Lau Noah: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Feb. 11, 2019, Bob Boilen There s a magical aura that surrounds Lau Noah as she sits behind my desk and embraces her guitar with one foot propped unnaturally high on a stool. As melodies pour from the strings, she sings these words in Spanish: On the verge of the soul, there is a red petal, attached to the skins of A few lines later in the song she continues, a fragile petal that drinks the water of the most cruel stories: children who have never heard a fairytale, lovers who love, dressed in This is the sort of poetic tale that captured my heart amongst the thousands of entries I watched during the Tiny Desk Contest in 2018. Her song she submitted for the contest is called La Lau Noah s journey as a songwriter and guitarist occurred by happenstance. She was born in Reus, Spain barely a few hours drive from Barcelona. She speaks and now sings in Catalan, Spanish, English and sometimes Hebrew. She d played piano growing up (never guitar) and left Spain for New York City fi