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

With the force of a rising tide and the pulse of ancestral memory, Ruby Ibarra’s Bakunawa has not only won the 2025 NPR Tiny ...

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

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

Bay Area rapper Ruby Ibarra has been crowned the winner of this year’s NPR Tiny Desk Contest. Ibarra, who grew up in San ...

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

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, ...

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

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