Fantastic Negrito

中文名：泽维尔

国籍：欧美

Negrito was born in western Massachusetts, the eighth of fifteen children.[3] His father was a deeply religious Somali Muslim who, Negrito recalls, had "a lot of rules" for his children.[4] Negrito and his family relocated to Oakland when he was 12 years old.[5] A lifelong hustler, he began selling drugs at a young age in Oakland, and in 2016, he told the Guardian, "We were all selling drugs, man. We all carried pistols. There was a crack epidemic."[4] He became inspired to teach himself how to play music after listening to Prince's album Dirty Mind and hearing that Prince was a self-taught musician. He learned to play music by sneaking into music classrooms at the University of California Berkeley despite not being a student there.

从艺历程：Negrito made a record deal with Prince's former manager, and later, in 1993, made another deal, this one with Interscope Records.On January 9, 1996, he released his first album, The X Factor, under the mononym Xavier. The album was released on Lexington House Records and distributed by Interscope. He was in a near-fatal car crash in 1999, which left him in a coma for three weeks;he has since said that he felt that this crash "released" him because Interscope terminated their contract with him, after which he resumed hustling.

荣誉记录：In 2007, he stopped making music, but he returned in 2014, describing his new musical style as "black roots music for everyone".In 2015, he won NPR's Tiny Desk Contest. In 2016, his album The Last Days of Oakland was released on the Blackball Universe label.Negrito won his first Grammy in 2017, when The Last Days of Oakland received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.