urges to go out cruising for other men, or with his excessive use of cannabis. He is embarrassed by what George had put him through."They had been due to marry on their 10th anniversary back in 2006, but Kenny told him it was off unless he changed his ways. But it seems George just couldn't."The split has reportedly turned George into a "hermit" who is addicted to computer games. He has postponed all his work commitments and stays in his north London mansion for days at a time.A friend said: "When Kenny left him, George wasn't in the right frame of mind for anything. He seemed to become actually depressed and no one could talk him out of it."George would get up at 2pm, have a couple of cannabis joints, and play computer games until 7am, then do it all again the next day."George also has all these ideas about going back on the road but no one knows if his state of mind will take it. The split has hit him hard."

GEORGE MICHAEL - LA ROUX PINES FOR FAITH-FUL DAD

La Roux singer Elly Jackson is such a huge fan of George Michael she wishes he was her father.
La Roux singer Elly Jackson wants George Michael to be her dad.
The 'Bulletproof' star admires the pop story who was arrested earlier this year following a car crash so much she wishes she had grown up with him.
She said: "I love George Michael. I want him to be my dad. Even the Land Rover incident just made him more endearing."
Elly recently lives in South London with her mother actress Trudie Goodwin, who is famous for playing Sergeant June Ackland in UK TV police drama 'The Bill' and insists she would rather "live in a bin" than move anywhere else.
She added: "Move? I'd rather live in a bin. I've got four actually close old friends, I can walk to all their houses and my sister lives in walking distance. No one recognises me here. If I lived somewhere else in London I'd get recognised all the time."

George Harrison's widow wins razor wire planning battle

Rodney Bewes , the television comedy actor and star of The Likely Lads, had objected to Olivia Harrison's proposal to install a new barbed wire fence around her £20 million pounds mansion, citing a series of injuries to his pet cat Maurice.
Bewes and other neighbours of Friar Park, the sprawling mansion where George Harrison was once stabbed by an intruder, had tried to persuade their local council to refuse permission for the new razor sharp fence.
Letters to the local authority likened the perimeter fence to a German prisoner of war camp.
However, now district council planners have given Mrs Harrison permission to top the fence with the sharp razor wire.
Despite losing the fight, civic leaders in Henley-on-Thames said they were hopeful they might still be able to get the imposing security scaled down by appealing directly to Mrs Harrison.
Mr Bewes complained that the razor wire opposite his home had nearly killed his six-year-old pet cat Maurice and forced him to fork out thousands of pounds in vet's bills.
In a letter to the local council, the 70 year old actor asked: "Is the razor wire necessary?
"Our cat has been caught three times, once severing an artery and we know of three other cats who have been injured."
He added: "My biggest saddness (sic) though is coming home and seeing razor wire and all it stands for in the world."
Mrs Harrison's home, Friar Park, nestles on a hill at the edge of upmarket Henley-on-Thames, Oxon. Hidden behind the imposing fence are 38 acres of lavish landscaped gardens and a picturesque lake.
Mr Bewes' wife Daphne said there was little they could do about the council's decision and would not be mounting an appeal.
"You can't argue with the council," she said.
"Lots of people have nice houses around here and none of us wants to be burgled but we don't all go and put razor wire up.
"The new wire is going to be latticed which will probably take Maurice's eye out. You can't tell a cat not to be stupid and climb over it."
Talking about the fence she added: "I just think it's wrong. It looks like a war zone.
"We are neighbours and it is nothing personal but it is just the principle - there are a lot of lovely houses around here that don't have it."
In their objection to the plans, neighbours John and Anna Rayner commented that it was "just downright unneighbourly to impose Stalag Luft 17 on the residents around Friar Park."
Town councillors in Henley voted unanimously to oppose the planned new fence and wire.
In 1999 George Harrison and his wife came close to death when a schizophrenic man, Michael Abram, broke into the gothic mansion and stabbed the musician.
Olivia Harrison smashed the 33 year old Liverpudlian attacker around the head with a poker and a table lamp and Abram was detained and treated before later being released against her wishes.
It had been pointed out that fencing and razor wire was around the house prior to the attack and did not prevent it.

George Michael, Where Have You Gone?

