John Legend’s brother Vaughn Anthony readies mixtape, album

<p>Vaughn Anthony is no stranger to the music scene&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The younger brother of R&amp&semi;B crooner&comma; John Legend&comma; is set to release a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;unheardvoicesmag&period;com&sol;category&sol;music&sol;">mixtape<&sol;a> in March of this year entitled <em>Life of a Player<&sol;em> featuring collabs from <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;unheardvoicesmag&period;com&sol;2011&sol;11&sol;02&sol;rick-ross-talks-health-on-106-and-park&sol;">Rick Ross<&sol;a>&comma; Olivia&comma; and Prodigy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Vaughn Anthony is no stranger to the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;unheardvoicesnetworks&period;com">music scene<&sol;a>&comma; having opened for Robin Thicke&comma; India Arie&comma; Raphael Saadiq&comma; and Estelle&comma; and collaborated with Rick Ross &lpar;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s Alright”&rpar; and Ghostface Killah &lpar;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Paragraphs of Love”&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Check out his new single Hold Me Down featuring brother John Legend&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"780" height&equals;"439" data-videoid&equals;"Y3zWkp6-CVw" title&equals;"HOLD ME DOWN"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;Y3zWkp6-CVw"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;Y3zWkp6-CVw&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"HOLD ME DOWN"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;&lbrack;Vaughn&rsqb; has a great voice and a great talent for writing&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;ve seen that grow over time because he just worked so hard at it&comma;&&num;8221&semi; brother John Legend told Billboard&period;com&period; &&num;8220&semi;I think he&&num;8217&semi;s ready now&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Legend officially signed Vaughn Anthony to HomeSchool in November 2007&comma; just weeks after unveiling the label&&num;8217&semi;s first signing&comma; U&period;K&period; singer Estelle&period; Since then&comma; the 28-year-old has cut his teeth as one of Legend&&num;8217&semi;s background vocalists on tour and released a six-track E&period;P&period; on iTunes in 2008 entitled &&num;8220&semi;Mr&period; Everything&period;&&num;8221&semi; A debut album featuring music by the Runners and Phatboi Productions is in the works&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Just being on the road and watching John&comma; it helped me develop a lot&comma;&&num;8221&semi; says Anthony&comma; whose first single will be &&num;8220&semi;In Your Shoes&comma;&&num;8221&semi; a song co-written with his brother and currently featured on his MySpace page&period; &&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s been longer than I&&num;8217&semi;ve wanted to wait&comma; but now I feel like it&&num;8217&semi;s really my time&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;All that experience is kind of what I did when I was with Kanye &lbrack;West&rsqb;&comma;&&num;8221&semi; adds Legend&period; &&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s like an apprenticeship&comma; where you&&num;8217&semi;re learning the ropes before they put the spotlights on you&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s real artist development&comma; and that&&num;8217&semi;s what we do at HomeSchool&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;