El DeBarge: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

NPR Music’s Tiny Desk series will celebrate Black History Month with Tiny Desk (home) concerts featuring legends in the world of R&B, jazz, gospel, and hip hop. Each artist in this legacy lineup has helped to define Black music as we know it and will be performing a Tiny Desk concert for the first time. Bobby Carter | February 4, 2022 Around this time last year, singer-songwriter and R&B royalty El DeBarge took to Instagram to take some requests and play a few hits. “I’d never done anything like that before, and the nerves were showing,“ he told me. That 23-minute live performance ignited a comeback of sorts, and the greats of today, many of whom he’s influenced, wanted to be near him. That video reminded us of his greatness, and stars like Alicia Keys, Fat Joe, and Questlove helped make 2021 a busy year for the torchbearer of the DeBarge moniker. For his Tiny Desk (home) concert, he didn’t want to veer far away from what he did on IG, and I quickly concurred. He got together with guitarist, Bennett Walker t