George Michael picked up the telephone Monday morning to call Sonny Jurgensen, his friend and former Channel 4 colleague, to rehash the Redskins' 9-7 victory over the woebegone St. Louis Rams on Sunday. They spoke for 40 minutes, and when they finished, Michael said he told Jurgensen, "If that (conversation) had been on the air, it would have been some great television."
Sadly, that chat will never look the light of day. Nor will Michael's face be seen or his blustery "now hear this" be heard anytime soon on local television, doing what he always did better than most -- asking provocative questions and often eliciting interesting and occasionally outrageous, newsmaking responses from anyone within range of his booming voice.
That memorable voice is mostly silent these days over the Washington airwaves, heard only occasionally when a local radio sports talk host gets him as a guest for a quick hit, as WTEM's Tony Kornheiser did last week. But as for local television, which Michael often dominated as Channel 4's sports director from 1980 to 2007, he's been a TV no-show since his last "Redskins Report" aired in December.
Michael, 70, still lives in Montgomery County and spends most of his time these days researching old baseball photographs, a longtime passion that includes purchasing old newspaper photo libraries with several partners. He still lookes a lot of football, the better to stay up on the sport whenever radio hosts from around the country call him for an on air opinion.
Two years ago, Michael was the victim of an industry-wide budget-slashing movement in the local broadcasting business. Never mind that his nightly sportscasts at 6 and 11 and his popular weekly football and basketball shows often produced high ratings, not to mention more than occasional must look television, a major reason Channel 4 has been No. 1 in the local TV news market for years.
"Everything has changed," Michael said in a telephone interview Monday afternoon. "Why has it changed? Because whatever you do, quality doesn't actually matter. It's whether you kept the cost down. Management doesn't worry about ratings. They worry about the dollars, and I guess I can't argue with that. That's just the way it is now."
Michael left the daily grind at Channel 4 two years ago when he was told his budget would be slashed and he'd have to let go of a number of key people in his sports operation. He still kept his hand in the business with his highly acclaimed "Redskins Report" show featuring panelists Jurgensen, John Riggins and Michael Wilbon during the NFL season, as well as his day-after-game interviews (along with Jurgensen) of the Redskins head coach du jour.
These days, Jim Zorn gets grilled on Comcast SportsNet by Chick Hernandez, a perfectly competent interviewer in his own right. Still, for this viewer, at least, it's just not the same without Michael asking the questions. Obviously all good things eventually come to an end, but Michael's outsize ego and bodacious bluster still ought to be on display -- whether on TV or talk radio -- on a regular basis in this town.
One of the first day-after questions Michael said he would have loved to ask Zorn involved that brutal halfback option pay from the Rams 5-yard line midway through the third quarter, when Clinton Portis overthrew Chris Cooley in the end zone and the Redskins had to kick another field goal.
(By the way, much to his credit, Jurgensen did exactly that in his postgame radio locker room interview with Zorn. Jurgensen told the head coach that if he'd been the quarterback and that play came through his headset, he'd have ignored it and switched to something else. Why pay a quarterback all that money to throw touchdown passes, Jurgensen wondered, then take it out of his hands and allow a running back to heave it in a critical situation?
Just a tad perturbed, Zorn told Jurgensen that he would have benched him for disobeying a direct order, an almost laughable response from a novice play-caller to a Hall of Fame quarterback who called most of his plays over the course of his excellent career. But it also was must-listen radio, a response that was aired several more times on the radio the next day.)
"If I were doing it, I would say to Zorn before we went on the air, 'There are three things today I'm going to ask you that you're probably not going to like,' " Michael said. "But these are the same questions the fans would be asking, and I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't ask you for an answer."

Backstreet Boys (4) vs. George, Guilty Pleasures, Final Four

EW’s Music Mix is searching for the Greatest Guilty Pleasure Musical Act of All Time. With four seeded contestants remaining (see all the matchups), this tournament is continuing to change hearts, minds, and lives, as well as make some people noteworthy agitated! Read/listen to the following, and then cast your vote in the poll after the jump; reader comments will be used from here on out, so we encourage you to also post a comment explaining why you chose the way you did. Note: In case of a tie, please select the artist you feel more ashamed to adore. It was a true clash of the titans, but Backstreet edged out Britney Spears to claim the ’90s teen pop crown.
“I don’t need to exaggerate here, but this is like Sophie’s Choice.” et
“BSB still makes my voice jump two octaves when I hear them sing (especially a capella), even though nobody likes to admit to teenying out… I do. All it takes is those voices and a Carter smirk, and I’m there. damn. So they get my vote.” Anna
“The Backstreet Boys truly are larger than life they represent an entire area to anyone who was a tween/teen in the nineties, girls and boys. Put them on in a room full of nineties kids and in about 10 seconds everyone, EVERYONE will be singing along.” kaitlin
“Now here comes the important question, why do I feel more shamed for a liking the Backstreet Boys? My guilt is not self generated but rather pushed on me by society. We live in a world where it is perfectly acceptable to like a female singer for the size of her breast and not the sound of her voice. However when a male singers is appreciated for their appearance in addition to their talent, there considered less of an artists. In addition, it is okay for men to like someone for only aesthetic reasons, but not for women. This is an unfortunate double standard. If I admit I like the backstreet boys to a coworker, they see at me like I crazy and think I want to grow up. If someone admits they like Britney spears, everyone assume it is because she looks nice in her panties or that they enjoy a watching train wreck. PS. Does this match up remind anyone else of his or her TRL days?” Ms. Car

Michael Moore ponders post-`Capitalism' career with move to fiction films, No more docs?

