Fantastic Negrito, aka Xavier Dphrepaulezz, has spent a career documenting his extraordinary life. His new album, White Jesus Black Problems, tells the newly discovered story of his seven-times greatgrandparents, an African slave and a Scottish servant who fell in love in Virginia, risked the brutality of the era to be together, and raised a family of free children. “It makes me feel very positive, very upbeat,” he says, “and I really want to tell their story.”
THE FIRST MUSIC I REMEMBER HEARING
Pumpkin, Banana,by Frankie ‘Zhivago’ Also Louis Armstrong, classical music.
