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3x GRAMMY® Award-winner Fantastic Negrito releases his highly anticipated new album, Son
of a Broken Man, on October 18 2024 via his own Storefront Records. The new album sees
Fantastic Negrito encapsulating his inimitable style, from hard-hitting guitar riffs to expressive
ballads, with the unexpected twists that have become his trademark. It stands as one of his
most personal works to date, exploring family, deception, and the human desire to hide the true
self as he dives deep into the struggle between father and son.
Born Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, Fantastic Negrito’s story is a testament to resilience and the
transformative power of music. By now much has been made of Negrito’s unique story –
growing up in an orthodox Muslim household, a doomed major label deal, the near-fatal car
crash that permanently damaged his guitar playing hand—as well as the remarkable redemption
arc that began in 2015, when he won the first-ever NPR Tiny Desk Contest.
He has since earned three GRAMMY® Awards for “Best Contemporary Blues Album,” and
shared stages with everyone from Sturgill Simpson to Chris Cornell to Bruce Springsteen. He’s
collaborated in the studio with the likes of Sting, E-40, and Tank and The Bangas, performed on
countless headline world tours and at festivals such as Lollapalooza, Glastonbury, Newport
Folk, and WOMAD, and founded the Revolution Plantation, an urban farm aimed at youth
education and empowerment.