He's Obama's "Voice of Reason" in this Jib Jab Viral Video

If you recall, last year Gabriel Mann (C'95, Off the Beat) was the voice of Obama in Jib Jab's "Time for Some Campaigning." 

In this new Jib Jab video, Gabe is now the "voice of reason" at the beginning of the piece (the first 20 seconds of the clip).

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These 2 Penn Alumni Interview John Legend

In light of his new recently released Evolver album, John Legend (C'99, Counterparts) was interviewed by 2 different Penn alumni for 2 different mediums.

Last week, Penn alum and WPIX Entertainment Reporter Emily Frances interviewed John (see video above).  Emily filled me in on some John Legend tidbits that I didn't know:

• Legend is a musical prodigy. 
• He started playing the piano at the age of 4 and he started attending the University of Pennsylvania when he was only 16-years-old. 
• To fit in with the college crowd, he joined an acapella group (Counterparts). 
• Legend was the first in his family to attend college and after he graduated, he worked at Boston Consulting Group for 3 years in NY while he was trying to make it.
• He was an English major and lived in Butcher his freshman year. 

Then Jillian Ivey (C'06, Kelly Writer's House) sat down with John Legend earlier this month for the  Phillyist blog to talk with him about his new album.  In the interview, John talks about his new album and also talks about whether he'll be returning to Penn for the Counterparts 10th reunion this spring and why he loves Philly so much.  Check out her article here

Listen to Evolver tracks here

John Legend - Evolver - If You're Out There (remember when he performed this on campus HERE for the Obama Rally?)


John Legend - Evolver (album)


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Gabriel Mann's Music Featured in GREY'S ANATOMY Sweet Spot

Did you hear Gabriel Mann (C'95, Off the Beat) and his group The Rescues acoustic version of their song "Crazy Ever After" on last Thursday night's 2 hour season premiere of Grey's Anatomy?

His song was placed in the most emotionally pivotal scene of the show (pertaining to whether a patient's memory comes back.) Warning, if you haven't seen the episode yet, this scene is a spoiler.

Click here to watch the scene at abc.com (minute 25:55)
(after clicking above, on the resulting page, click "launch", click the "Episode 1, Part 2" box, click if you want to see the clip in "standard definition" or "HD streaming" and then you will be brought right to the scene)

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His Music Featured on Thursday's GREY'S ANATOMY!

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Gabriel Mann (C'95, Off the Beat) and his group The Rescues have an acoustic version of their song "Crazy Ever After" which will be featured on this Thursday's 2 HOUR SEASON PREMIERE of Grey's Anatomy (9/25)!

Gabe and The Rescues will also have their song "Sweetspot" featured in the film The Lucky Ones starring Rachel McAdams and Tim Robbins which premieres this Friday, September 26th!

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John Legend Performs at National Democratic Convention!

Did you see John Legend (C'99, Counterparts) perform his hit song  "Yes We Can" with will.i.am at last night's Democratic National Convention?   Check it out in the moving video above! 

On that note, as you may recall, John debuted this song at Penn when he rallied on campus for Obama back in April. Watch this great video here!

It's clear that John is getting some serious national exposure these days with his involvement in this campaign.  If you didn't see, John also did an interview yesterday with Paul Williams on MSNBC at the Democratic National Convention. Watch the video below and find out how many millions of people saw his "Yes We Can" video when he posted it on youtube!

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Gabriel Mann's Music Gets Supersized for the Olympics

Penn is being represented in the Olympics in more ways than one.

Yesterday, Susan Francia (C'04) was one of the eight who won the gold in rowing for the United States.

There's also news of another Penn alumnus who has been part of the Olympics stage as well.

If you've been watching the Olympics, chances are you've seen Gabriel Mann's  (C'95, Off the Beat) work...or maybe tivo'd right through it.


Gabe wrote music for a big McDonald's Olympics commercial, which  per Gabe is "the one with the breakfast chicken sandwich and a bunch of olympians talking about how awesome mcdonalds breakfast chicken sandwich is".  Check out in the clip above!

Besides this, Gabe also shared with me that he produced Sara Bareilles' first album, "the one before the big one on the big label".  It's called Careful Confessions, and it's being released by her label.  

Check it out here 

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Jib Jabbed: Gabriel Mann is the Voice of Obama!

Gabriel Mann (C'95, Off the Beat) emailed to let me know that he's the voice of Barack Obama in the latest viral Jib Jab video going around the web (see above, minute 1:16)

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John Legend Debuts Obama Rally Song At Penn!

John Legend (C'99, Counterparts) was on campus at an Obama rally performing his new song "If You're Out There". Apparently, this is a new song he wrote last week for the Obama campaign because he was inspired by the young people out there getting involved with the election. A pretty appropriate rally song if you ask me.

Check out some of the other songs he performed:



"Take It Slow"





"Get Lifted"





"Ordinary People"





"Good Morning"



It's always fun when celebrities come to campus to endorse candidates. ...Like when these celebrities came to Penn back in 1993 to support Bill Clinton.



Speaking of John Legend, catch an appearance John made on the Ellen Show a couple months ago!



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