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American - Musician Born: 1968

I like being photographed without glasses. I don't want to be pretentious.

Fantastic Negrito

Glasses Want Like Being

Your dream can die. You will probably give up. But from there, you can start everything over.

Fantastic Negrito

You Die Start Dream

It's amazing: when you are challenged with less, sometimes you can produce more.

Fantastic Negrito

You Sometimes Amazing More

Just keep being yourself. Keep being yourself, and people recognize it.

Fantastic Negrito

Yourself People Being Just

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

Fantastic Negrito

Music Performance Live Everything

I think I was made for live music. It's just great.

Fantastic Negrito

Music Great Think Live

I had a dream, as young people have quite idealistic dreams and goals, of, 'I'm going to go to Los Angeles, and I'm going to become a star!' I did get this huge record deal, and I recorded this music under Xavier. That didn't really work out.

Fantastic Negrito

Work Music Dreams Goals

I knew I was an exhibitionist. I came from a huge family. I found an emotional connection being on stage.

Fantastic Negrito

Family Emotional Stage Being

What I decided was I'd be happier not being in the confines of a corporate infrastructure producing music. That's when I was free, and it opened up the door to have a different personality and incarnations. That's really when I had success in my music life. I was able to license my music.

Fantastic Negrito

Life Success Music Personality

Prince was a hero. He was the brother, the black man that was a little different. As a kid, you thought, 'Wow, he's different. If he can do it, I can do it.' I read that he was self-taught, so I started teaching myself to play the piano.

Fantastic Negrito

Myself Hero Man You

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I write songs. I perform. I play the guitar. I play the keyboard.

Fantastic Negrito

Guitar Play Write Songs

That's always the time to quit - when you have nothing to say as an artist and creative person.

Fantastic Negrito

Time You Nothing Artist

There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are artists who are artists.

Fantastic Negrito

World Way Go Who

My dad was born in 1905, and the men from that period were real men. He prepared me for the world.

Fantastic Negrito

Me Men Dad World

I was raised on African music, Harry Belafonte, and the Boston Pops. Then I got a dose of soul and hip-hop. I related to it immediately.

Fantastic Negrito

Music Soul Hip-Hop I Was Raised

Jimmy Iovine signed me personally to a million-dollar contract, and I lost my identity for a long time. That system is so predicated on making a hit, or you're out of here.

Fantastic Negrito

Me Time You Long

If I can't be honest with music, forget it.

Fantastic Negrito

Music Forget Honest

Fantastic Negrito is a persona, an incarnation in my third phase.

Fantastic Negrito

Fantastic Phase Third Persona

My dad was a strict Muslim. He had a lot of rules.

Fantastic Negrito

Dad Rules He Muslim

As long as we have have predatory capitalism, we'll have guns because the gun industry loves to make money out of guns.

Fantastic Negrito

Money Long Gun Capitalism

I hitchhiked to L.A. with $100 and a keyboard.

Fantastic Negrito

I thought my story was over. But that was when I realised I finally had a story to tell - and it seems to remind people of their own story.

Fantastic Negrito

People Thought Story Own

I really loved the hardcore alternative vibe Prince had on 'Dirty Mind.'

Fantastic Negrito

Mind Loved Dirty Prince

I think that was always my strength. I was never a great player, but I could write.

Fantastic Negrito

Strength Great Think Never

The one thing I had pure in my life was creativity.

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Life My Life Creativity Pure

Growing up in the neighborhoods I did in Oakland, you don't know the Beatles, but I started learning their songs.

Fantastic Negrito

Learning You Know Growing Up

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