Big Freedia Biography

Big Freedia (pronounced “FREE-da”) known as the Queen of Bounce is at the forefront of the Bounce rap movement (a subgenre of hip-hop born out of New Orleans and known for its call and response style and lightening speed booty-shaking dance). Performing five out of seven nights in any given week with dancers she calls The Divas Big Freedia’s show is nothing short of dazzling. She tours every city in America from New York to San Francisco and is always a favorite at festivals such as Electric Forest Hangout Fest FunFunFun Fest SXSW and Bonnaroo among many others.
Though gay and proud Big Freedia asserts that her (Freedia is a he but uses the feminine pronoun for her stage persona) sexuality has little to do with her music and rejects the term Sissy Bounce (the queer brand of Bounce). “All Bounce is Bounce” he insists. “There’s no need to separate it out. All types of people—gay straight rich poor black white come to my shows. People just wanna get out and shake their azzzz and have a good time!” And therein lies the beauty of Big Freedia: She can rock a pair of dangling gold earrings and light up a blunt and chop it up with the hardest rapper around. She’s not a gay artist but rather an artist who happens to be gay.
Big Freedia has gone from a local New Orleans phenomenon to a national one over the past two years. After appearing in two episodes of HBO series ‘Treme’ [as herself] and in 2010 she released her debut EP on Scion A/V Presents: Big Freedia produced by NOLA producer BlaqNmilD. The EP featured notables “Excuse” and “Almost Famous; other fan-favorites include “Gin in my System” “Azz Everwhere” and “Y’all Get Back Now.” Adding to her catalog this year she released “Nah Who Mad” and “Booty Whop” and she was featured on Spank Rock’s Everything is Boring and Everyone is a Fucking Liar LP on the track “Nasty.” This month she was featured on “Peanut Butter” with actor Ru Paul.

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