Daniel Caesar — NPR Tiny Desk, 2026

Daniel Caesar’s Tiny Desk Concert for NPR Music, filmed at the network’s Washington, D.C. headquarters and published on 5 January 2026. Eight years after his celebrated 2018 appearance, the Canadian R&B and soul singer — born Ashton Simmonds in Toronto — returns to the desk with a stripped-back yet richly voiced setup: an upright piano, a guitar and a twelve-piece choir that wraps the arrangements in gospel harmony. The full performance spotlights his 2025 album “Son of Spergy” across five songs — “Rain Down,” “Emily’s Song,” “Moon,” “Who Knows” and “Sins of the Father” — moving between intimate confession and collective lift. Known for “Get You,” “Best Part” and the album “Freudian,” Daniel Caesar reaffirms his spare songwriting and silky falsetto. This live video shows the Tiny Desk format at its most organic — no studio gloss — in service of a gospel-tinged contemporary soul repertoire, and stands as a counterpart to his 2018 set for the same series.