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Saturday, October 10, 2020
Friday, October 9, 2020
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
MorMor Heaven's Only Wishful [June 22, 2018]
[Artist Spotlight] Seth Nyquist [born 1992], better known as MorMor, is a Canadian indie pop singer and songwriter. Seth Nyquist was born in Toronto, where he grew up with his adoptive mother, English professor Mary Nyquist, and his sister. He was in a foster home initially and then got adopted by a Swedish family. "Mormor" is a reference to his grandmother, with ”mormor” meaning grandmother in Swedish.] Nyquist sang in the school choir and played trumpet in a band. After he finished school, Nyquist started to study sociology at Toronto's Ryerson University. He dropped out after one semester and decided to focus on his musical career instead. He took piano and vocal training. In 2015, he released his debut EP Live for Nothing under the moniker MorMor, which was the name he used to call his late grandmother. In 2018, MorMor released the EP Heaven's Only Wishful through his own label Don't Guess. In 2019, he received a SOCAN Songwriting Prize nomination for the song "Whatever Comes to Mind".
Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MorMor
NPR Music Linda Diaz 2020 Tiny Desk Contest Winner: Tiny Desk [Home] Concert [October 5, 2020]
Linda Diaz -- Winning the Tiny Desk Contest has been a surreal experience for me, not only because it's a big, big honor, but because it's all happening in the midst of a global pandemic. Even just shooting my Tiny Desk (home) concert has been a wild ride: getting the band together, getting the NPR team together, figuring out how to shoot safely with everyone in New York City. At one point, we finally had everything set and ready to go. Then, days before the shoot, I tested positive for COVID-19. I will spare you all the details (lots of tears, lots of phone calls), but I am so grateful for my band, the NPR Music team and the Javits Center for going above and beyond for me, the human as much as me, the musician.
Even though I couldn't be at the Desk, I'm feeling lucky to have been able to share some extra little parts of my personality with my (home) concert. Like, how dope is it to be able to say that I'm not only the 2020 Tiny Desk Contest winner, but that we were the first musicians ever to perform on the top of the Javits Center?! In more ways than one, this concert is a victory and a dream come true for me.
Through this whole process, it has felt weird to be celebrating, but what has been reiterated time and again is that it is more than OK to be Black and celebrate and mourn and organize and rest and any other number of things. Black joy is radical because it actively opposes defeat. It is necessary.
Sunday, October 4, 2020
Tanerélle Nothing Without You [Lyric] [January 23, 2020]
[Artist Spotlight] Tanerélle is a space age songstress from Atlanta, Georgia. After moving to Los Angeles and acquiring her BFA in acting she released her first single Siren which was followed by her 2017 release 11:11 .
Courtesy: open.spotify.com/artist/ Tanerélle
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