Alex Isley returns to Tiny Desk with a set of fan favorites and something new. She made her debut on the platform five years ago during the pandemic and today’s show is her first time in the actual room. Her backup singers include Muhsinah and she brings out Masego forContinue Reading
Doechii does Tiny Desk and performs an eight-song set with her all-woman band. The majority of the songs are from her 2024 mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal, and she closes it out with “Black Girl Memoir” from her debut EP, Oh The Places You Will Go. The singer and rapper alsoContinue Reading
Meshell Ndegeocello shares “Love” from her forthcoming No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin and performs her second Tiny Desk Concert for their Black Music Month celebration. “Love” fetes vulnerability and connection in a shower of hi-hats, sweet melody, sacred choruses, and Meshell’s funk-wielding bass. She performed the singleContinue Reading
The legendary Chaka Khan aka the Queen of Funk Soul graced the Tiny Desk room to give a show for Black Music Month. NPR wanted to showcase nine Black women artists and Khan is one of them. Khan performs seven of her classics with her band and trio of backupContinue Reading