Tamino: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Watch Tamino play Habibi, Tummy and Indigo Night at the Tiny Desk. More from NPR Music: Tiny Desk Concerts: Twitter: Instagram: July 26, 2019, Bob Boilen I was thrilled to have the gifted voice of Tamino gracing the Tiny Desk. But as charged as I was, that didn t match the excitement that Colin Greenwood expressed as we rode up the elevator. The Radiohead bassist (and bassist for this special performance) shared a brief text exchange with his son, basically telling his hugely accomplished dad that playing the Tiny Desk was the coolest thing he d ever done That made us all smile. The attraction that brought Colin Greenwood and these other musicians to bond with Tamino, a young singer of Belgian, Egyptian, and Lebanese descent, is his voice; it s inescapable. For me a reference point is Jeff Buckley; they both have a way of soaring into the upper registers and into the ether; it s stunning. I first he
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