The Houston Filipino Street Festival is back with even more star power in Sugar Land this October, including with headliner ...

We received nearly 7,500 entries from independent artists across the country for the Tiny Desk Contest. That's a record for the project, now in its 11th year, which has catapulted the careers of ...

Last weekend, 2025 Contest winner Ruby Ibarra wrapped up this year's 10-city Tiny Desk Contest On The Road tour. The shows were a celebration of music discovery, featuring local artists who submitted ...

Last weekend, 2025 Contest winner Ruby Ibarra wrapped up this year's 10-city Tiny Desk Contest On The Road tour. The shows were a celebration of music discovery, featuring local artists who submitted ...

Ruby Ibarra, a Filipino-American rapper from the Bay Area known for her potent storytelling, made her debut on NPR’s Tiny Desk this week. Chosen among 7,500 entries from independent artists across the ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. See Senior Director of TV Programming Meredith Speight’s recommendations from ...

When arriving at the Tiny Desk, Ibarra was poised, gracious and a little reserved. We could tell she was taking in the moment that she would later call "surreal." But as soon as she got situated ...

Chosen from nearly 7,500 submissions from independent artists across the country, Bay Area artist Ruby Ibarra captivated the judges with her striking originality, lyrical depth and commanding presence ...

The winner of NPR’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest is the Bay Area’s own Ruby Ibarra. A research scientist and fiercely poetic lyricist raised in San Lorenzo, Ibarra raps in English alongside the Filipino ...