TORONTO - Michael Moore says he made his latest documentary, "Capitalism: A Love Story," as though it were his last. And it might be.
The George W. Bush antagonist of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and gun-control champion of "Bowling for Columbine" closing up shop? The General Motors jouster of "Roger & Me" and health-care trouper of "Sicko" no longer in the documentary business?
"I'm saying it's a possibility, yeah," Moore said in an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, where "Capitalism" played in advance of its limited release in theaters Sept. 23 and nationwide rollout Oct. 2.
"I've done this for 20 years. I started out by warning people about General Motors, and my whole career has been trying to say the emperor has no clothes here, and we better do something about it," Moore said. "I've been having to sort of knock my head against the wall here for 20 years saying these things.
"Two years ago, I tried to get the health-care debate going, and it did eventually, and now where are we? We may not even have it. What am I supposed to do at a certain point?"
Moore, 55, whose nonfiction projects include the television shows "TV Nation" and "The Awful Truth," is thinking he wants to return to fiction. He wrote and directed one fictional film, the 1995 comedy "Canadian Bacon," starring John Candy in his next-to-last role as an American county sheriff who goes on the warpath after the U.S. president (Alan Alda) tries to boost his sagging image by provoking hostilities with Canada.
The movie was a critical and commercial dud, but Moore said he is anxious to do more narrative flicks. Moore said he has been working on two fiction screenplays while making "Capitalism," a documentary in which he pegs corporate inroads into the federal government during the Reagan years as a key factor in today's economic meltdown.
In "Capitalism," Moore offers a glimpse of the rosier America in which he grew up in Flint, Mich., where his father worked at a spark-plug factory. Moore and his dad revisit the sprawling site of the defunct plant, now just barren lots and demolition debris.
"I had not seen it leveled. It was pretty shocking, actually. I was affected by just standing there," Moore said. "That place represented a good, middle-class living for our family, and it's now surrounded by a town that's dying. Where the only people left there are the people struggling, really struggling, to survive."
The film presents a condo shark brokering deals on foreclosed units and chronicles the despair of people evicted from their homes. It details corporate profiteering through "dead peasant" insurance policies companies take out on employees and captures tongue-tied experts unable to explain investment derivatives that are blamed for much of the economic chaos.
Moore's conclusion: Capitalism doesn't work.
"I started this film before the crash. The crash happens, I'm thinking, oh, somebody's going to start talking about what I'm talking about in this movie," Moore said. "I've yet to see a talk show or read an op-ed where somebody has just named it, just come out and said, `Folks, what has to happen here is capitalism's got to go.' Because we can't have a system where the richest 1 percent own as much as the bottom 95 percent. That just isn't democracy. That's not America."
"Capitalism" goes after the "big enchilada here," the root of problems he's examined in his earlier films and TV shows, Moore said. The sort of film that, if he retired from the documentary field, would stand as a summation of his work.
"Look, I love the movies, I love going to the movies, and I love making movies. I think making a good movie is about telling a good story, and you can do that through fiction or nonfiction," Moore said. "I've made a body of work of nonfiction that I'm very proud of, and like any filmmaker, I'm looking for different challenges, and things that will keep me interested and excited about what I'm doing."
"Capitalism" serves as something of a call to arms for others to step in and fill the void as Moore moves on to other things.
"I think people will be maybe somewhat disappointed because there's so many things we need to deal with right now, and they wish I would make a film about it. But I want other people to make those films," Moore said.
"I am tired of feeling like I'm doing this alone. All through the eight years of Bush, you Google `Bush' and `nemesis' and I'm the first name up. And there aren't a whole lot of other names," Moore said. "It doesn't work with Michael Moore and Sean Penn and Ted Kennedy and a few others. The people have got to get involved in their democracy."

'Monkey' Love George Michael's

Though the latter half of his career has been malevolented by that unfortunate incident in a bathroom a few years back, George Michael was once a pretty big deal. One of the biggest, really, as his eight chart topping singles in the 1980s is a record he shares with the legendary Michael Jackson (though George had three of those singles as half of Wham!). Following his tear from Andrew Ridgeley, Michael scored monolithic hits with songs like "Faith," "Father Figure" and "One More Try."
Though he opened the 1990s with the multi platinum Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, Michael has yet to be able to top the submerging ubiquity of his solo entry Faith. Legal battles with his label and huge spread between albums allowed him to slip off the radar for a while, and both of his comeback albums (1996's Older and 2004's Patience) were received lukewarmly in the U.S. (though he remained a superstar in his native U.K.). But last year he toured North America for the first time in 17 years and was well received by both fans and critics. The tour (and the greatest hits album that attended it) helped to prompt the world just how many hit songs Michael has had in his career. One of those tunes was "Monkey," the final single from Faith and also Michael's last chart topper of the '80s. It climbed up to the top position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart 21 years ago today on August 27, 1988. It replaced Steve Winwood's "Roll With It" at the top of the mound. It stayed there for two weeks before being pushed out by Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine."

