The cover of the issue to be released Friday shows Legend, who is 40, wearing an unbuttoned, wet, blue shirt and standing in waist-deep water.
The 10-time Grammy winner told the magazine that the honor comes with some pressure since he's following Idris Elba, who was last year’s winner. Legend said that “is not fair and is not nice to me!”
Legend said his wife is proud of him.
“I’ve finally impressed her,” he said.
His wife Chrissy Teigen posted on Twitter that his children were not so impressed.
The kids...do not care pic.twitter.com/kFTp6CyHI3
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) November 13, 2019
Legend has two children with model-television host Teigen.
Other recent winners include Dwayne Johnson and David Beckham.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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