{"id":289522,"date":"2025-10-09T15:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/289522\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:13:11","slug":"leon-bridges-honored-with-street-toppers-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/289522\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Bridges Honored With Street Toppers in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLeon Bridges’ debut album came out in 2015.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Columbia Records<\/p>\n

Fort Worth native Leon Bridges<\/a> now has a street with his name on it.<\/p>\n

The Grammy Award winner<\/a> is immortalized on the intersection of South Calhoun Street and East Daggett Avenue after an unveiling ceremony in front of Niles City Sound this week. Mayor Mattie Parker, Hear Fort Worth\u2019s Tom Martens and Chip Adams with the Texas Music Office gave remarks.<\/p>\n

Bridges was born in Atlanta but was raised in Fort Worth, graduating from Fort Worth Crowley High School. Bridges recorded his debut album, Coming Home, nearly a decade ago at Niles City Sound. His Columbia Records debut was a triumph of vintage-sounding retro soul that indicated he was only going to get better. His smooth, Sam Cooke-esque croon won over a lot of people, and he\u2019s become one of the biggest artists who never forgets his Texas roots.<\/p>\n

\u201cFort Worth is my place of refuge. A lot of artists when they get success, they move out of their city, but I still kept Fort Worth home,\u201d he told The Dallas Morning News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fort Worth council members unanimously passed a resolution on Sept. 30 to place street sign toppers in honor of Bridges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Leon Bridges came home and he sold out Dickies Arena, the feeling in that arena was palpable because this city, we all were so proud that Leon was one of us,\u201d Mayor Parker said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Bridges won a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Performance for his song \u201cBet Ain\u2019t Worth The Hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2024, he released his album Leon, which emphasizes his Fort Worth upbringing and takes the listener on a personalized tour of the streets, people and landmarks that have shaped him today.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of stories about my family running through it,\u201d Bridges told Grammy.com<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s really about the things that I value most in life and what is meaningful to me, which is home and family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last time we saw Bridges in Dallas, it wasn\u2019t a performance. But rather a surprise appearance during an encore at Amin\u00e9\u2019s show at South Side Ballroom<\/a>. He just wrapped up his joint tour with Charley Crockett in Austin, so to come out for Amin\u00e9\u2019s fans was cool. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s nice that Fort Worth\u2019s most recognizable star can be among people who love him and he can still be himself. Congrats again on the honor, Leon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leon Bridges’ debut album came out in 2015. Courtesy of Columbia Records Fort Worth native Leon Bridges now…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":289523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,132030,3988,7371,7372,14838,358,132131,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-289522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-awards-accolades","10":"tag-country-music","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-local-music","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-touring-artists","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}