Benjamin Clementine: Tiny Desk Concert

April 18, 2016 by BOB BOILEN • Right near the top of this performance, Benjamin Clementine looks toward the camera with an intense stare and sings, “Where I’m from, you see the rain / Before the rain even starts to rain.“ At that point, when I’m already hanging on every word, I feel like I’m witnessing an almost otherworldly presence — a visitor with wisdom to impart. Clementine is a musician and poet who grew up in London and later moved to Paris, where as a teenager he slept on the streets at night and b