Silvia Pérez Cruz: Tiny Desk Concert

Anamaria Sayre | July 9, 2024
Spanish singer Silvia Pérez Cruz grew up in the cradle of magnificent extremes. Her hometown Palafrugell on the Costa Brava of the Mediterranean sea is renowned as much for its stunning turquoise waters and dazzling summer sun as it is for biting bitter winds and unforgiving winter nights.

Amidst that chaos her songs were born: brilliantly distinct little capsules of human experience. Whether singing about joy, pain, grief or curiosity, that duality between sunshine and gray skies is present in her work.

“Yo soy inescrutable (I am inscrutable),” she cries on “Salir distinto.” Her emotive, jazz-tinged voice and ’54 acoustic guitar (she picked it up at a vintage shop some years ago in New York) transcends time and physical space. “Yo prefiero el desastre / Y escucharte sin perjuicio (I prefer disaster / And to listen to you without prejudice),” she coos. And in this moment, she’s impossible to turn away from — a vessel for eons of melancholic Mediterranean secrets at the Tiny Desk.

SET LIST
“Salir distinto”
“La flor”
“Man of the Trees”
“Mañana”

MUSICIANS
Sílvia Pérez Cruz: vocals, guitar
Marta Roma Tort: cello
Agapit Llibori Albero Tapias: double bass

TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Anamaria Sayre
Director: Joshua Bryant
Audio Technical Director: Hannah Gluvna
Editor: James Hughes
Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Kara Frame, Sofia Seidel
Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Production Assistant: Elle Mannion
Photographer: Alanté Serene
Tiny Desk Team: Maia Stern, Ashley Pointer, Hazel Cills
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins

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