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What It's Like To Be a First-Generation College Student (w/ John Legend)

What It's Like To Be a First-Generation College Student (w/ John Legend)

Update: 2020-04-22

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Before he was an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony-winning musician, John Legend was a self-described "fish out of water"—the first in his family to go to college. In an intimate interview, John shares the rarely told story of how we went from attending an Ivy-League school, to dabbling in business consulting, to finally achieving his dreams in the music industry.

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