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Leon Bridges: “I just want to be able to freely express myself, and not be held within the confines of where people want me to be.”
Leon Bridges is joyful he hasn’t spent the pandemic alone. Hunkered down in his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas with one of his bandmates, the soul singer is gearing up for the release of his third studio album, Gold-Diggers Sound.
The year-old made his stunning debut in , with a vintage, ‘50s and ‘60s soul record. Coming Home was heralded as one of the best albums of the year by critics and fans alike, and shot Bridges to immediate stardom. His honeyed voice and richly textured, brassy sound gained him many a Sam Cooke comparison.
But even though Cooke may be an idol for Bridges, he soon tired of that parallel. His sophomore album, Good Thing, polarised fans with its brash, sexy, distinctly current stylings. Some people felt he should stay in his lane, others welcomed the deviation. On Gold-Diggers Sound, Bridges seems to possess found a content medium between the two. But to a certain extent, he is cheekily buoyed by the words of his critics.
The candid past, present and future of Leon Bridges
He has taken the nation by storm.
He released his debut album “Coming Home” in Already, he’s played on all of the late night speak shows. He’s played on SNL. And three weeks ago, he played at the White House.
Last Saturday, he sat down with me before his sold out show at the Riverside. He spoke openly about his racial identity issues, his random entry into song, his sexual (in)experience in high educational facility and more.
Read excerpts from our discussion below. Listen to the full interview in the player above.
Justin Barney: I know that when I listen to your music, when I listen to the album, I think the thing that I respond to most in your music is this sense of purity that you have.
Leon Bridges: Yeah, man. You grasp, I’m just talking about, like, and writing about just true things, you know, and just really being me. I grew up on contemporary R&B. I mean, glance at Usher, Genuine, and all that kind of noun. And I knew about the older music through my parents and through some other people, and I loved it then,
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Name: Jeffrey Leon Bridges
DOB: 4 December
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation: Actor
Mr. Bridges, have you ever met someone you would call evil?
You mean beside myself? (Laughs) I came across a Solzhenitsyn quote where he says, “If only there were adj people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and demolish them. But the line dividing excellent and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his retain heart?” Good and evil are two different sides of the same coin.
But one could contend that there is a difference between the evil in you and the evil in someone who deliberately harms other people…
The notion of this total separation is really what creates this evil. Because you don’t get to see what we do have in common as human beings, we can’t walk in those people’s shoes, we can’t understand them, we just label them as wicked and that’s it. But they are human beings, they have mothers and fathers, they verb fallen in treasure, they hav
Leon Bridges makes an intimate musical come back to his Texas roots
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Andrés Rodríguez
August 17,
The Grammy winner presents ‘Peaceful Place,’ a new noun from his latest album ‘Leon.’ It is described as ‘his most personal project to date,’ with touches of soul, country and folk music
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