Tiny Desk Live performance : NPR

This Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, NPR Music celebrates artists from all corners of Latinidad with an ‘El Tiny’ takeover.

Sheila E. is a portrait of movement.

Not simply the motion of her physique as one of many world’s most acknowledged drummers, but additionally as a flexible musician who glides simply from style to style with the benefit of a grasp. For her time behind the Desk, she assembled a group of musicians to play tracks from her first ever salsa album Bailar.

From the primary notes of “Rumba Percussion Jam,” Sheila E.’s bona-fides performing true rumbera (conventional Afro-Cuban drumming and singing) are on full show together with her conga chops. Your entire set is a mirrored image of her lengthy standing means to meld Afro-Caribbean, jazz and funk right into a danceable celebration that caps off with photographs of tequila for her remaining observe “Playa Tequila.”

Any period of time spent with Sheila E. is a reminder that top caliber musicianship is all the time first and goes down simpler when introduced with the joyous power of an icon.

SET LIST

• “Rumba Percussion Jam”
• “Mi Amor”
• “The Method That You Do”
• “Prospects”
• “Playa Tequila”

MUSICIANS

• Sheila Escovedo: lead vocals, percussion 
• Raymond McKinley: bass, tour administration, manufacturing administration
• Myke Davison: guitar
• Bertron Curtis: keys
• Rose Ann Dimalanta: keys
• Daniel Rodriguez: drums
• Fausto Cuevas: percussion
• Johny Ayquipa: trumpet
• Percy Recavarren: trombone
• Lynn Mabry: vocals
• Rebecca Jade: vocals
• Debi Nova: vocals
• Jean Rodriguez: vocals

TINY DESK TEAM

• Producer: Felix Contreras 
• Director/Editor: Maia Stern
• Audio Technical Director: Josephine Nyounai
• Host/Collection Producer: Bobby Carter
• Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Kara Body, Alanté Serene
• Audio Engineer: Ted Mebane
• Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
• Photographer: Michael Zamora
• Tiny Desk Group: Hazel Cills, Josh Newell
• Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
• Collection Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
• VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins