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Nwaka Onwusa, the chief curator at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, picks her five favorite Tiny Desk concerts.
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The Swedish funk foursome perform songs from its latest album, New Me, Same Us, plus an old favorite for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.
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Jordan Mackampa has spent his life straddling identities. His music juggles genres, too, as it mashes classic pop together with tinges of gospel and dramatic, timeless, string-swept soul.
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Devon Gilfillian's glittering, soulful sound intersects with everything from vintage R&B to ragged folk-rock, but there's one constant: a rangy, wonderfully expressive, sandy-smooth voice.
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Begonia is enormously distinct in her crystalline delivery, which pairs perfectly with songs about staring down doubt and anxiety.
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Baby Rose's voice is a remarkable instrument: It dispenses weary, heartsick ache with the deep blues of a woman trice her age.
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Parisalexa's sound draws heavily on the springy, buoyant playfulness of '90s R&B, but she's too genre-fluid, rangy and clever to sound like a mere throwback.
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Mutono's infectious, blissed-out R&B reflects on a desire for comfort and community amid arrangements at the midpoint of the cool vulnerability of Frank Ocean and the sleek balladeering of Khalid.
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The 23-year old rapper from Alabama went for a stripped-down set anchored by a Peruvian cajón.
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The godfather of 21st century soul electrified NPR's Tiny Desk Fest audience, with a little help from rising R&B star Lucky Daye.