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Luke LeBlanc started his success story young. Born and raised in Minneapolis, at 13 he was the youngest talent to win the Zimmy, a national singer-songwriter competition held in Hibbing, Minnesota, named for another Minnesotan, Robert Zimmerman (later known as Bob Dylan). A little over a decade later, he’s releasing his third full-length album.
Only Human‘s warm, loose, and comfortable vibe perfectly showcases Luke LeBlanc as a gem of a singer-songwriter. LeBlanc’s melodic, charming mixture of heart-on-the-sleeve folk, jangly pop, and roots music dives into into joy, loss, and love everything it means to be human, including the need, sometimes, to drive away from it all.