Snoh Aalegra is one of the most angelic voices gracing R&B at the moment. I’m sure the Swedish-Iranian singer was on many people’s wishlist of artists to appear on NPR Tiny Desk and that dream has now become a reality. Her songs conjure the kind of intimate atmosphere that would obviously translate well to the series’ stripped-back performances. 

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Watching her perform her velvety tracks, her singing appears just as effortless as it sounds. Her Tiny Desk setlist mostly consisted of cuts from her 2019 sophomore album, – Ugh, those feels again, which propelled her closer to stardom and earned her Swedish Grammy nominations. From that project, she performed “Love Like That”, “I Want You Around”, “Find Someone Like You” and “Woah”, which received a remixing by Pharrell last week. She dove further back into her catalog for “Fool For You” from her 2017 debut. This song attracted much love through her appearance on the “COLORS” web series. 

Snoh Aalegra remains a favorite on our R&B-centric Spotify playlist, “R&B Season”, which is updated weekly with new releases and throwbacks that fit the calming vibe. You can listen and subscribe to that here. 

Setlist

• “Love Like That”
• “I Want You Around”
• “Whoa”
• “Fool For You”
• “Find Someone Like You”

NPR’s Tiny Desk series shows some of our favorites in an intimate lights. Freddie Gibbs, Megan Thee Stallion, Dave, and Burna Boy have paid visits in recent times. Artists who are typically seen performing on major stages post up in a small office, typically with a live band, and deliver stripped-down versions of some of the biggest songs in their catalog.

This week, NPR blessed us with a special performance from 19-year-old Jamaican Grammy-award winning reggae superstar Koffee. She came through with her band and performed a four-song set with some fan favorites like “Rapture,” “Toast,” “Raggamuffin” and “W” without Gunna. 

“I just wanted to say thank you for having myself and my band for Tiny Desk,” she told the crowd after “Raggamuffin.” “It’s a great pleasure for all of us. It’s been a fairly short musical journey and we have seen fairly much success. So I give much thanks and I want to thank everybody who’s involved. You have all become a part of the journey so thank you.”

Koffee recently took home the Best Reggae Album for her 2019 EP Rapture which includes three out of the four songs performed during her Tiny Desk set. While winning a Grammy is an incredible feat on its own, Koffee became not only the youngest person to receive the accolade but also the first female to ever do so as well.