Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso — Tiny Desk Concert, 2024

Published on October 4, 2024, this live session by the Argentine duo Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso became one of the most viral Tiny Desk Concerts of the year. Filmed at Bob Boilen’s desk in NPR’s Washington studios, it was part of El Tiny, the programming devoted to Latin artists for Hispanic Heritage Month. The Tiny Desk format — a filmed live session with no PA, in a tiny record-lined space — usually pushes toward restraint; the duo instead showed up with a brass-heavy big band and an offbeat sense of showmanship. Catriel Guerreiro and Ulises Guerreiro, key figures in Argentina’s new urban scene, unfold a genre-blurring mix of trap, funk, jazz and rock. The live session runs through “DUMBAI,” “EL ÚNICO,” “Mi Deseo / BAD BITCH,” “BABY GANGSTA” and “LA QUE PUEDE, PUEDE,” driven by polished horn arrangements and obvious onstage chemistry. This 2024 NPR live session sent their profile soaring beyond Latin America and captures the renewal of Argentine urban pop, balancing humor, musical virtuosity and a deliberately eccentric aesthetic.