Special Edition: Grammy-Winning Fantastic Negrito
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 13 March 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, March 13th. |
| 0:02.0 | The Grammys are this Sunday, |
| 0:03.7 | so today I'm talking with two-time Grammy winner, |
| 0:06.0 | Fantastic Negrito. |
| 0:07.6 | This year he's nominated for a third Grammy. |
| 0:09.9 | His latest album, Have You Lost Your Mind Yet, |
| 0:12.1 | is up for Best Contemporary Blues album. |
| 0:14.8 | Today we're talking about what it was like |
| 0:16.4 | to go from a childhood where it was easier |
| 0:18.4 | to access a gun than a piano to a million dollar record deal. |
| 0:22.6 | He also shares how he felt winning his first Grammy, |
| 0:25.5 | and why even now he can't stand putting those trophies |
| 0:28.2 | on his shelf. |
| 0:29.4 | Fantastic Negrito first burst onto the national radar |
| 0:32.0 | in 2015 thanks to the NPR Tiny Desk contest, |
| 0:35.7 | and now he's working on not just a fourth album, |
| 0:38.2 | but also a new record label. |
| 0:40.2 | Here's my conversation with Fantastic Negrito. |
| 0:44.5 | Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy Special Edition Saturday, |
| 0:47.6 | when we sit down with a different expert or celebrity |
| 0:49.6 | every Saturday to talk about something in the news. |
| 0:52.0 | Don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday |
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