This Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, NPR Music celebrates artists from all corners of Latinidad with an ‘El Tiny’ takeover.
As Gloria Estefan embarks on a 50-year retrospective of her profession, this Tiny Desk takes on the identical tone, coronary heart and air of reflection. In any case, the pioneering imaginative and prescient, genuine insistence and undeniably fascinating rhythms of Estefan created the trail for Spanish-language music to thrive within the U.S.
Within the Eighties, Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine proved to a broader viewers that Latin American sounds are so magnetic and our souls so on hearth that the rhythm sooner or later did get everybody. On the Tiny Desk, their stage of creative savvy shines brighter than ever. In spotlighting Cuban percussion and the gorgeously refined vocal acumen of the hailed pop star, this set provides house for the mountainous musicianship of perpetually hits and Latino cultural staples like “Rhythm is Gonna Get You” and “Conga.”
This joyous efficiency is one other instance of what many people have at all times recognized to be true: Gloria Estefan transcends borders, unites communities and will get folks on the dance flooring.
SET LIST
- “Rhythm is Gonna Get You”
- “Raíces”
- “Mi Tierra”
- “Chirriqui Chirri”
- “La Vecina (No Sé Na’)”
- “Wrapped”
- “Conga”
MUSICIANS
- Gloria Estefan: vocals
- Clay Ostwald: keys, music director
- Javier Concepcion Jr.: keys, assistant music director
- Adrian Gines: drums
- Edwin Bonilla: percussion
- Yeismel Grandal: percussion
- Yorgis Goiricelaya: bass
- Lindsey Blair: guitar
- Julio Martinez: tres
- Osvaldo Fleites: trumpet, percussion
- Teddy Mulet: trumpet, percussion
- Robbie Elias: background vocals
- Claudia Lopez: background vocals
- Leesa Richards: background vocals
- Emilio Estefan: conga
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Anamaria Sayre
- Director/Editor: Kara Body
- Audio Technical Director: Josephine Nyounai
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Kara Body, Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Sofia Seidel
- Audio Engineer: Neil Tevault
- Manufacturing Assistants: Dhanika Pineda, Dora Levite
- Photographer: Zayrha Rodriguez
- Tiny Desk Staff: Josh Newell, Ashley Pointer
- Sequence Editor: Lars Gotrich
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Government Director: Sonali Mehta
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton
