Freddie Ross Jr. (born 28 January 1978), better known by her stage name Big Freedia, is an American rapper, singer and performer known for her work in the New Orleans genre of hip hop called bounce music. Freedia has been credited with helping popularize the genre, which had been largely underground since developing in the early 1990s.

Having emerged locally in 2011, she got her own reality show on the Fuse Channel in 2013, which chronicles her life on tour and at home. Her debut album, Just Be Free, came out in 2014, whereas 2015 saw the release of her autobiography, God Save the Queen Diva!.

At the end of 2016, Freedia was featured in a local New Orleans television ad for Juan LaFonta Law Office, in which she is shown rapping with bounce music and dancers. In 2018, she released the EP Third Ward Bounce. Freedia was scheduled to go on tour with Kesha in 2020, but it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023, she returned to release her second studio album Central City. Album number three, Pressing Onward, followed in 2025.

Big Freedia uses she/her pronouns. She considers herself gender fluid and is comfortable with people using either he/him or she/her pronouns, although she herself uses she/her. She has stated that she doesn't feel pressured to gender herself and that it ultimately doesn't matter to her what pronouns people use.
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