What’s an artist to do when, as a substitute of standing and dancing earlier than a stadium of adoring followers, she’s as a substitute sitting behind the Tiny Desk?
You do precisely what Puerto Rican vocalist Kany García does: dig deep into the intimacy of her songwriting and the musicality of one of the distinctive voices in any type of Latin music.
The primary monitor, “Para Siempre” completely embodies a seductive declaration of togetherness with lyrics like: “I wish to be the need that brings you house each evening.” In “Mundo Inventado,” the total energy of her songwriting has me misplaced in my feels, as she sings of the plight of all immigrants in every single place who depart the recognized for the unknown. (The place is my tissue? I’ve one thing in my eye.)
She closes the set along with her track whose profane title cannot be written out absolutely however is as frequent because the sound of site visitors throughout Latin America: “DPM (De Pxta Madre).” In García’s masterful palms it turns into a colourful solution to categorical the ups and downs of feelings of even the briefest romantic episode.
If there was ever any doubt that García brings the abilities of probably the greatest lyricists of Latin America to the world of Spanish pop music, this efficiency proves it. It looks like she is singing her very private messages of want and longing only for me.
Uh, I imply, for all of us.
SET LIST
- “Para Siempre”
- “Búscame”
- “Mundo Inventado”
- “DPM (De Pxta Madre)”
MUSICIANS
- Kany García: lead vocals, metal guitar, ukulele
- Cristian F. Rivera: music director, metal guitar, ukulele, background vocals
- Olga I. González: background vocals, shaker, tambourine
- Ricardo Rodríguez: classical guitar, background vocals
- Antonio Alonso: drums, percussion, background vocals
- Bryan Pérez: bass
- José M. Gómez: keyboard, accordion, background vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producers: Felix Conteras, Anamaria Sayre
- Director/Editor: Joshua Bryant
- Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
- Inventive Director: Bob Boilen
- Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Elizabeth Gillis, Michael Zamora
- Audio Assistant: Neil Tevault
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Estefania Mitre
- Tiny Desk Staff: Suraya Mohamed, Hazel Cills, Kara Body
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
- Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann
