Suraya Mohamed
Suraya Mohamed is the Executive Producer for NPR Music. In this role, Mohamed leads development and production of content across NPR Music's podcasts, programs and shows including Tiny Desk, Alt.Latino, Jazz Night in America, All Songs Considered and NPR Music's acquired shows.
Mohamed has worked in numerous capacities and divisions at NPR, most recently as the senior manager for NPR Music Operations. She oversees partnerships with a variety of organizations, both inside and outside the public radio network. In 2021 she led NPR's efforts to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a full slate of programming across multiple platforms.
She started her NPR career in the audio engineering department where she served in a variety of capacities including the technical director of Performance Today and project engineer for Radio Expeditions, a collaborative groundbreaking project between NPR and the National Geographic Society. Mohamed left NPR to start her own production company and specialized in documentary production, sound design, mixing, and editing where she won three Peabody awards, three Gracie awards and received the NEA Chairman's Award for Distinguished Service for her work on the Jazz Profiles documentary series. For many years, she was an adjunct professor at Howard University's School of Communications, where she taught Advanced Audio Production and Audio Engineering Principles.
A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music with degrees in viola performance and recording arts and sciences, Mohamed has a wide range of musical interests and experiences, and fondly remembers her time as a substitute violist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
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E.U. is an OG of go-go music, a heavily syncopated funk that features a slow and steady groove. Naturally, we celebrate 50 years of the native D.C. music with an office party. -
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.
