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Xavier Dphrepaulezz, who performs as Incredible Negrito, has at all times wished to “inform the tales that can make us assume; those that can make us develop.” He entered the first-ever Tiny Desk Contest in 2015 with that dream and a video he shot in a single take. And after successful, Dphrepaulezz slowly started to comprehend how it could change his life — that there would “be an enormous highlight placed on” what he was doing, he says. “It was going to be like busking on the streets — on steroids,” he laughs.
Since successful the inaugural Contest, Dphrepaulezz has gone on to headline world excursions, win three Grammy Awards, launch a handful of albums and change into a catalyst for creativity in his native Oakland neighborhood. NPR Music not too long ago caught up with him whereas on tour for his newest studio album, White Jesus Black Issues.
Dphrepaulezz says the album was impressed by his need to inform the story of his seventh-generation grandparents, an interracial couple who lived in Virginia within the Nineteen Fifties. “It was a narrative of braveness, a narrative of perseverance, a narrative of inspiration and a narrative of fine old style, roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-something-done,” he shares.
One factor that has remained the identical since successful the Contest all these years in the past: his humility. “I’ve an perspective of gratitude,” says the multi-Grammy Award winner. “I do not count on something.”
