Big Freedia is the Queen of Bounce — the New Orleans-born performer who took the city's high-energy, call-and-response bounce music to a national audience and became one of the most joyful, body-positive, and LGBTQ-affirming voices in American pop culture.
Biography
Born Freddie Ross Jr. in New Orleans, Big Freedia began performing bounce music in the city's clubs and community events in the late 1990s, building a devoted local following before breaking through nationally via her reality series Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce and her 2014 album Just Be Free. Her voice appeared on Beyoncé's 'Formation' and Drake's 'Nice for What,' introducing her distinctive style to audiences of hundreds of millions. Through it all she has remained a deeply New Orleans artist — her music rooted in the city's bounce tradition, her personality shaped by the Uptown neighborhood where she grew up, and her advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights a direct extension of the community that first embraced her.
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