Astonishingly, Fantastic Negrito christened his third full-length album (under that alias) before the world was turned inside out. The disc’s prescient title comprises the first words you hear when ...

FANTASTIC NEGRITO: I got a message, and it was something like, I know your deep, dark family secrets. CHANG: The sender claimed to be a relative of his and pointed him to genealogical records they had ...

When Bay Area songwriter and performer, Fantastic Negrito (born Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz), writes new music, he thinks of his children. He thinks, “What would they think of me?” So, in his work, which ...

For episode five of the Under the Radar Podcast we spoke to versatile two-time Grammy winning Oakland blues and R&B singer/songwriter Fantastic Negrito (born Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz). His most recent ...

Welcome to Pass the Aux, where KQED Arts & Culture brings you our favorite new tracks by Bay Area artists. Check out past entries and submit a song for future coverage here. Fantastic Negrito’s rise ...

Late last year, NPR Music launched a contest to give an undiscovered band a chance to play behind the Tiny Desk. On Thursday morning, the judges announced their winner, chosen from nearly 7,000 ...