May 13, 2025 • NPR Music's Robin Hilton announces the name of this year's Tiny Desk Contest winner. Every year since 2015, a ...

The winner of NPR’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest is the Bay Area’s own Ruby Ibarra. A research scientist and fiercely poetic ...

The Bay Area rapper will embark on a 10-city tour this summer, with stops in Los Angeles, Petaluma, Portland, Chicago, ...

Bay Area rapper Ruby Ibarra has been crowned the winner of this year’s NPR Tiny Desk Contest. Ibarra, a Filipino rapper who ...

Bay Area native Ruby Ibarra has won NPR’s 2025 “Tiny Desk” Contest. The Filipina American rapper beat out nearly 7,500 other ...

Ruby Ibarra's 'Bakunawa' has her rapping in Tagalog, Bisaya, and English backed by the super astig all-woman band of Pinay Voltron ...

Ibarra and her band's performance of "Bakunawa" impressed the 2025 Tiny Desk Contest judging panel, earning high praise from ...

The Fairfield artist will embark on the Tiny Desk Contest on the Road tour, which includes a stop in Petaluma on Friday, June ...

NPR Music's Robin Hilton announces the name of this year's Tiny Desk Contest winner. Every year since 2015, a different ...

Host Juana Summers talks with Ruby Ibarra, the Bay Area rapper who won this year's Tiny Desk Contest. Her winning entry, "Bakunawa," is inspired by Filipino mythology and the birth of her first child.