The full name of the singer is Jidenna Theodore Mobisson. He was born on May 4th, 1985.
The singer was born in the city of Wisconsin Rapids, which is in the state Wisconsin in the United States. However, his father was Nigerian, from Igbo tribe. The future celebrity grew up in Nigeria until he was six years old, because his father had a prestigious job at Enugu State University, he was a professor of computer science.
Later, the boy’s family moved to the United States. According to Jidenna’s memories, it was a hard time for the family. They went to the Massachusetts state. The Mobisson family first moved to Norwood and then changed their place of residence to Milton.
Jidenna mother, Tama Mobisson, was a white woman and an accountant. Jidenna mother and father were determined people who always worked to ensure the best life for their boy and his siblings.
After graduating in 2008, Jidenna moved to New York to take up a teaching position in a hip-hop academic program, simultaneously teaching in four schools in South Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. Although he did not enjoy the work, he continued teaching until early 2014 simply because he needed money.
In the course of his job, which involved making children’s music, he had to study different types of music and then put rhymes to them in a way that children would love. Concurrently, he continued to pursue his own musical career, moving between New York, Los Angeles, Oakland and Atlanta.
Jidenna’s father died in 2010. Before his death, he told Jidenna that if he was going to make music, he should make sure it reflected the world so that people could relate to it. He also asked Jidenna to invent himself and write music that nobody has heard before.
Jiddena took his father’s words as the guiding principle of his life, eventually taking up music as his fulltime career and signing to Janelle Monáe’s Wondaland Records label in 2013. Here he began collaborating with a number of Wondaland artists, including Janelle Monáe, Roman GianArthur, St. Beauty and Deep Cotton.
In 2014, he started working on a 5-track EP, ‘Wondaland Presents: The Eephus’, with Janelle Monáe, Roman GianArthur, St. Beauty and Deep Cotton. It included two of his numbers; ‘Classic Man’, his solo and ‘Yoga’, in which he appeared with Janelle Monáe.
