Bio
Devin Leigh is a Fort Worth, TX based singer/songwriter/multi instrumentalist. He has been inducted into the Texas Blues Hall of Fame, as well as the Texas Guitar hall of fame, Buddy Magazine Texas Tornado. He is a Billboard Top Ten Charting artist, #1 ITunes, and a Hollywood Music and Media winner. He's a true one-man-band, incorporating vocals, guitar, slide guitar, and harmonica into an already dynamic solo show. Devin is a retro revivalist, combining blues, rockabilly, classic country, and western swing. The Fort Worth Weekly said of Devin's live show, "The singer songwriter is a one man wrecking crew at live performances."
Devin's first real gig was at the Texas Heritage Music Festival in Kerville Tx with legendary songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Townes let Devin play his guitar and gave him songwriting advice. He then went on to be a crowd favorite at the Johnny High show along side LeAnn Rimes and Steve Holy. This led to an chance to open for the Dixie Chicks. Which led to an opportunity to learn songwriting from Ray Winkler, who wrote 'Welcome to my World" covered by Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, and many others. The next chapter was lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the neo-rockabilly band Hillbilly Cafe, which won several Fort Worth music awards including Band of the Year, best rock band, and best country band. They also had the honor of backing up rockabilly legends Gene Summers and Mac Curtis. After they parted ways, Devin began a new chapter of his career playing lead guitar for other artists including Texas music scene fixtures such as Bleu Edmondson(Billboard charting artist), Jason Eady(Rolling Stone top 10 artists to watch), Max Stalling(Texas Country Music Hall of Fame), and one of the biggest acts currently in Texas, Mike Ryan. Pat Green asked him to play on his “Carry On” album, and as a special guest at live shows.
Playing lead guitar over the years allowed Devin to truly hone his guitar playing skills to become "one of the town's best guitarists" (fortlive.com). In fact, in 2016, he was awarded one of the most prestigious honors a Texas guitar player can earn, being named a Texas Tornado by Buddy Magazine alongside guitar legends like Stevie Ray Vaughn and Johnny Winter. USA Today ranked Bleu Edmondson's song “Last Last Time” as a buzzworthy song and gave props to Devin's guitar solo. In 2010, he began his solo career, and over the following years developed his unique, countrified, rocking blues sound that has garnered him a healthy slew of awards including a Hollywood Music in Media Award, a Josie Show Award, a Global Music award, an Atlas music award, and an Akademia award. Nominations include and an Independent Music Award, Worldwide music award, and first round of the Grammys six times.
As a recording artist Devin has worked with Sony Playstation, Platinum producer Dwight Baker(Kelly Clarkson), multi Grammy winner Tre Nagella(Ed Sheerhan, Taylor Swift), Erik Herbst (The Eagles, Blake Shelton), LLyod Maines(Dixie Chicks, Pat Green), Patrick Mcguire(BJ Thomas, Silverado) and .Juan Garcia-Herreros(Hans Zimmer), considered one of the best bass players in the world. Devin's music has also been featured in films like “Monochrome” on Amazon, and “Scandalous Behavior” starring James Hong. Devin played harmonica on Oliver Sean's(MTV video nominee) Top Ten Billboard and Itunes album “Devil Is Back”.
Other career highlights include performing in an off Broadway play with Micky Dolenz of the Monkees, performances on the #1 Itunes show “Tara Tremendous” produced by Stewart St John(Power Rangers, Disney), producing the album with an all star Broadway cast, and the Reelz Network show “Price of Fame, the Miranda Lambert Story” as the character Harmonica Joe, performing on a #3 CMT song, and a live at Billy Bob's Dvd.
Devin currently can be seen performing his multi-award winning tunes at 15-20 shows a month around Texas. He has been featured in publications such as “Best in Texas” magazine, “Fort Worth Weekly”, “Blues Blast Magazine”, “Broadway World”, and many others.
Devin has also done extensive acting and voice over work, including films, commercials, and narrating documentaries on PBS. You can learn more about that by clicking the button below.
