Reception

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wedding entrance

Dinner Time

Violin

A Thousand Years (Violin Cover By Jun Sung Ahn Feat Daniel Jang)

Rihanna - Diamonds

John Legend - All of me (Violin And Guitar Cover - Daniel Jang)

VSQ Performs The Hits of 2014 Vol. 3 is available January 20th

Vitamin String Quartet Performs Fall Out Boy's "Centuries"

Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses - String Quartet Cover

Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - Subito Strings Quartet Cover

Green Light

Green Light (feat. Andre 3000)

Thinking Out Loud - Violin And Piano Cover - Daniel Jang

John Legend is an artist mature beyond his years. He is a crooner in the best possible sense of the word — self-assured, gentle and debonair. For Legend’s sophomore album Kanye West resumes his role as executive producer, but Once Again is a mellower affair than Get Lifted. The songs get their gentility from Legend’s low, cocoa-smooth vocals, which never fail to bring a potentially hyper song to a place of calm. Though Once Again features an impressive assembly of producers — including Craig Street, will.i.am and West (all contributed multiple songs) — Legend is wholly in control of the album’s tone and tempo. The hip-hop underpinnings are balanced by the elegant jazz of “Again” and “Maxine.” “Where Did My Baby Go” is so simple that it feels timeless — it could be a piece of an old album by Arthur Alexander or even Joan Baez, made new again by Legend’s warm breath. “Save Room” is a song that glides so sweetly and effortlessly that it challenges every shred of malice that might be lurking within the listener. Even sweeter is “Slow Dance,” a melody as compact and pretty as a jeweled pocketwatch.

Once Again

Save Room

Get Lifted

Ordinary People

String Arrangement by Sue Aston performed by The Classical Strings Quartet.

Rather Be by Clean Bandit (Arranged by Sue Aston)

Thinking Out Loud Ed Sheeran (Arranged by Sue Aston)

John Legend - Tonight (Best You Ever Had) feat. Ludacris
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Tonight (Best You Ever Had)

Tonight (Best You Ever Had) feat. Ludacris

Manic

Graveyard

Nice To Meet Ya

Vitamin String Quartet Performs Kanye West

Jesus Walks

N***as in Paris

John Legend x Lindsey Stirling: The Violin Remixes

Conversations in the Dark (Violin Remix)

I'm Ready

Daisies

Selfish

Selfish (Alan Walker Remix)

VSQ Performs the Hits of 2020

Say So

VSQ Performs the Hits of 2020, Vol. 2

Blueberry Faygo

Ignorantes (Bonus Track)

Los Angeles, California serves as home base for the concept group called Vitamin String Quartet. The group is made up of studio musicians who are brought together to interpret and record orchestra style covers of music from all types of genres ranging metal, techno, country, pop, rock and hip-hop dance music. While the quartet uses a wide assortment of artists and instruments, one fairly constant member of the group is violinist Tom Tally. Tally has been intimately involved in the composing, arranging and conduction of many songs on approximately 50 of the albums that have been recorded by the group. While the group is referred to as a string quartet, the reality is that more individuals are usually involved, using instruments such as violins, cellos, percussion, brass and woodwinds. The group was originally brought together in 1999 as an experimental project. They wanted to determine the effects of using classical style instruments to create new and different sounds on popular recordings. Early on, the FM broadcast station WWHK in Concord, NH would play the group's music 24 hours a day, every day, for a period of time. The popularity of the group's music has led to the music being featured on TV and in the movies. Credits include So You Think You Can Dance (2008), TV show The Vampire Diaries (2010), the 100th episode of Gossip Girl and the fifth season finale of Modern Family (2014). Throughout the years, the group has been involved in the recording of over 200 different albums. In 2009, the group stepped out of the box a bit and recorded some original material provided by some of the various musicians on the album Per_Versions.