Miya Folick: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Watch Miya Folick play “Thingamajig“, “Deadbody“ and “Cost Your Love“ at the Tiny Desk. More from NPR Music: Tiny Desk Concerts: Twitter: Instagram: July 5, 2019 | Bob Boilen -- Miya Folick began her Tiny Desk Concert with an apology in the form of a song. “Thingamajig“ opens with Wynne Bennett’s stark piano. The song is also the lead-off track on Miya Folick’s 2018 album Premonitions. On that version, the song crescendos with strings backed by a vocal loop. Here at the Tiny Desk, we get to hear why Miya Folick is such an astonishing performer, her classically trained voice taking charge, wrapping around those melodic piano lines while singing, “I am sorry / I know I am wrong / So take it all / I want to be out of control.“ Miya Folick was raised a Buddhist in Santa Ana, Calif., and is of Ukrainian and Japanese descent. She sings of conviction, not fiction. I find a stirring sense of truth driving that powerful v