Leon Bridges is an American gospel and soul singer from Fort Worth, Texas. He is best known for his song “Coming Home” which received regular airplay and was also a Top 10 Most Viral Track on the net and Spotify Bridges music style is soul and gospel resembling 1960s rhythm and blues, with The Wall Street Journal describing him as a “throwback to ’60s-soul a la Otis Redding and Sam Cooke.” Bridges performs in vintage clothing describing him as someone whose “music sounds like he looks.Because he will be at the Franklin’s BBQ of SXSW—the lines will be long and everyone that waits will swear it was worth it. But if a recent run of spot-on Austin shows is an indication (and it should be), they’ll be right: Live, where you can hear pin drop when he belts out the big ballads, the hype on this 25-year-old soul-thowback proves itself worth believing. And this early Mother’s Day card, only the third piece of recorded evidence to surface so far, is as stirring as it is gorgeous.
