Black Pumas is an American psychedelic soul band based in Austin, Texas, led by singer/songwriter Eric Burton and guitarist/producer Adrian Quesada. The group received its first Grammy Award nomination in 2020 for Best New Artist. In 2017, singer and songwriter Eric Burton traveled from California to Texas. Born in the San Fernando Valley, he grew up singing in church and later became active in musical theater. He began busking at the Santa Monica Pier, earning a few hundred dollars a day while developing his performance skills. Burton traveled through the Western United States, studied music at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, and eventually decided to settle in Austin, Texas, where he continued busking. He had previously been a contestant on the eleventh season of American Idol, reaching the Hollywood rounds before being eliminated. Meanwhile, Grammy Award‑winning guitarist and producer Adrian Quesada was seeking a new collaborator. Through a mutual friend, he connected with Burton. Quesada felt Burton’s vocals matched the retro‑funk and R&B‑influenced tracks he had been working on, and the two formed Black Pumas in 2018. Quesada had earlier been a member of the Latin funk band Grupo Fantasma, which won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album for the 2010 album El Existential, and had previously been nominated for the same award in 2008 for Sonidos Gold.
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