John Legend becomes first African-American to achieve EGOT status

Singer John Legend has become the youngest person to become an official EGOT winner.

An EGOT winner is someone who has bagged an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony award.

The 39-year-old took home his first Emmy on Sunday at the 2018 Creative Arts Emmys for his role as a producer of Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, which won outstanding live variety special at the ceremony, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter.

The 'All of Me' hitmaker has a whopping 10 Grammy Awards to his name and in 2015, he won the Oscar for Best Original Song for 'Glory,' which was featured in the movie Selma.

Legend took home a Tony Award in 2017 as the co-producer of Jitney, which won for Best Revival of a Play.

His wife, a television host and model Chrissy Teigen, took to Twitter to express her happiness. She shared a picture of Legend, along with his fellow JCS producers Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, who have also become members of the prestigious EGOT club.

EGOT GOATS pic.twitter.com/WDFKGRop6n

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 10, 2018

With this win, John Legend has tied with Robert Lopez to become the youngest artist to achieve the EGOT status. He is also the first black person to get into the coveted club.

“When I got into the music business it was a dream of mine to win Grammys and have plenty of success as a musician and sell lots of records and tour around the world as a performer, but I never had a dream of winning an EGOT, I didn’t even know what that was at the time,” said Legend during backstage interview with Variety.

(With Agencies Input)