Leon Bridges (born Todd Michael Bridges on July 13, 1989) is an American gospel and soul singer and songwriter 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 Spotify. Bridges’s debut album, which is also titled Coming Home, was released on June 23, 2015 on Columbia Records.
Bridges began his career by writing songs and learned guitar in order to play simple chords to accompany his lyrics. He played at open-mic nights around Fort Worth while working as a dishwasher until he was signed by Columbia Records in 2014. It was his song “Lisa Sawyer”, about his mother’s conversion, that first defined his style.