John Legend’s 8-Year-Old Daughter Luna Interviews Dad About ‘My Favorite Dream’: Billboard Family Q&A
John Legend‘s daughter Luna Stephens, his eldest of 4 youngsters with spouse Chrissy Teigen, led her first interview — outdoor of a faculty homework project — with Dad, by and for Billboard Family.
Younger Luna, pace 8, carried out the on-camera Q&A like a professional for the original episode of Billboard Community‘s new video series of kids interviewing their famous parents. Watch the father-daughter conversation in the video that’s visible above.
All of it begins off with adorable miniature communicate, with Luna negotiating the pace she’ll be allowed to get a smartphone (Dad’s leaning towards 16, presen Luna’s eyeing 9), ahead of that specialize in Legend’s Grammy-nominated youngsters’s magazine, My Favourite Dream.
“I wanted to make a children’s album because now that I have four kids, and I’ve watched all of you guys react to music and fall in love with music in different ways, I felt like I was inspired to write an album for my kids, and all the other kids that are out there and their parents too,” John tells Luna of the gathering, which used to be excepted on Aug. 30 and is nominated for best children’s album within the 2025 Grammy Awards.
Luna feedback on how cool this is and delves into Dad’s inspiration for the identify of My Favourite Dream, his favourite a part of making the magazine and extra.
“My favorite thing was singing with my wife and my two oldest children, Luna and Miles. Do you know Luna and Miles?” John teases.
All of them sing in combination at the magazine unmarried “L.O.V.E.,” one of the vital untouched youngsters’s songs he wrote for the magazine he produced with Sufjan Stevens. Recording vocals at the track “was fun” and someplace “in between” brittle and simple, Luna tells her dad throughout their convo.
8-year-old Luna no longer most effective sang on “L.O.V.E.,” but in addition designed the artwork for the entire unmarried covers for the My Favourite Dream. Her design paintings may be visible on hoodies recently to be had on John’s webstore.
“You and I, that’s one of the ways we bond with each other,” John reminds Luna of their interview. “We draw in the playroom together. It was very natural for you to design the single covers for the album. You killed it. You did a great job.”
“L.O.V.E.” is one in all Luna’s 3 favourite songs on her dad’s magazine, together with “Always Come Back” and “Three Little Birds.”
John stocks “Always Come Back” as a govern pick out. He’s candid about why the track is so private to him in his Q&A with Luna.
“I wrote it for you guys,” he tells Luna. “I have to travel a lot for work. Mommy has to go away for work sometimes. But we’ve always been telling you since you were a little baby that Mommy and Daddy always come back. When I wrote that song, it was very emotional for me because the day I wrote it I was actually leaving to go away for a while, and I played it for you guys. It will always have that kind of sentimental feeling.”
“I try not to leave for more than two weeks because it feels so long when I’m gone for two weeks. I feel bad about it sometimes when I leave you. That song makes me feel better about it,” John says.
Attend to Luna’s complete interview for Billboard Community to listen to John’s response to his youngsters’s magazine being nominated for a Grammy, his ideas at the 20-year per annum of debut magazine Get Lifted, what he’s operating on then (Broadway tune!) and his favourite a part of his process.
My Favourite Dream is to be had to buy or current now. It’s nominated for perfect youngsters’s magazine on the Feb. 2, 2025 Grammy Awards along Fortunate Diaz and The Community Jam Band’s Brillo, Brillo!, Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats’ Creciendo, Rock for Youngsters’s Cast Rock Revival and Divinity Roxx and Divi Roxx Children’ Global Large Playdate.