John Legend and Andrew Lloyd Webber become the new EGOTs with Emmy Win – Variety

On Sunday, Creative Arts Emmys crowned three new EGOT winners, with John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice being the last to win the top four in the industry.

All three won the coveted title by winning an Emmy for the best special variety of NBC's "Jesus Christ Superstar, Live in Concert", with Legend as producer and Lloyd Webber and Rice as composer and comedian 1970s. They only became the 13th, 14th and 15th players in history to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony, and Legend became the youngest man to do so.

This is the first time that more than two people perform an EGOT in a calendar year. Benj Pasek and Justin Paul were also in the running to win an EGOT Sunday, but lost their Emmy category for the original song of the television version of "A Christmas Story".

Legend, who is also nominated for his Primal Emmys lead / TV performance, won 10 Grammy Awards, an Oscar (in 2015 for the best original song) and a Tony (for the best). ;last year).

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Behind the scenes after the victory, Legend said: "When I entered the music world, I dreamed of winning Grammys and having a lot of success as a musician and selling a lot of records and spinning around of the world. dreamed of winning an EGOT, I did not even know what it was at the time.

He went on to affirm his new work on "Huge Collaborative Efforts" by thanking Ava DuVernay and Common for collaborating in writing the song for "Selma" and his team for his theatrical and musical success . He added, "Tonight it's Jesus Christ Superstar and the reason we won tonight is that first of all, Andrew and Tim created a great job, and we had the privilege of to do on television.

Lloyd joked that he had spent "this afternoon thinking about what I could possibly win if I did not win this exceptional hairdresser? I became very worried but it's fantastic. He also paid tribute to producer Craig Zadan, who died three weeks ago, for the success of the project.

Legend, Lloyd Webber and Rice join previous EGOT winners, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Rodgers, Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Tunick, Robert Lopez, Mike Nichols, and Scott Rudin. Mel Brooks.