We're going to buy our little brother a bass, he's a freshman in high school.

In an interview with Billboard, however, Nathan outlined how they told RCA, 'We don't want to be Evan and Jaron. Signing and first EP: 2002–2003 īy 2002, Nathan and Caleb had received interest from a number of music labels and eventually signed with RCA Records, which initially insisted on putting a band together for the two of them. They named the band after their grandfather Leon, who died in January 2014. When he and their cousin Matthew also moved to Nashville in 1999, Kings of Leon was formed. Jared, who had briefly attended public school, was more influenced by the music of the Pixies and the Velvet Underground. While there, they met songwriter Angelo Petraglia, who helped the siblings hone their songwriting skills and introduced them to the musical influences of Thin Lizzy, the Rolling Stones and the Clash in particular. When the boys' father resigned from preaching and their parents divorced in 1997, Nathan and Caleb relocated to outside Nashville and originally embraced country music. Except for a five-year period when they settled in Jackson, Tennessee, the Followills' childhoods were spent driving through the southern United States in a purple 1988 Oldsmobile, camping for a week or two wherever Ivan was scheduled to preach. They were either home-schooled by their mother, or enrolled in small parochial schools at this time. According to Rolling Stone magazine, 'While Ivan preached at churches and tent revivals throughout Oklahoma and the Deep South, his boys attended services and were occasionally enlisted to 'bang on some drums'. Jared attended Mount Juliet High School, while Matthew was born and raised in Mississippi.

Nathan was born in Oklahoma, and Jared and Caleb were born in and around Memphis, Tennessee. The three Followill brothers (Matthew is their cousin) grew up in Oklahoma and Tennessee with their father, Ivan Leon Followill, a United Pentecostal Church preacher, and their mother, Betty-Ann.

1.8 When You See Yourself: 2020–present.

1.4 Because of the Times and Only by the Night: 2006–2010.

1.3 First albums and critical recognition: 2003–2006.

The group has 12 Grammy Award nominations, including 4 wins. Their eighth studio album, When You See Yourself, was released on March 5, 2021. The seventh studio album, Walls, was released on October 14, 2016. Their sixth album, Mechanical Bull, was released on September 24, 2013. The band's fifth album, Come Around Sundown, was released on October 18, 2010.

The album was their first Platinum-selling album in the United States, and was also the best-selling album of 2008 in Australia, being certified platinum nine times. The singles ' Sex on Fire', ' Use Somebody', and ' Notion' all peaked at number one on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. Their third album, Because of the Times, also reached the number one spot.Īfter the release of Only by the Night in September 2008, the band achieved chart success in the United States. Kings of Leon achieved initial success in the United Kingdom with nine Top 40 singles, two BRIT Awards in 2008, and all three of the band's albums at the time peaked in the top five of the UK Albums Chart. The band's early music was a blend of Southern rock and garage rock with blues influences, but it has gradually evolved throughout the years to include a variety of genres and a more alternative, arena rock sound. The band is composed of brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared Followill with their cousin Matthew Followill. Kings of Leon is an American rock band that formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1999.

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