From The Field To The Stage, Abraham Alexander Charts Course As A Musical Star

Arlington TX

06 April, 2022

7:23 PM

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By Marcheta Fornoff, Fort Worth Report April 6, 2022 A soccer injury might have been the luckiest thing to happen to Abraham Alexander. Until that point, the former Texas Wesleyan soccer player had only fiddled around on other people's guitars. After he got hurt, his then-girlfriend gave him his own. "It was me losing something and trying to find something to replace it. But at the end of the day, it made more sense … me playing this instrument made more sense than like breathing itself," Alexander explained. "It was like I just gained a limb that I lost or didn't know I needed or I had. It was the self-expression that I've never had before." When he started teaching himself how to play by watching YouTube videos of Gary Clark Jr., he had no idea that, a few years later, he would play with Clark Jr., tour with Leon Bridges and get signed to Dualtone Records. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.