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 in addition as a flexible musician who glides simply from style to style with the convenience of a grasp. For her time behind the Desk, she assembled a crew 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 along with her conga chops. The whole set is a mirrored image of her lengthy standing skill to meld Afro-Caribbean, jazz and funk right into a danceable celebration that caps off with photographs of tequila for her closing observe “Playa Tequila.”
Any period of time spent with Sheila E. is a reminder that prime caliber musicianship is all the time first and goes down simpler when introduced with the joyous vitality of an icon.
SET LIST
- “Rumba Percussion Jam”
- “Mi Amor”
- “The Approach That You Do”
- “Potentialities”
- “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/Sequence 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 Staff: Hazel Cills, Josh Newell
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
