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From Their Desks To Ours: Tiny Desk Concerts From Our 5 Tiny Desk Contest Winners

These five artists make music that is singular enough to stand out among the thousands of others who enter the Contest each year with high hopes of playing at the Desk.
Quinn Christopherson performs a Tiny Desk Contest on May 28, 2019 (Claire Harbage/NPR).

In 2014, we created a music contest in hopes of discovering unknown artists we otherwise might not get to hear. Each year since, thousands of unsigned musicians from across the country have sent us videos of themselves performing their.

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