![]() … The verses all deal in opposites: ‘when I look outside, when I look inside, when I look outside again / from the periphery to the very center, I am always the witness and the judge’ The chorus is a question: ‘When will I know how to decipher my purpose? When will I feel at home in my voice?’ For anyone who has felt out of place, or like they don’t fit neatly under one label, I hope you find a home in the two minutes and 30 seconds of this song.” In a statement submitted to NPR Music as part of the contest, Amador described “Milonga accidental” as “an ode to in-between-ness, to having several identities at once, to feeling split between cultures and languages. “I think we all go through those moments when we feel like we belong in more than just one place and we feel that we want to be everywhere at the same time.” I enjoyed her voice and the way she sort of embraced her ‘confusion’ through her song,” iLe added. “Alisa Amador felt simply soothing and pleasant to listen to. Related: Robert Plant, Alison Krauss Deliver ‘Raise The Roof’ Tracks For ‘Tiny Desk (Home) Concert’ That feeling is also in the spaciousness of her acoustic guitar playing.” “I don’t speak Spanish, yet her yearning voice conveyed what I needed to know about her and the song, a song I think of as wondering and questioning one’s place in life. “With thousands of entries it’s always a tough choice, but Alisa’s voice is what puts it over the top for me,” Bob Boilen said of the panel’s selection. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico by a panel of judges including Tiny Desk creator and host of All Songs Considered Bob Boilen Tiny Desk producer Bobby Carter, singer Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast, rapper Big K.R.I.T, singer-songwriter Raveena, Puerto Rican singer iLe and jazz critic Nate Chinen from WBGO. ![]() Her performance was selected from among thousands of submissions from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. Related: Allen Stone Performs On NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk Concert’ Series The winning song was the first song she submitted sung entirely in Spanish. The Boston-based singer-songwriter will perform at NPR‘s Tiny Desk before embarking on the Tiny Desk Contest On The Road national tour at the end of the month.Īfter submitting a Contest entry every year since 2018, Alisa Amador fatefully chose “Milonga accidental” as her 2022 submission. That is part of a toxic culture.NPR Music has announced the winner of the eighth edition of the Tiny Desk Contest: Alisa Amador. I used to think that was part of being a woman and now I’m like: No. Or, that man just told me I have a good voice but I have to be careful, because I can turn a lot of people on with my voice. Like, that guy just told me if he were 20 years younger he’d want to go on a date with me. And I’m not totally sure why.” Because I still saw experiencing that behavior as just part of the deal of being a woman. I would leave conversations and interactions saying, “Huh. Before I prioritized everyone else’s happiness and comfort over my own comfort. But being able to share this music gives me so much hope.Ī. Sometimes I don’t feel strong sometimes I just feel tired. I’m still learning how to listen to myself. ![]() When I come out of a conversation and say, “I don’t feel like I was respected” - now I have a vocabulary for it. Before I, the behaviors I accepted are so different from the behaviors I accept now. It’s so hard in so many ways that I’m still trying to understand. It must be hard being a woman in the music business.Ī. “Narratives” feels like a standing-up for yourself. In “Nada Que Ver,” the chorus is: “I want it to be a drop of honey/ for it to last longer than a paper airplane.” And I never would’ve come up with those words in English. In Spanish, the lyrics are more poetic because I have fewer words to draw from - I’ve read fewer books, listened to fewer people talking, so I don’t draw from tropes or phrases. Do you find it easier to write in Spanish or English?Ī. Now when I sit down to write, it’s either English or Spanish and I don’t know until I start. Before, I saw as this private coping mechanism - I didn’t conceptualize that people would want to play with me. In Buenos Aires, I played with a band for the first time. ![]() Something that changed me was a semester abroad to Argentina. It’s this helplessness feeling - like there’s nothing you can do to help them heal. A friend got really sick with mental illness, due to their being closeted. You started writing songs in high school. I started playing classical nylon-string guitar at 10, wanting to look and play like my dad who was a classical guitarist - but I was playing Don McLean’s “American Pie” and “Monster Mash”.
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