Singer/Songwriter
Tristan Lake Leabu is road-worn in a way that few would guess – born in California to a family of Texans. Fully emancipated at the age of 16, with his dad imprisoned on a bogus possession charge in Texas, he fell into that oldest of Los Angeles professions, acting in a bad soap opera and repeatedly crashing his motorcycle. And he wrote songs – hundreds of songs. His music is a fitting depiction of a musician who appears to have emerged fully-formed and confident in contrasts – muscular but intricate, howling but intimate – songs shot through with equal parts vulnerability and hopefulness.