Fantastic Negrito Shares New Album and Ancestral Stories with KQED Live

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Fantastic Negrito is one of the most original and successful performers to emerge from the Bay Area over the last decade. A musician, a storyteller and a carrier of our region’s Black musical traditions, he began performing on the streets of Oakland. Now he’s won 3 Grammys and he’s got a new album coming out today. Alexis, Mina Kim and some lucky KQED Live fans, got to hear a preview of that album a few months back, and we’re excited to finally be able to share Fantastic Negrito’s electric performance with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for KQED podcasts comes from San Francisco International Airport.
0:05.3	You can fly back in time and visit SFO's Aviation Museum and Library to learn about the history of commercial aviation.
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0:17.0	Support for forum comes from Broadway SF, presenting Parade, the musical revival based on a true story.
0:24.8	From three-time Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown comes the story of Leo and Lucille Frank,
0:31.2	a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Georgia. When Leo is accused of an
0:36.9	unspeakable crime, it propels them into an
0:39.7	unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice, and devotion. The riveting and gloriously hopeful
0:47.1	parade plays the Orpheum Theater for three weeks only, May 20th through June 8th. Tickets
0:53.6	on sale now at Broadwaysf.com.
0:57.0	From KQED.
1:00.0	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:10.0	Fantastic Negrito is one of the most original and successful performers to emerge from the Bay Area over the last decade.
1:16.6	A blues musician, kind of, a storyteller, definitely, and a carrier of our region's black musical traditions, he began performing on the streets of Oakland.
1:26.6	Now he's won three Grammys, and he's
1:29.0	got a new album coming out today. Mina and I, along with some lucky KQED Live fans, got to hear
1:35.4	a preview of that album a few months back, and we're so excited to finally be able to share
1:40.4	Fantastic Negrito's Electric Performance with you. That's coming up next after this news.
2:03.6	This is an exciting day. Back in November, Mina Kim and I hosted a KQED live event with the Bay Area's own fantastic
2:09.4	Negrito playing from his newest album.
2:12.5	We've been sitting on it until now because his album, White Jesus Black Problems, releases
2:17.2	today.
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