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Artists from around the world have performed NPR Tiny Desk concerts, ranging from Harry Styles to Feist to Nelly Furtado and more. But not Grammy- and Juno-winning singer Alessia Cara, who shared that Tiny Desk had rejected her, prompting her to create a giant desk concert instead.<\/p>\n
“Well Tiny Desk said no to me a couple times so I exercised free will and built my own!” she wrote on Instagram in a caption below photos of her with her band.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Cara began the video by explaining, “Tiny Desk has refused to have me on many a time, many times, so I decided to make my own. Tiny Desk, my desk is bigger than yours.” <\/p>\n
She then kicked the set off with a relaxed and jazz-inflected version of Middle Ground, from her 2021 album In the Meantime.<\/p>\n
She also played an intimate version of I’m in Trouble, from her most recent album, Love or Lack Thereof, and the love song Nighttime Thing from 2025’s Love & Hyperbole. Other songs such as Shapeshifter, were also pared down and performed.<\/p>\n
WATCH | Alessia Cara’s giant desk concert:<\/p>\n
Cara was also recently on Canada Soccer’s Boi-1da produced album,\u00a0What If It All Goes Right?, which was released on June 5. She sings on the track In My Hands.<\/p>\n
WATCH | The audio for In My Hands:<\/p>\n