We didn't really find anything about how he learned to speak the language in songs flawlessly. But it has been shared from sources online that Bradley Nowell familiarize himself with Spanish from Hispanics that he worked with at his father's construction company.
The said claim was said to be found on the first book ever about the Sublime's frontman called Sublime's Brad Nowell: Crazy Fool (Portrait of a Punk), written by Heidi Siegmund Cuda.
He’d grown up in Tustin but lived in Long Beach from the time his parents divorced a decade earlier and his mom, citing his hyperactivity, sent him to live with his father, a construction contractor and amateur guitarist.
He got his first guitar at the age of 12. His father introduced him to the music of Jim Croce and his mother taught piano for a living in addition to playing the flute.
Sublime was a popular raggae/punk/alternative-rock band of the 1990s, who became notorious for their numerous references to "weed" and "getting high". Nowell often sang completely in Spanish and sometimes even in "Spanglish".
It’s always nice when Latino stars can speak their ancestor’s language, but it’s even more impressive when non-Latino celebrities and figures take the time to learn and speak Spanish.
Check out these 15 stars speaking Spanish, featured on HuffingtonPost.com.