Alt.Latino's favorite Tiny Desk Contest entries

Alt.Latino

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It's the 10th annual Tiny Desk contest and there's been a strong showing of Latin artists behind desks across the United States and Puerto Rico.

Felix and Ana sifted through all the entries and pulled their favorites from artists with roots all across the Americas. And if one of them ends up winning, you can thank us for the introduction.

Songs featured in this episode:

•Cathia, "Taza de Café"
•Manu Manzo, "Celos"
•Mireya Ramos and the Poor Choices, "Quiero Volver"
•Flaco el Jandro, "Lluvia Pesada"
•Los Quinceañeros, "Guero"
•La Doña, "Loser Girl"
•Alejandro Aranda, "Pieces"

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler, with editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message come from Yarl and Pamela Mohn, thanking the people who make public radio great every day and also those who listen.
0:14.1	So, Felix, I had my birthday party this weekend.
0:18.0	I heard. Thank you for inviting me.
0:19.5	Everyone's been talking about it. You were invited. You decided not shot. You went to the spa instead. I heard. Thank you for inviting me. Everyone's been talking about it.
0:25.5	You were invited. You decided not shot. You went to the spa instead. I'm not offended. It's fine.
0:32.0	Priorities. And this is like the first big party I feel like you thrown at my house. But across the street, I don't know what's going on, but they're always having kinsas. I don't know if they have like a bunch of kids. I don't know what's going on, but they're always having kinesis. I don't know if they have, like, a bunch of kids. I don't know.
0:42.8	So me and my roommate, we like to sit there and kind of, like, judge all the kids as they come up the stairs, like, really?
0:44.6	Like, sit there in our window.
0:46.0	They're, like, checking out their outfits.
0:56.0	And it's always, like, the girls show up really early and they look like terrible. Anyways, I felt some pressure with my birthday playlist to kind of compete. They really play some bangers at these Keynes days every week.
0:59.0	And I just felt like, still, I wasn't able to rise to compete with these 15-year-olds.
1:05.0	And so I thought to myself, you know what, they can't do.
1:08.0	They can't bring original Tiny Desk contest music. So I figured, what a great day.
1:15.5	What a great idea to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Tiny Desk contest. We can call this the episode
1:21.8	where we pick all the best Tynast contest entries for Anna to make a playlist to compete with her 15-year-old
1:27.0	neighbors. If that will fit in the headline on the website.
1:29.2	I think that'll work.
1:29.9	Yeah.
1:30.4	This is our annual peak at some of the artists who sent in videos for the Tiny Desk Contest.
1:35.4	Again, this is the 10th annual.
1:36.6	So there have been thousands, thousands, thousands of people over the years that have sent in videos.
1:41.7	Some of them will repeat. But the idea is for us to pull
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