Three-time GRAMMY® Award winning artist Fantastic Negrito will release his new live album, Alive!, via Storefront Records. Recorded live at shows across the world, the album captures the power of human connection at a time when culture is increasingly mediated by algorithms and presents live performance as one of the last truly collective art forms: completely human, unedited, and shaped in real time by the exchange between artist and audience.

On the album, Fantastic Negrito says “Everything and everyone is my teacher. We’re in the age of information and artificial intelligence, where a song can be written by a machine and a voice can be built out of nothing. I wanted the opposite, a record that’s alive, with all its rough edges. I wrote these songs, played them, sang them, live, on stages across the world.”

As a final look into the project, Fantastic Negrito shared focus track “Honest Man.” Swelling with soulful emotion, the track unfurls with an eerie rock sound that ebbs and flows before reaching a fever pitch. The live recording enhances the distinct choices the band makes on the spot each time they play, making it a perfect example of the improvisational spectacle that is a Fantastic Negrito show. 

Composed of grit, soul, funk, rock, foot stomps, handclaps, and blues, Fantastic Negrito has built a global following through performances that transcend genre and dissolve the boundaries between stage and crowd. His live shows are not simply concerts, they are collective experiences driven by emotion, vulnerability, and fearless musicality. This new album captures that experience in its purest form.

Fantastic Negrito has built a global following through fearless originality and genre-defying music that blends blues, rock, soul, funk, and roots traditions into something entirely his own.

Across Alive!, those songs take on new life in front of an audience, where spontaneity, vulnerability, and community become part of the performance itself. Negrito’s concerts are known for dissolving the boundary between stage and crowd, creating an atmosphere that feels immediate, participatory, and deeply alive.

Since winning the inaugural NPR Tiny Desk Contest, Fantastic Negrito has continued to redefine contemporary roots music, blending blues, soul, rock, and funk into a sound that is unmistakably his own. His performances have earned praise from audiences across major festivals including Glastonbury, Newport Folk Festival, Lollapalooza, WOMAD, and collaborations with artists such as Sting, E-40, and Tank and the Bangas further demonstrate the broad reach of his artistry.

Fantastic Negrito is currently on tour this summer with tour dates in the US, Europe, and more. Information on dates here.

US Tour dates: 
Aug 20       Phoenix, AZ @ Musical Instrument Museum

Aug 21       Santa Fe, NM @ Santa Fe Plaza

Aug 22       Tucson, AZ @ La Rosa

Sep 26       San Francisco, CA @ Davies Symphony Hall (with the SF Symphony)

Photo Courtesy: Roberta Paolucci