{"id":41016,"date":"2020-01-29T10:37:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T09:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/koffee-sings-her-raggamuffin-at-tiny-desk\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:33:14","slug":"koffee-tiny-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/koffee-tiny-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"Koffee sings her &#8216;Raggamuffin&#8217; at Tiny Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/event\/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=799347132&amp;mediaId=799350446\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>&lt;<\/p>\n<h4>NPR unveils the\u00a0Tiny Desk of the talented and\u00a0precocious\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/koffee\/\">Koffee<\/a><\/span>, who just become\u00a0the first woman and youngest winner of the &#8220;Best Reggae Album&#8221; award<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> at the <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/grammy-2020\/\">last Grammy Awards<\/a>.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Awarded by the music industry&#8217;s supreme prize Grammy for her very good EP Rapture released in March 2019, the 19-year-old Jamaican singer continues her amazing feat and her irresistible rise by going to NPR. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a fairly short musical journey and we have seen fairly much success,&#8221; Koffee\u00a0told with humility inside the NPR Music offices just after her interpretation of, &#8220;Raggamuffin&#8221;, one of the EP&#8217;s flagship tracks for which she win a Grammy.<\/p>\n<p>Koffee\u00a0gives great interpretation of her most famous songs like\u00a0&#8220;Raggamuffin&#8221;, &#8220;Rapture&#8221;, &#8220;Toast&#8221;, &#8220;W&#8221; with the help of her musician:\u00a0Stephen Asamoah-Duah on drums, Stephen Forbes on percussion, Nana Pokes on bass, David Melodee on keys, Thomas Broussard on guitar, Zhayna France and Shanice Drysdale on vocals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35897\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/9e55d334-koffee-tiny-desk-npr.jpg\" alt=\"Koffee Tiny Desk NPR\" width=\"944\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/9e55d334-koffee-tiny-desk-npr.jpg 944w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/9e55d334-koffee-tiny-desk-npr-759x367.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/9e55d334-koffee-tiny-desk-npr-661x319.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/9e55d334-koffee-tiny-desk-npr-465x225.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/9e55d334-koffee-tiny-desk-npr-375x181.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35898\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/22bd9949-koffee-tiny-desk-npr-.jpg\" alt=\"Koffee - Tiny Desk NPR -\" width=\"947\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/22bd9949-koffee-tiny-desk-npr-.jpg 947w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/22bd9949-koffee-tiny-desk-npr--759x365.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/22bd9949-koffee-tiny-desk-npr--661x318.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/22bd9949-koffee-tiny-desk-npr--465x223.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/22bd9949-koffee-tiny-desk-npr--375x180.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt; NPR unveils the\u00a0Tiny Desk of the talented and\u00a0precocious\u00a0Koffee, who just become\u00a0the first woman and youngest winner of the &#8220;Best Reggae Album&#8221; award at the last Grammy Awards. 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