John Legend’s Daughter Luna Interviews Dad About ‘My Favourite Dream’

John Legend‘s daughter Luna Stephens, his eldest of 4 youngsters with spouse Chrissy Teigen, led her first interview — outdoor of a faculty homework task — with Dad, on behalf of Billboard Circle of relatives.

Younger Luna, age 8, performed the on-camera Q&A like a professional for the most recent episode of Billboard Circle of relatives‘s new video collection of children interviewing their well-known oldsters. Watch the father-daughter dialog within the video that’s observed above.

All of it begins off with lovable small communicate, with Luna negotiating the age she’ll be allowed to get a smartphone (Dad’s leaning towards 16, whilst Luna’s eyeing 9), prior to that specialize in Legend’s Grammy-nominated youngsters’s album, My Favourite Dream.

“I sought after to make a youngsters’s album as a result of now that I’ve 4 youngsters, and I’ve watched all of you guys react to track and fall in love with track in several tactics, I felt like I used to be impressed to jot down an album for my youngsters, and all of the different youngsters which might be available in the market and their oldsters too,” John tells Luna of the gathering, which was once launched on Aug. 30 and is nominated for absolute best youngsters’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 album and extra.

“My favourite factor was once making a song with my spouse and my two oldest youngsters, Luna and Miles. Have you learnt Luna and Miles?” John teases.

All of them sing in combination at the album unmarried “L.O.V.E.,” one of the most authentic youngsters’s songs he wrote for the album he produced with Sufjan Stevens. Recording vocals at the music “was once amusing” and someplace “in between” exhausting and simple, Luna tells her dad all through their convo.

8-year-old Luna no longer handiest sang on “L.O.V.E.,” but in addition designed the artwork for all of the unmarried covers for the My Favourite Dream. Her design paintings could also be observed on hoodies lately to be had on John’s webstore.

“You and I, that’s one of the most tactics we bond with each and every different,” John reminds Luna of their interview. “We draw within the playroom in combination. It was once very herbal so that you can design the one covers for the album. You killed it. You probably did a perfect task.”

“L.O.V.E.” is one in every of Luna’s 3 favourite songs on her dad’s album, along side “At all times Come Again” and “3 Little Birds.”

John stocks “At all times Come Again” as a best pick out. He’s candid about why the music is so non-public to him in his Q&A with Luna.

“I wrote it for you guys,” he tells Luna. “I’ve to shuttle so much for paintings. Mommy has to leave for paintings every now and then. However we’ve all the time been telling you because you have been just a little child that Mommy and Daddy all the time come again. After I wrote that music, it was once very emotional for me since the day I wrote it I used to be in reality leaving to leave for some time, and I performed it for you guys. It’s going to all the time have that more or less sentimental feeling.”

“I take a look at to not depart for greater than two weeks as it feels goodbye once I’m long past for 2 weeks. I believe unhealthy about it every now and then once I depart you. That music makes me really feel higher about it,” John says.

Watch Luna’s complete interview for Billboard Circle of relatives to listen to John’s response to his youngsters’s album being nominated for a Grammy, his ideas at the 20-year anniversary of debut album Get Lifted, what he’s running on subsequent (Broadway track!) and his favourite a part of his task.

My Favourite Dream is to be had to buy or flow now. It’s nominated for absolute best youngsters’s album on the Feb. 2, 2025 Grammy Awards along Fortunate Diaz and The Circle of relatives 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’ International Large Playdate.