Seu Jorge: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert From The Archives

We’ve been filming Tiny Desk concerts for more than 10 years. While revisiting our archives, we discovered that some of our earliest concerts never made it to YouTube! Watch Seu Jorge’s Tiny Desk concert from 2010: Jasmine Garsd | September 13, 2010 Like many in America, the first time I heard Seu Jorge was through his role as a melancholy singer in the movie The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. His rendition of David Bowie classics mesmerized me. The ache of his thick, raw vocals is nearly unbearable. Perhaps it’s something about a burly grown man whose voice seems about to give in to tears that’s simply heartbreaking. Or perhaps it was the shock of hearing Bowie’s music, which in its original incarnation was pure glam rock, sung by a boy from one of Rio de Janeiro’s worst slums. In his newest project, with the company of his fantastic band Almaz, Seu Jorge is far more versatile, almost as if the band were encouraging him to go to that