#Music4Dev: Oakland Musician Fantastic Negrito on Cultural Preservation




World Bank Podcasts show

Summary: Fantastic Negrito celebrates and preserves African-American culture through music. For more information visit: http://wrld.bg/R9QEd Questions asked in this interview: 00:34 You’ve switched to the name Fantastic Negrito, can you tell me what’s behind it? You play a lot of black roots music in Delta? 01:14 So it’s really important for you to preserve that musical cultural heritage? 01:21 You have a real great rags-to-riches story. You were a street musician at one time and now you’re? 02:22 Can you tell me more a little bit about your back story, and how you arrive to this point, to making this collective?