Indigo De Souza: Tiny Desk Concert

Hazel Cills, September 13, 2023 It s not exactly typical for artists at the Tiny Desk to share their future burial plans, but that s exactly what Indigo de Souza does halfway through her performance. I wrote this song about my love for nature, the singersongwriter says, introducing the track Not My I think that when I die. .. what I want is to be composted and to become soil, and for that soil to be used to plant a tree, and I want that tree to be so big and I don t know what kind of tree yet still thinking on it, she says, with a few giggles from the audience. A tree that people can visit and be like, This is Indigo Until they die and they can t visit me It s beautiful, unvarnished sentiments like that a desire to be reborn as a big and strong redwood tree that mark de Souza s lyricism. The 26yearold songwriter s music always emits a certain nakedness, as sh