Legend won the Hal David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007, and in the spring of 2015 both the Academy Award for Best Original Song and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for his co-write ‘Glory’, from the film Selma (2014). Legend’s tally of Grammy Awards to date stands at 10, and in 2017 he won a Tony Award for co-producing Jitney for the Broadway stage.
He played Jesus Christ in NBC’s 2018 staging of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, for which he received a Primetime Emmy nomination as an actor and won for his production role on the show, making him one of 15 people and the first black man to have won the EGOT (one of an elite group of musicians who has won the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards, often known by the portmanteau of the first three letters of those awards). He is the second youngest person to have achieved this. Since 2019, Legend has been a coach on The Voice and was champion of the 16th season.