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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 ...
Bay Area rapper Ruby Ibarra has been crowned the winner of this year’s NPR Tiny Desk Contest. Ibarra, a Filipino rapper who ...
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 ...
Ruby Ibarra's 'Bakunawa' has her rapping in Tagalog, Bisaya, and English backed by the super astig all-woman band of Pinay Voltron ...
Filipino-American rapper Ruby Ibarra has been named the winner of NPR’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest, standing out among nearly ...
Bay Area native Ruby Ibarra has won NPR’s 2025 “Tiny Desk” Contest. The Filipina American rapper beat out nearly 7,500 other ...
Ibarra and her band's performance of "Bakunawa" impressed the 2025 Tiny Desk Contest judging panel, earning high praise from ...
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, ...
NPR Music's Robin Hilton announces the name of this year's Tiny Desk Contest winner. Every year since 2015, a different ...
The Fairfield artist will embark on the Tiny Desk Contest on the Road tour, which includes a stop in Petaluma on Friday, June ...