And don't forget that George Michael may finally get the VMA respect he deserves, as his clip for "Freedom" is nominated for Best Video (That Should Have Won A Moonman) at this year's Video Music Awards, which air live on Sunday, September 13.

Drunk-driving trouble for George Michael

Has anyone wondered what George Michael has been up to recently? Boy have we got a story.The pop icon was arrested on Friday after being doubtful of driving under the pull. He took a breathalyser test following an collision where he banged into a truck.According to the truck holder Laurie Rowe, Michael had been quitely confuse and had no idea what was going on. He even tried to climb into the cab of Rowe's rig and said something about being alarmed to go to jail. Rowe said the impact was so angry and Michael hit them so hard that he "didn't think he [Michael] would have come through."Back in 2006, Michael has had his agreement renege following an arrest for ugly driving as well.

Experiment of John Legend to continues

MONTREAL -- I reached American neo-soul singer John Legend by phone on Friday, June 26, the day after Michael Jackson's death. So it was difficult to deflect starting our advisement with the topic du jour.
"It's a surreal moment," said Legend, real name John Stephens. "It's a sad moment. It makes you reflect on all the great music he's made, how effectual he was in my life, and to so many other people . . . He was the quintessential pop star.
"Some of his music is some of my favourite music of all time I truly always acknowledge his music."
While Legend may not have taken straight cues from Jackson's music or aureate stage persona, he has been expanding his sound over the course of his three solo albums, as understanded by the title of last year's Evolver.
The album opens with the electro influenced "Green Light," featuring OutKast's Andre 3000 dropping whimsical come on rhymes while Legend purr over an uptempo club beat.
"I decided to go in more of an electronic direction," he said of the song. "It prompted me of an '80s jam by George Michael or Prince . . . Andre took it to a whole other level because of his energy, wit and all that."
Elsewhere on the album, Legend dabbles in hip-hop (with pal Kanye West), reggae (with British protege Estelle) and his trademark swooning piano balladry.
Though his specialty is the soulful torch song, the 30 year old singer has always made a point of bringing other things to the table.
"I always felt I was more than the stereotype of me," he said. "'Green Light' was so successful as a single, it highlighted that difference. My albums are all pretty well ) 'Ordinary People.' That came to define the larger public's perception of who I was."
Legend's Grammy-winning 2004 debut Get Lifted also featured more hip-hop-oriented material, including the songs "Number One" (featuring Kanye West) and "I Can Change" (featuring Snoop Dogg). The album ended up selling a whopping three million copies, making him a household name in the expantion.
But he hardly had come out of nowhere. Legend had been a songwriter, pianist and guest vocalist on the R&B/hip-hop circuit for years, playing piano on Lauryn Hill's 1999 smash "Everything Is Everything," and appearing on songs by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, among others.
His big break came when his old college roommate Devo Springsteen introduced him to his cousin West in 2001. Get Lifted was released on West's Good Music label.
"I met him in Harlem at a performance I had done at Jimmy's Uptown," Legend said. "(Springsteen) thought we would work well together. He was right. We met before either of us was famous, and helped each other. When he airfare up, he helped me get a record deal."
"He's a genius. He's one of the most impressive creative minds I've ever worked with. I think he's been one of the most influential artists in our generation."
Legend has been fostering some young talent of his own, signing British R&B/reggae/hip-hop singer Estelle to his Homeschool label and recruiting West to act on the hit (and again, Grammy-winning) single "American Boy," produced by Will.i.am.
"I just felt like she deserved to be a star," Legend said. "As a fan, I wanted to hear more music from her, the right music that I as a fan would accept. So I signed her to my label, I helped make her last album and we're working on the next one."
He is also working on the appearance album of his younger brother Vaughn Anthony, who is opening for him on his current tour.
"He's an R&B artist with a voice similar to mine," he said, "but with his own style, which is a bit harder(-edged)."
Though he started playing piano at age four, it's in his singing and songwriting that Legend takes the most pride, and rightly so. He has a knack for making engaging music.
Even as he indulges in heartstring tugging soul songs, a sense of humour runs through his lyrics. "Number One," from his debut, featured the uproariously unapologetic line, "You can't say I don't love you / Just because I cheat on you."
"I'm always trying to tell a good story," Legend said, "in a way that's relatable and that people can connect with. I want it to feel clever and unique, and also universal and familiar. I'm trying to find the right balance. I know it when I hear it."