Saturday, March 13th, 2021
Special Edition: Grammy-Winning Fantastic Negrito
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The Grammy Awards are this Sunday, so today, you'll hear from two-time Grammy-winner Fantastic Negrito. He's nominated for a third Grammy this year.
In our conversation, he shares what it was like have more access to guns than instruments as a child, what went through his mind when he won that very first Grammy, gives us a mini performance, and much more.
Fantastic Negrito first burst onto the national radar in 2015. He’s now working on a fourth album and even a new record label.
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Guest: Fantastic Negrito
When you listen to Fantastic Negrito, you’re invited to hear the story of life after destruction. Each song is a real story about a musician from Oakland who experienced the highs of a million-dollar record deal, the lows of a near fatal car accident that left him in a coma, and is now in the midst of a rebirth that took him from the streets of Oakland to the world stage.
The narrative of this man is as important as the sound, because the narrative is the sound. Songs born from a long hard life channeled through black roots music. Slide guitar, drums, piano. Urgent, desperate, edgy.
Negrito burst on to the national radar by winning the inaugural NPR Tiny Desk contest in 2015, and has since won Grammys for his first two albums: The Last Days of Oakland (2017) and Please Don’t Be Dead (2019). His third album, Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?, is nominated for a Grammy in 2021 and includes features from fellow Tiny Desk winner Tank (Tank and theBangas) and Bay Area legend E-40
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