{"id":24960,"date":"2023-03-09T05:30:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=24960"},"modified":"2023-02-15T11:14:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T16:14:47","slug":"interview-roundup-fantastic-negrito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/09\/interview-roundup-fantastic-negrito\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Roundup: Fantastic Negrito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier Dphrepaulezz aka Fantastic Negrito may well be one of the most important artists of the era. Nominally a blues artist \u2013 or at least initially categorized as one \u2013 his music may not even remind you of the blues at all. He truly draws from the best sources \u2013 Gil Scott-Heron and Prince, to name two \u2013 and then creates something that sounds nothing like those artists. He\u2019s truly his own man. His \u201cdebut\u201d album (which is nothing of the sort) is a must-hear, but everything he does is worthwhile.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15337\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15337\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15337\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bk_xavier2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bk_xavier2.jpg 550w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bk_xavier2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Kopp and Fantastic Negrito<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ve been fortunate to witness his thrilling, life-affirming live shows several times, and I\u2019ve interviewed him on multiple occasions. The man is truly special. Read about him at the links below, and spend time with his music.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/01\/fantastic-negrito-fantastic-reinvention\/\">Fantastic Negrito interview #1<\/a> (2016)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/07\/captivate-and-provoke-the-modern-black-roots-music-of-fantastic-negrito\/\">Fantastic Negrito interview #2<\/a> (2016)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/15\/fantastic-negrito-we-can-turn-it-around-part-1\/\">Fantastic Negrito interview #3<\/a> (2018)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/26\/fantastic-negrito-these-are-my-friends\/\">Fantastic Negrito interview #4<\/a> (2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/27\/chocolate-samurai-more-from-my-conversation-with-fantastic-negrito-part-one\/\">Fantastic Negrito interview #5<\/a> (2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier Dphrepaulezz aka Fantastic Negrito may well be one of the most important artists of the era. Nominally a blues artist \u2013 or at least initially categorized as one \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2868],"class_list":["post-24960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-fantastic-negrito","cat-41-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24962,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960\/revisions\/24962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}