Amoeba Music

3-time GRAMMY Award-winner Fantastic Negrito stops in at Amoeba Hollywood for a special acoustic set and album signing Thursday, February 27th at 5pm! Purchase his new album, Son of a Broken Man (out now via his own Storefront Records), in-store only at Amoeba Hollywood on 2/27 to attend the post-show signing.

The show is free/all-ages. Album purchase at Amoeba on 2/27 required to attend the signing.

Fantasic Negrito and his band are playing at The Venice West on February 26th.
 

Fantastic Negrito’s first full-length release since 2023's acclaimed Grandfather Courage, Son of a Broken Man is heralded by album highlights, “I Hope Somebody’s Loving You,” “Crooked Road,” and “California Loner.” "When I was 12 years old, my dad stopped talking to me and kicked me out of the house,” said Fantastic Negrito’s Xavier Dphrepaulezz.“I never saw him again and he ended up dying while I was in foster care. This is me talking to him and telling him what I’ve done with my life.”

Born Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, the story of Fantastic Negrito is a testament to the transformative power of music and the importance of resilience. By now much has been made of Negrito’s unique story – his early years growing up in an orthodox Muslim household, the doomed major label deal that turned him off of the music industry altogether, 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. In the years that followed, Negrito would go on to take home three consecutive GRAMMY® Awards for “Best Contemporary Blues Album,” share stages with everyone from Sturgill Simpson to Chris Cornell to Bruce Springsteen, collaborate in the studio with the likes of Sting, E-40, and Tank and the Bangas, perform on countless worldwide headline tours and at such festivals as Lollapalooza, Glastonbury, Newport Folk, and Byron Bay Blues, and found the Revolution Plantation, an urban farm aimed at youth education and empowerment. Fantastic Negrito’s fifth studio album, 2022’s White Jesus Black Problems, marked the acclaimed first release on his own Storefront Records label. 2023 saw the release of Grandfather Courage, an acoustic reimagining of White Jesus Black Problems recorded with his touring band and hailed by PopMatters as “a compelling, affecting work of acoustic blues and roots music, speaking to the deep currents of blues as an American art form.”