Abraham Alexander recently released his debut album, SEA/SONS, on Dualtone Records.
Alexander will perform at this year’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Newport Folk Festival, and Austin City Limits Festival.
This summer, he'll also embark on his first U.K. and European tour, as direct support for The Lumineers. For all Abraham Alexander tour dates see below.
Born in Greece to parents of Nigerian descent, Abraham moved to Texas with his family at age 11 to escape the racial tensions they faced in his birthplace. Shortly after moving to the states, his birth mother was killed in a car accident with a drunk driver, leading Abraham to be adopted later in his teens. He found solace in sports as a soccer prodigy and later, following a torn ACL that ended his playing career, in music once a friend handed him a guitar and he unexpectedly found songs pouring out of him.
While working as a bank teller and rehearsing during his lunch breaks, a life-changing, chance encounter with Leon Bridges changed the course of Abraham’s life. “…something in me was just like, you need to talk to this guy. It was weird, but it was that intuition that I could not dismiss.” This very intuition led him to his first experience in a recording studio, singing on Bridges’ songs such as “River” and “Coming Home.” It was Bridges that encouraged him to start taking music seriously, and he began performing at open mics.
