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Join the Tiny Desk Contest community: an invitation from 2022 winner Alisa Amador

Amador shares how the Contest changed her life and reminded her she wasn't alone as an independent musician.
Alisa Amador performs on the Tiny Desk Contest On The Road tour

We recently reached out to our 2022 Contest winner, Alisa Amador, about writing for the Tiny Desk Contest newsletter. She wrote about how the Contest changed her life and her advice to the Tiny Desk Contest community:

Hi. I'm Alisa (ah-LEE-sah). I won the Contest last year, and I never, ever imagined I

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