Leon bridges gay
Home / gay topics / Leon bridges gay
Her boyfriend turned out to be Austin Jenkins of the band White Denim. One night at an Austin bar Bridges was approached by a young woman who complimented him on his snazzy Wrangler's and said that he should meet her boyfriend, a fellow with a comparable sense of style. Sometimes it can be overwhelming.” Bridges told The Guardian.
Leon Bridges is not married; he is not looking for a long-term relationship
Leon Bridges is not married or dating.
In high school I'd try singing songs by Ginuwine and Usher," he explains, "and I thought well, maybe they weren't in my range." Instead, a lithe, nimble physicality led Leon to study dance at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth.
"When I wrote 'Lisa Sawyer' I didn't know anything about old soul music," Leon says. "I'd been doing hip-hop dance since I was 11 years old," he says. And she did: A-minor and E-minor. I rely on phrasing to get my feeling across." Bridges' delivery exudes strength through tenderness.
Is Leon Bridges married?
"I'm not a shouter. "I hadn't heard of White Denim at the time," Bridges says, "but I went and looked them up and thought yeah, that's interesting music." After Jenkins and his bandmate Joshua Block subsequently peeped Bridges perform at a low-key local show, they insisted Leon enter the studio to cut a few tracks on their burgeoning bank of vintage equipment.
That initial three-day session, with Jenkins and Block producing, yielded the recordings that set Bridges at the center of rapturous attention from aficionados and labels alike.
Furthermore, Bridges’ sleek, fastidious fashion sensibility dovetailed with the songs he was writing. While he appears to have emerged cut from the cloth and fully formed, Bridges explains in his dulcet voice how he came to be here now.
"As a kid I grew fascinated with modern R&B. I didn’t have the desire to stay boxed in, making ‘60s style R&B for the rest of my career.”
San Diego LGBT Pride Community Calendar
The river of soul music flows on deep and strong, and 25-year-old Leon Bridges is immersed in its life-giving current.
The Forth Worth, Texas native and Columbia Records artist is currently preparing his debut album for release in the summer of 2015. "A friend of mine brought his keyboard to school every day, and we'd have these little jam sessions, improvising, and I started to find my voice." One day a female friend asked Bridges to look after her guitar while she went to class.
I fell in love with their sound, and that's when I started writing songs, from those two chords."
That Bridges compositional bedrock began in a minor mode is revealing. Steeped in tradition, drenched with intention and desire, Leon Bridges' soul music is happening here and now.
.
"It speaks to the gift God placed in me," Leon says, choosing his words carefully.It depicts Bridges sauntering down a sunlit sidewalk, his shadow falling not behind him but stretching out in the direction of his forward stride.