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An Evening of Music and Discussion with John Legend
Venue: Burruss Auditorium, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, February 23, 2012
Time: 7:30 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Speaking Engagements
Cost:
Pre-Sale: VT Students: $10.00 General Public: $20.00

Day Of Show: $20.00 for everyone

Description:
R&B Superstar John Legend will be performing live at Virginia Tech's Burruss Auditorium on Thursday, February 23rd. John Legend will also be speaking with the audience.

Recording artist, concert performer and philanthropist John Legend has won nine Grammy awards and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people.

John launched his career as a session player and vocalist, contributing to best-selling recordings by Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys, Jay-Z and Kanye West before recording his own unbroken chain of Top 10 albums -- Get Lifted (2004), Once Again (2006), and Evolver (2008) --each of them reaching #1 on the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop charts.

John's debut album, Get Lifted, earned eight Grammy nominations; won Best New Artist, Best R&B album and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for Ordinary People while selling more than three million copies worldwide. His follow-up album, Once Again, earned an RIAA platinum certification and a Grammy award for "Heaven", which also won Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. In 2008, John released Evolver, his third Top 10 album and embarked on an extensive world tour with his ten-piece band.

Most recently, John and the band The Roots released Wake Up! (2010), a compilation of music from the 60's and 70's all with an underlying theme of awareness, engagement and social consciousness which won two Grammy Awards for Best R&B Album and Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. The album is highlighted with tracks like "Little Ghetto Boy" by Donny Hathaway and Baby Huey and the Babysitters' "Hard Times." Wake Up! also includes John’s original composition "Shine," which won a Grammy award for Best R&B Song and is featured in Oscar award winner Davis Guggenheim’s domestic education reform documentary Waiting for ‘Superman.’

Throughout his career, John has worked to make a difference in the lives of others. In 2007, John Legend launched the Show Me Campaign (ShowMeCampaign.org), an initiative that uses education to break the cycle of poverty.

John was awarded the 2010 BET Humanitarian of the Year award, the CARE Humanitarian Award for Global Change in June 2009 and received the 2009 Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award by Africare.

For more information, visit: http://www.johnlegend.com/us/home/

Tickets will be available online at: http://www.studentcenters.vt.edu/tickets/events.php and by calling: 540-231-5615.

The doors open at 6:30 pm and the show begins at 7:30 pm.

This event is sponsored by Virginia Tech’s Black Organizations Council, Black Student Alliance, office of Multicultural Programs and Services, Student Government Association, and Virginia Tech Union.

For more information, visit: http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2012/01/011812-dsa-blackhistorymonth.html