Random Midday Hotness: Fantastic Negrito.

NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts,  the stripped-down, live-in-the-middle-of-an-office-cubicle performance series probably most remembered for breaking the Internet when T-Pain dropped by sans AutoTune, held a big contest to give an undiscovered act a spotlight at the Tiny Desk. The winner was Fantastic Negrito, a roots musician from Oakland.

What’s good with that name, though?

“To me it’s a celebration of blackness,” he says. ” ‘Fantastic’ is self-explanatory, you know? And the ‘Negrito’ is a way to open up blackness to everyone — you know, make it playful, international. It’s extremely positive in my view; it’s my affair with this music. And it’s like gold! I feel like it’s something that everyone should know about.”

Gotta love musicians, man.

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Gene "G.D." Demby is the founder and editor of PostBourgie. In his day job, he blogs and reports on race and ethnicity for NPR's Code Switch team.
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