Jidenna Theodore Mobisson is a Nigerian and a US citizen by birth. Born to an Igbo academic in 1986, the singer grew in various place, in Enugu, Lagos, before finally, together with his family, moved to Boston, Massachusetts. He was just 9 years old.
His first album was released as a final project at Milton Academy, in Milton, Massachusett, a schooled he graduated from in 2003. But during High School, he founded a rap group, where together, they wrote songs, rapped and sang. True Nigerian to the core, he rejected a record deal because he had to attend Stanford University, where he began with sound engineering, but later switched up to major in Ritualistic Arts. He left in 2008, armed with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and began to chase the bright lights of music.