Fantastic Negrito

Calgary Folk Music Festival Announces Complete 2024 Lineup

PUBLISHED May 1, 2024

Calgary Folk Music Festival organizers have laid out this year's complete lineup after announcing the first wave back in March. Headliners...

Calgary Folk Music Festival Gets Emmylou Harris, the Sadies, Andrew Bird, the Weather Station for 2023 Edition

PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2023

Taking place at Prince's Island Park from July 27 to 30, the 44th annual Calgary Folk Music Festival — powered by ATB — has revealed its fu...

At Long Last, Victoria Welcomed Rifflandia Back with Open Arms

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2022

After so much struggle and effort, it feels like a magnificent victory that Rifflandia not only came back, but also outdid itself in many w...

Fantastic Negrito Balances Sonic and Social Detail on 'White Jesus Black Problems'

PUBLISHED Jun 3, 2022

Fantastic Negrito's unique family history and complex career trajectory have intermingled to inspire his ambitious new album, White Jesus B...

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Please Don't Be Dead

PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2018

With his fourth album as an artist, the musical reinvention of Fantastic Negrito is nearly complete. The man born Xavier Dphrepaulezz from...

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Velvet Underground, Toronto ON, October 12

PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2016

Hailing from Oakland, California, the funky gentleman born Xavier Dphrepaulezz is on a mission. Purveyor of a modern-minded bluesy black ro...

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The Last Days of Oakland

PUBLISHED Jun 3, 2016

For Fantastic Negrito, the blues isn't just a genre, but a lifeblood — one that he oozes through and through.   That fact is audible throug...