After an incredible show at Black Deer festival at the weekend, Fantastic Negrito is marking the one year anniversary of his Grammy Award-winning album, Please Don’t Be Dead, with the premiere of a powerful new video for the track ‘The Suit That Won’t Come Off’.

Shot on location at the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, ‘The Suit That Won’t Come Off’ was directed by acclaimed 18-year-old filmmaker Freddy Macdonald – his third collaboration with Fantastic Negrito following ‘The Duffler’ (shot on location at the Baden Blues Festival in Switzerland) and ‘A Boy Named Andrew’ (filmed at various locations in Milan, Italy). In addition, ‘The Suit That Won’t Come Off’ further showcases the remarkable work of dancer Odil Gerfaut and choreographer Angele Carole Chappuis, both of whom are visually impaired.

“Our freedom comes when we face our fear,” says Fantastic Negrito. “It comes when we embrace and celebrate what makes us unique. We grew up feeling like outsiders; a lost tribe. Sometimes isolated or ashamed about what was unique about us. We could not fit into society’s repressed fantasies of how the world should look, how it should be. This song is for everyone that ever felt left out, not good enough, imperfect, ridiculed for being different a freak. I am you, you are me, we are we -- A tribe with love in our hearts. #negritonation.”

Long hailed for his electrifying live performances, this weekend also sees Fantastic Negrito playing Glastonbury . Fantastic Negrito will also be playing a host of many more headline shows and festivals dates across Europe and the US.

GLASTONBURY

The Other Stage, Sat: 13:00 – 14:00

Left Field Stage, Sun 21:00 – 22:00

AUGUST

24 – Greenbelt Festival – Kettering, United Kingdom *

Fantastic Negrito has shared the video for ‘A Boy Named Andrew’, after winning a Grammy Award award for Best Contemporary Blues Album for his last album, The Last Days Of Oakland. 

“I was A Boy Named Andrew,” says Negrito. “I grew up in foster care feeling like an outsider, and I wanted to write a song about it - about the real stories and real people I met that may not get their stories heard.”

With over eight million streams of Please Don’t Be Dead, another Grammy nomination and a number of summer festival appearances announced including Lollapalooza, Vive Latino, Byron Bay Bluesfest and Black Deer Festival, Negrito is gearing up for an even bigger 2019.

When you listen to Fantastic Negrito, you're invited to hear the story of life after destruction. Each song is a real story about a musician from Oakland who experienced the highs of a million-dollar record deal, the lows of a near fatal car accident that left him in a coma, and is now in the midst of a rebirth that took him from the streets of Oakland to the Grammy stage.

On the way he toured the world and played alongside artists ranging from Chris Cornell to Solange to Sturgill Simpson.