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He performed "Long Live the Chief" and "Little Bit More" with a full band on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah in October 2016. Season 1 episode 5, "Just to Get a Rep", opens with Jidenna performing "Long Live the Chief" at the fictitious Harlem's Paradise.
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In September 2016, Jidenna was featured in an episode of the Netflix original series Luke Cage. Jidenna describes his look as "heavily inspired by the Harlem Renaissance with hints of traditional West African design," and a "marriage of European and African aesthetics." Jidenna currently resides in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. However, he would not adopt his signature dandy style until the death of his father in 2010. Over the years, the singer developed his personal style in college, where he learned about the power of fashion from his psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. Jidenna stated that his major influences include KRS-One and Big Daddy Kane, as well as the Nigerian Highlife music genre. In 2019 Jidenna released his second album, 85 to Africa. The lead singles "Sufi Woman" and "Tribe" were released on July 26, 2019, and will appear on his second studio album 85 to Africa. The album cover pays homage to Boz Scaggs' Middle Man album. On February 17, 2017, Jidenna released The Chief, his first studio album. In June 2016 he released the single "Chief Don't Run". The society, reminiscent of the social aid and pleasure clubs of New Orleans, is an international collective of entrepreneurs, activists, educators, scientists, and artists who host soirees, dinner parties, and demonstrations. Jidenna is a founding member of Fear & Fancy, a social club that began in California in 2006. Jidenna also received an award for best new artist at the 2015 Soul Train Music Awards in November. In June of the same year, Jidenna performed the song with Monáe at the BET Awards. His song "Classic Man" was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 58th Grammy Awards. On March 31, 2015, the second single from the EP was released – " Yoga" by Janelle Monáe and Jidenna. The song was in heavy rotation throughout the United States, and debuted at number 49 on Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart. In February 2015, Jidenna released his first official single, called " Classic Man" featuring GianArthur. Beauty, Deep Cotton and Janelle Monáe herself, and then began recording a five-song compilation of its label's first extended play (EP), titled The Eephus. He has collaborated with a number of artists that are signed to this label including Roman GianArthur, St. Jidenna is signed to Janelle Monáe's Wondaland Records label and distributed through Epic Records.
In 2008, after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity from Stanford University, he pursued his music career while working full-time as a teacher, moving between Los Angeles, Oakland, Brooklyn and Atlanta, before signing a deal with recording artist Janelle Monáe's Wondaland Records. Jidenna released his first album with Black Spadez as their final project at Milton Academy, where Jidenna graduated in 2003. In high school he became a co-founder of the rap group Black Spadez, and began producing, arranging and writing. In 1995, the family moved to Norwood, Massachusetts, and then to Milton, Massachusetts, in 2000. When Jidenna was six years old, the family moved back to the United States. Jidenna grew up partially in Nigeria, where his father was working as a professor of computer science at Enugu State University. Jidenna Theodore Mobisson was born on May 4, 1985, in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, to Tama Mobisson, an accountant, and Oliver Mobisson, a Nigerian Igbo academic. His debut album, The Chief, was released on February 17, 2017, and peaked at number 38 on the Billboard 200. In 2015, Jidenna released two singles, " Classic Man" and " Yoga", promoting Janelle Monáe's label Wondaland Records' compilation EP The Eephus with Epic Records. Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (born May 4, 1985), better known mononymously as Jidenna, is an American rapper and singer.