![]() Tokischa lilts the song's chorus and playfully points to the audience. It's a surprising choice for an opener, even more so as a demure bossa nova. She opens with "Perra" - a collaboration she originally recorded with J Balvin and the video for which was criticized for racist imagery against Black women and was eventually deleted from YouTube. Her unfiltered expression has sparked moral panic and, elsewhere, drawn justifiable criticism. The dembow avant-gardist has incensed conservative pundits in the Dominican Republic and abroad. The juxtaposition succeeds uncannily, the kind of artistic strength that lands on the ears of people in power like a threat. ![]() Instead, her performance subverts expectations by foregrounding her celebration of female sexual autonomy, queerness and desire against a backdrop of popular folk genres. ![]() True to her identity as an artist whose performance is aimed squarely at disarming respectability politics, she doesn't sanitize the originals. Tokischa came to NPR with a set of arrangements which, a conversation after the performance, she called "a little more Tiny," reworking her dembow tracks in a melange of other Caribbean and Latin American genres. ![]() 15, Tiny Desk is celebrating Latinx Heritage Month with an El Tiny takeover, featuring Jessie Reyez, Susana Baca and more musicians from all corners of Latinidad. ![]()
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