Black Pumas

Following their coronation as Best New Band at the 2019 Austin Music Awards, Black Pumas release their second single "Fire," the follow-up to their Song Of The Year-winning "Black Moon Rising." The band have also announced their signing to ATO Records, as well as a full slate of SXSW shows. Black Pumas is led by the creative partnership between Grammy Award-winning guitarist / producer Adrian Quesada and 27-year-old songwriter Eric Burton. Burton is a relative newcomer who arrived in Austin in 2015 after busking his way across the country from Los Angeles, while Quesada has a storied reputation for playing in bands like Grupo Fantasma and Brownout, while also producing acclaimed projects like 2018's Look At My Soul: The Latin Shade Of Texas Soul. After the two connected via friends in the Austin scene, they began to collaborate on a new sound that transmutes soul into something idiosyncratically modern. Reminiscent of Ghostface Killah and Motown in equal measure, this original sound ensured that Black Pumas' weekly residency at C-Boys quickly became "the hottest party in town" (Austin-American Statesman). Keep an ear out for more news from Black Pumas about a debut album coming later this spring.

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