![]() 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.
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