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‘I wanted more for my career’: Grammy winner changes tack
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To most young musicians, earning a Grammy nomination on your debut album would be a wild fantasy. For Texan singer Leon Bridges, the reality was bizarrely discomfiting.
In 2015, Bridges, then 25 and barely removed from his day job working the dish-pit at US steakhouse chain Del Frisco’s, released
Coming Home, a collection of revivalist soul that seemed an artifact transported straight from the ’60s. Bridges’ distinctively raw rasp, evoking soul legends such as Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, won instant plaudits.