Lila Iké: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. Rising reggae star Lila Iké has an allencompassing vibe, and you can feel it in this Tiny Desk (home) concert. Lila and her crew of musicians outfitted a home in Jamaica for this video, and the layout resembles the Tiny Desk s home in Washington, D. C. I was thrilled to see that Lila performed her hit single I Spy for this quarantine concert; it s full of the flair I ve been missing the last several months. Lila s vocal agility can bend notes and transcend genres, the kind of voice that makes you want to turn to your friend at a show and say Is she for real On Solitude, she blends avantgarde R B with contemporary reggae in a hauntingly elegant song complemented by violinist Sean Ziah Roberts. Thy Will (which borrows from the iconic