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"&amp;#xA0;\r\nAt the 2014 Grammys, John Legend charmed us all with his performance of &amp;quot;All of Me,&amp;quot; which he&amp;apos;s sure to do again when his new tour kicks off March 20. Here, the 35-year-old Grammy winning singer and songwriter bares his soul to Us Weekly, revealing 25 things you may not have known about him.\r\n1. I dream all the time that I can fly.&amp;#xA0;\r\n2. I&amp;apos;m from Springfield, Ohio.&amp;#xA0;\r\n3. My parents are both tailors.\r\n4. As a kid, I wanted to be a musician, but also aspired to be Andy Griffith&amp;apos;s lawyer character, Ben Matlock.&amp;#xA0;\r\n5. My wife, Chrissy Teigen, is the expert cook, but I make a soulful mac &amp;apos;n&amp;apos; cheese.\r\n\r\n6. I was a wedding singer as a teenager.&amp;#xA0;\r\n7. I&amp;apos;m a big college-football fan. I&amp;apos;ve delayed my stage time to see the end of a close Ohio State game!&amp;#xA0;\r\n8. In related news, my top tour-bus pastime is playing Madden 25.&amp;#xA0;\r\n9. I took my first piano lesson at age 4.&amp;#xA0;\r\n10. I have an English bulldog named Puddy and a French one called Pippa.&amp;#xA0;\r\n11. I was homeschooled for several years.\r\n12. I met Michael Jackson on a trip to Bahrain.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n13. I majored in English.\r\n14. My first paid acting gig was as one of Kyra Sedgwick&amp;apos;s lovers in 2005&amp;apos;s Loverboy.&amp;#xA0;\r\n15. I&amp;apos;m &amp;quot;Uncle Johnny&amp;quot; to my eight nieces and nephews.\r\n16. I took my first plane ride at age 16.&amp;#xA0;\r\n17. I mostly read nonfiction.\r\n18. Chrissy and I married exactly seven years after we met.&amp;#xA0;\r\n19. I once won a spelling bee.\r\n\r\n20. I want to visit India and Eastern Europe someday.&amp;#xA0;\r\n21. I was my high school&amp;apos;s student-body president and prom king. Chrissy laughs when I bring this up!&amp;#xA0;\r\n22. I played piano on Lauryn Hill&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;Everything Is Everything.&amp;quot;\r\n23. My favorite music to set the mood is by Marvin Gaye. Hopefully your favorite is by yours truly?\r\n24. Before every show, I eat half a rotisserie chicken.&amp;#xA0;\r\n25. I have red wine backstage, but I almost never drink it because it&amp;apos;s not great for my voice. When I&amp;apos;m off tour, I try to make up for lost time!&amp;#xA0;\r\n&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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