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Watch DAWN's Radiant 'Tiny Desk Concert' Debut
Watch DAWN's Radiant 'Tiny Desk Concert' Debut

Watch DAWN's Radiant 'Tiny Desk Concert' Debut

Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

The genre-smashing singer takes the stage behind NPR's Tiny Desk

D∆WN (or sans-stylization, Dawn Richard) is the latest talent to line-up in the DC offices for NPR's smash Tiny Desk Concert series. She follows recent performers Khalid, Dave Chappelle, GZA, and Tyler, The Creator, on the small-screen staple.

WATCH: Dawn Richard Shows Off Her Many Creative Personas In "Stopwatch" Music Video

For her set, the singer took the not-so-tiny stage with a guitarist, electronic drum specialist (blazing through those tripled hi-hats and 808s) and a pair of harmonizing agents, to run through selections from her breakout 2016 album, Redemption, along with "Waves," a swaggering one-off for Adult Swim (where the singer doubles and triples as the late-night network's first black female animator.) She pulls no punches and spares no precision in the tightly-choreographed three song outing.

WATCH: Dave Chappelle Guest Hosts NPR's Latest Tiny Desk Concert

Hit the link below to watch D∆WN 's Tiny Desk debut. Recently, she joined Kimbra on the woozy duet "Version of Me" and flipped Janelle Monae's electric "Pynk" into a chopped-and-screwed gem.

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