The big voice of New Orleans' Big Freedia with The Suffers make their way to LiveNation's House of Blues this weekend. (Friday, January 17, 2020) Freddie Ross aka Big Freedia has been wowing her audiences for years since her beginning in the Crescent City during the 90's.
Known as the Queen of Bounce music, Big Freedia is New Orleans-based hip-hop artist and worldwide ambassador of bounce music says her web biography. After a series of cult hit singles during the mid-2000’s, she was tapped for a reality show, Big Freedia Bounces Back on Fuse TV. The docuseries followed the life of a choirboy turned bounce rapper and remains the highest rated original series on the network.
Some music critics say this music genre of hip hop called bounce music started to develop in the nineties. Freedia has been credited with helping popularize the genre, which was largely underground.
It all started for Freedia singing in the choir of her neighborhood Baptist church, Pressing Onward M.B.C., and started her professional performance career around 1999. In 2003, she released the studio album 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. Those YouTube videos have garnered over 1.5 million views worldwide.
