![]() ![]() To see Amador perform live, you can get tickets for the Tiny Desk Contest On The Road tour here. Hear "Milonga accidental" below, and listen to our full conversation with Amador above. "I do not take this lightly." She says her friends call these life-changing curveballs "an intervention from the universe." We're so glad Amador took a fifth swing. "And these have been uniquely, painfully, difficult times." Amador admits that just before Boilen called her to let her know she'd won, she had been feeling so tired that she didn't think she could keep pursuing music, but was grieving the thought of letting it go. "A career in independent music is challenging in good times," Amador says. In the past few months, Amador says she had actually been considering an exit from a career in music. Amador says that finding out she won brought on a mix of emotions – both immense excitement and wondering, "Oh my God, what am I going to do with this?" Past Tiny Desk Contest winners have gone on to win Grammy awards and write for Broadway, Kelly points out. "Cuando sabré descifrar mi razón? / Cuando sentiré mi hogar en mi voz?" ("When will I know how to decipher my purpose? / When will I feel at home in my voice?"), she sings in her winning entry. She explains that "Milonga accidental" is an ode to feeling like she doesn't fit neatly into any one box. "It's a really driving rhythm." She says she's always identified with her family's roots in Argentina, Puerto Rico, New Mexico and all of the other places her family is from. "Milgona," from the song's title, "is a folk rhythm from Argentina and Uruguay," Amador tells All Thing Considered's Mary Louise Kelly. For this year, she tried something new: She submitted a song sung entirely in Spanish, with a video that included what she calls an "animated visual translation of the lyrics." This was Amador's fifth year submitting a song to the Contest in the hope that it would earn her a performance behind series creator Bob Boilen's famed Tiny Desk. A songwriter from Boston, Mass., her entry "Milonga accidental" rose to the top of the thousands NPR Music received this year. Today, Morning Edition announced the winner of the eighth annual Tiny Desk Contest: Alisa Amador. ![]() ![]() It was a joyful, moving set from a captivating artist. Today, Morning Edition announced the winner of the eighth annual Tiny Desk Contest: Alisa Amador. Alisa Amador’s music is a synthesis of the many styles she’s voraciously absorbed: rock, jazz, funk and alternative folk, all wrapped in the spirit of the Latin music she grew up with. Alisa Amador: Tiny Desk Concert This year's Tiny Desk Contest winner performed the first Tiny Desk concert with an audience in over 800 days.
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