Leon Bridges is a man with soul
Just yesterday, it seems, he was a hard-toiling nobody with a head full of impossible dreams. Now he is the anointed saviour of soul music, variously acclaimed as the American Adele and heir to Marvin Gaye. He shrugs. If that seems strange to everyone else, imagine how he feels.
“I’ve always been ambitious,” muses the softly spoken 26-year-old. “The problem at the beginning is that I didn’t know how to get where I needed to. I was playing music around town, trying to put my name out. It wasn’t happening. I didn’t think it would ever happen.”
