World Music Matters: Bluesman Fantastic Negrito sings America's working poor by RFI published on 2017-09-08T20:47:14Z Californian bluesman Xavier Dphrepaulezz aka Fantastic Negrito plays black roots music, with punk attitude. His album The Last Days of Oakland won this year's Grammy Award for best contemporary blues album. RFI caught up with the self-taught guitarist, whose songs about America's working poor have been praised by the likes of Bernie Saunders, at the Afropunk festival in Paris in July. Genre Jazz & Blues