Ibeyi: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Feb. 7, 2018, Felix Contreras The twin sisters in Ibeyi started their turn behind the Tiny Desk by singing an invocation of a West African Yoruba deity. They come by their connection to the AfroCuban culture by way of their late father, Miguel Anga Diaz, an indemand Cuban percussionist who was part of a vanguard musicians who reinvigorated Cuban music before he died prematurely at age 45 in 2006. The sisters, LisaKaindé and Naomi Díaz, carry that calling in their DNA, and how they ve manifested it