Jidenna
Jidenna
Jidenna Mobisson
Jidenna is Brooklyn-based, but Wisconsin-born. He was born in Wisconsin, raised in Nigeria and then Massachusetts, went to college at Stanford, pursued his career in various parts of California, and now lives in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
His name in Igbo means ‘to embrace the father’. An adept artist and performer, his music nominally falls under the hip hop umbrella, but has a place in PR&B.
He is also a founding member of the social club Fear & Fancy, which was founded in 2006, which is described as ‘A combination of hip hop and Kaplan’.
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