Encore - Fantastic Negrito joins host Talia Schlanger
*New Order - “The Perfect Kiss” - Low-Life Fantastic Negrito - “Plastic Hamburgers” - Recorded Live for the World Cafe Fantastic Negrito - “A Boy Named Andrew” - Recorded Live for the World Cafe Fantastic Negrito - “A Cold November Street” - Recorded Live for the World Cafe Fantastic Negrito - “A Letter to Fear” - Recorded Live for the World Cafe Jackson Browne - “World In Motion” - World In Motion Sly & The Family Stone - “Everybody Is A Star” - Anthology
Hour Two *David Bowie - “Space Oddity” - Space Oddity Lo Moon - “For Me, It’s You” - single Daughter - “Youth” - If You Leave William Tyler - “Fail Safe” - Goes West Calexico - “Quattro (World Drifts In)” - Feast Of Wire Girlpool - “Hire” - What Chaos Is Imaginary R. E. M. - “Bittersweet Me” - New Adventures In Hi-Fi Kelsey Lu - “Due West” - Due West (single) Bryan Ferry - “Slave To Love” - Boys and Girls Kacey Musgraves - “Slow Burn” - Golden Hour Rosanne Cash - “She Remembers Everything” - She Remembers Everything Regina Spektor - “Fidelity” - Begin To Hope David Gray - “The Sapling” - Gold In A Brass Age Ray Lamontagne - “You Can Bring Me Flowers” - Till The Sun Turns Black
2015 Tiny Desk Contest Winner Fantastic Negrito Just Won A Grammy
In 2015, NPR Music ran our first-ever Tiny Desk Contest. That year, a little-known blues musician named @fantasticnegrito submitted an entry. It was a simple video — filmed in one take on an iPad in an elevator shaft. But there was an electric quality to it that transfixed our team. Fantastic Negrito went on to win that year’s Contest.
Today, two years later, his album The Last Days Of Oakland won the Grammy award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
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We are so proud to have been a part of this journey. Congratulations to Fantastic Negrito. And to all the dreamers: Keep it up.