Fantastic Negrito refuses to let Grammy win distract him
by Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune
Jun 12, 2018
3 minutes
You'd think that any artist who wins a Grammy award - as Fantastic Negrito did for best contemporary blues album for his 2016 release, "The Last Days of Oakland" - would be thrilled. But Negrito, born Xavier Dphrepaulezz in 1968, saw it as a distraction.
"What did winning a Grammy do for me?" says the singer. "It made me want to get rid of my Grammy, pack it away and never see it again. It made me not want to speak to anyone who wanted to speak about
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