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Frederick Ross is an American musician best known by the stage name Big Freedia ( ) and for work in the New Orleans genre of hip hop called bounce music. Freedia has been credited with helping popularize the genre, which was largely underground since developing in the early 1990s. In a 2013 interview with ''Out'', she explained that although she will allow her fans to refer to her as either "he" or "she", "my preferred pronoun is she". Freedia started singing in the choir of her neighborhood Baptist church and started her professional performance career around 1999. In 2003, she released the studio album ''Dancehall Queen Diva''. She first gained mainstream exposure in 2009, and her 2010 album ''Big Freedia Hitz Vol. 1'' was re-released on Scion A/V in March 2011, as well as a number of music videos.〔 Freedia has been featured in publications such as ''The Village Voice'' and ''The New York Times'', and has performed on ''Last Call with Carson Daly'', ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'', and at SXSW, where she received a positive review from ''Rolling Stone''. In 2011 she was named Best Emerging Artist and Best Hip-Hop/Rap Artist in January's "Best of the Beat Awards," and was nominated for the 2011 22nd GLAAD Media Awards.〔 In 2013, she got her own reality show on the fuse Channel which chronicles her life on tour and at home. On July 7, she released her autobiography "God Save The Queen Diva". ==Early life== Frederick Ross was born In New Orleans, Louisiana. As a child he took piano and sang in choir, and has said music was always a part of his life. His mother exposed him to artists such as Patti LaBelle, and he was also influenced by the late disco singer Sylvester, Michael Jackson, and Salt-n-Pepa.〔 He attended Walter L. Cohen High School, where he continued to perform in choir and also became the choir director. This experience made him realize he could write and produce.〔 According to Ross, he initially suffered from stage-fright, and had to coax himself onto stage until he became comfortable performing.〔 In 1998, a young drag queen by the name of Katey Red performed bounce music at an influential club near the Melpomene housing project where he grew up. Freddie, who had grown up four blocks away from Katey Red, began performing as a backup dancer and singer in Red's shows.〔 In 1999, Katey Red released ''Melpomene Block Party'' on the city's leading bounce label, Take Fo Records.〔 he adopted her stage name after a friend dubbed her "Freedia" (pronounced "Freeda"). According to Ross, "I wanted a catchy name that rhymed, and my mother had a club called Diva that I worked for. I called myself the queen of diva – so I coined it: Big Freedia Queen Diva."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Big Freedia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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