--- title: John Legend and Taye Diggs Had a Sexy Voicemail Sing-Off description: John Legend and Taye Diggs had a sing-off on “Watch What Happens Live.” The competition? To see who could leave the sexiest voicemail. canonical: https://time.com/2976235/john-legend-voicemail-singoff/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-11T15:57:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:05:50.686Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: John Legend and Taye Diggs Had a Sexy Voicemail Sing-Off og:description: John Legend and Taye Diggs had a sing-off on “Watch What Happens Live.” The competition? To see who could leave the sexiest voicemail. og:url: https://time.com/2976235/john-legend-voicemail-singoff/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt496a731549a2e9d3/69869b7313c79f57d51930c6/taye-diggs-john-legend.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: American Ballet Theatre 2014 Opening Night Spring Gala og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: John Legend and Taye Diggs Had a Sexy Voicemail Sing-Off twitter:description: John Legend and Taye Diggs had a sing-off on “Watch What Happens Live.” The competition? To see who could leave the sexiest voicemail. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt496a731549a2e9d3/69869b7313c79f57d51930c6/taye-diggs-john-legend.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # John Legend and Taye Diggs Had a Sexy Voicemail Sing-Off by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 11, 2014 3:57 PM UTC  NEW YORK, NY - MAY 12: Taye Diggs attends the American Ballet Theatre 2014 Opening Night Spring Gala at The Metropolitan Opera House on May 12, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - MAY 12: Taye Diggs attends the American Ballet Theatre 2014 Opening Night Spring Gala at The Metropolitan Opera House on May 12, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)Getty Images (2) by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 11, 2014 3:57 PM UTC Nine-time Grammy Award winner John Legend just unofficially defeated former “Rent” actor Taye Diggs in a sultry sing-off to see who could record the sexiest voicemail message. The “All of Me” singer soulfully implored his future callers to leave him a message Thursday night on Bravo’s _Watch What Happens Live_, promising the audience in his iconic falsetto that he would eventually call them back. Diggs, presumably unable to match Legend’s heartfelt effort, jokingly crooned a few off-key notes before conceding defeat to Legend, who can now add “Best Voicemail Recording Artist” to his already impressive list of accolades. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2976235/john-legend-voicemail-singoff/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2976235/john-legend-voicemail-singoff/"},"headline":"John Legend and Taye Diggs Had a Sexy Voicemail Sing-Off","datePublished":"2014-07-11T15:57:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:05:50.686Z","description":"Please leave a message after the falsetto.","url":"https://time.com/2976235/john-legend-voicemail-singoff/","keywords":["Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt496a731549a2e9d3/69869b7313c79f57d51930c6/taye-diggs-john-legend.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt496a731549a2e9d3/69869b7313c79f57d51930c6/taye-diggs-john-legend.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"American Ballet Theatre 2014 Opening Night Spring Gala","caption":"American Ballet Theatre 2014 Opening Night Spring Gala","creditText":"Getty Images (2)","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2976235/john-legend-voicemail-singoff/","name":"John Legend and Taye Diggs Had a Sexy Voicemail Sing-Off"}}]}] ```