Fantastic Negrito - Millennium Stage (July 2, 2025)

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Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Fantastic Negrito released his highly anticipated album, Son of a Broken Man, on October 18, 2024, via his own Storefront Records. The 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 has 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.