Well before he started dyeing his hair red and styling himself like a Harlem Renaissance–era dandy, before he ditched his last name, signed to his friend Janelle Monáe's label, or began singing and rapping in his arrestingly incongruous array of styles, Jidenna Mobisson was already confusing the hell out of people. "My whole life," he says, with an undisguised hint of pride, "I've had a lot of
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Jidenna: The Remarkable Rise and Grand Visions of a Classic Man