Tamino: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Watch Tamino play “Habibi“, “Tummy“ and “Indigo Night“ at the Tiny Desk. More from NPR Music: Tiny Desk Concerts: Twitter: Instagram: July 26, 2019 | Bob Boilen -- I was thrilled to have the gifted voice of Tamino gracing the Tiny Desk. But as charged as I was, that didn’t match the excitement that Colin Greenwood expressed as we rode up the elevator. The Radiohead bassist (and bassist for this special performance) shared a brief text exchange with his son, basically telling his hugely accomplished dad that playing the Tiny Desk was “the coolest thing he’d ever done!“ That made us all smile. The attraction that brought Colin Greenwood and these other musicians to bond with Tamino, a young singer of Belgian, Egyptian, and Lebanese descent, is his voice; it’s inescapable. For me a reference point is Jeff Buckley; they both have a way