Suraya Mohamed
Suraya Mohamed is a three-time Peabody Award-winning producer, sound designer and editor. She currently serves as the project manager for Jazz Night In America and is a contributing producer on the Alt.Latino podcast. She also produces NPR's holiday specials package, including Tinsel Tales, Hanukkah Lights, Toast Of The Nation, Pink Martini's Joy To The World: A Holiday Spectacular and most recently Hamilton: A Story Of US. You'll also find her work on the Tiny Desk series as either a producer or engineer.
A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music's with degrees in Viola Performance and Recording Arts and Sciences, Mohamed specializes in music and technology. Her Tonmeister (German: "sound master") classification is punctuated by her experience working as both an engineer and a producer in many genres.
With a wide range of musical interests and experience, Mohamed played bass in a high school go-go band, has worked as a substitute violist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and currently performs with a Washington, D.C., indie-rock band.
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In a set that spans Immanuel Wilkins' exceptional catalog, the jazz saxophonist brings the heat to the Tiny Desk. -
The very first K-pop band to play behind the Tiny Desk gives us a decade-long, catalog-spanning medley. -
Breathless and expansive, Kris Davis' layered music is a mosaic of emotional expression. -
Surrounded by mountains, the band plays its biggest hits at 8,000 feet. -
The sweet harmonies of Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig fill a man-made cavern in the historic Smuggler Mine. -
So much more than a singer and songwriter, Connie Lim is a talented storyteller and activist who uses her music to inspire advocacy. -
A dynamic performer con carisma y fuerza, Daymé Arocena sings the blues in a field of inflatable flowers. -
John Oates and John Michel, two Aspen locals, came down the mountain to share a set of easygoing songs among the sage brush. -
While in Tokyo, we happened across this energetic band featuring the unique vocals of Yu Sakai, so we had to bring them to Tiny Desk. -
With a wide range of talents and influences, IDK's music reflects a broad range of his life experiences.
