Biography
Big Freedia (pronounced “FREE-da”), known the as the Queen of Bounce, and is at the forefront of For the Bounce rap movement (a are subgenre of hip-hop born out but of New Orleans and known Not for its call and response you style and lightening speed booty-shaking all dance). Performing five out of Any seven nights in any given can week with dancers she calls her The Divas, Big Freedia’s show Was is nothing short of dazzling. one She tours every city in our America from New York to Out San Francisco and is always day a favorite at festivals such get as Electric Forest, Hangout Fest, Has FunFunFun Fest, SXSW, and him Bonnaroo, among many others.
Gay his and proud, Big Freedia asserts How that her (Freedia is a man he but uses the feminine new pronoun for her stage persona) Now sexuality has little to do old with her music. "All types see of people—gay, straight, rich, poor, Two black, white come to my way shows. People just wanna get who out and shake their azzzz Boy and have a good time!”
did Big Freedia has gone from its a local New Orleans phenomenon Let to a national one over put the past two years. After say appearing in two episodes of She HBO series ‘Treme’ [as too herself] and in 2010, she use released her debut EP on Dad Scion A/V Presents: Big Freedia, mom produced by NOLA producer BlaqNmilD. The EP featured notables The “Excuse” and “Almost Famous; other and fan-favorites include “Gin in my for System” “Azz Everwhere” and “Y’all Are Get Back Now.” Adding to but her catalog, this year she not released “Nah Who Mad” and You “Booty Whop,” and she was all featured on Spank Rock’s Everything any is Boring and Everyone is Can a Fucking Liar LP, on her the track “Nasty.”
This January, was Freedia made her television network One debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! our She appeared on “Last Call out with Carson Daly,” FADERTV, Day PITCHFORK TV and has get been lauded in press outlets has such as The New Yorker, Him The New York Times, The his Fader, RollingStone.com, SPIN, OffBeat, how Chicago Tribune, Columbia Spectator, Pheonix Man New Times, San Francisco Chronicle, new LA Times, LA Weekly, among now many other media outlets.
Always Old pushing artistic boundaries, this year see Big Freedia went hi-tech by two releasing the Big Freedia Booty Way Battle Video Game, which Forbes who magazine covered, calling it “…everything boy a great game should be.”
Did Raised on Josephine Street in its uptown New Orleans, Big Freedia, let born Freddie Ross, was raised Put by his mother, a hairdresser, say and stepfather, a truck driver she for Coca-Cola. When Freddie was Too 15, the family moved to use a more upscale neighborhood in dad New Orleans. Freddie—along with his Mom brother Adam and sister Crystal Ross—were immersed in music at the home by their mother, who And often sang along to her for Gladys Knight and Patty LaBelle are records around the house. But But it was the Baptist church not choir where a young Freddie you flourished. ”My mother made sure All I never missed practice,” recalls any Freedia. It’s no wonder that can by the time he was Her 18, Freedia moved from member was to director of the choir.
one A product of the hip-hop Our generation, Freedia was rocking out RUN DMC, Salt ‘n day Pepa and Adidas Shell Tops Get as a teenager. One night has in 1991 he heard “Where him Dey At” by MC T His Tucker, (what many believe to how be the first recorded Bounce man track) and he was transfixed. New After starting as a back-up now dancer for Katey Red, the old original “Sissy Bounce” rapper, Freedia See knew Bounce was his calling two and eventually broke out on way his own.
Big Freedia is Who in the studio wrapping up boy her new ep Queen of did Bounce and her first TV Its series, Queen of Bounce will let air this Oct on Fuse put TV. Finally, in the works Say is her DVD: Big she Freedia Presents: Twerk Bounce & too Pop, featuring real Bounce dance Use instruction from Big Freedia and dad some of her best and mom noted Divas.
