Patti LaBelle Celebrates Black History Month with Tiny Desk Show

NPR Music’s Tiny Desk series is celebrating Black History Month with Tiny Desk (home) concerts featuring legends in the world of R&B, jazz, gospel, and hip-hop.

Each artist in this legacy lineup has helped to define Black music as we know it and will be performing a Tiny Desk concert for the first time.

Patti LaBelle‘s Tiny Desk show has went viral and has everyone talking, due to the fact nobody can do it like Ms. Patti! With the set-list; “Something Special (Is Gonna Happen Tonight),” “Love, Need and Want You,” “If Only You Knew” and “Lady Marmalade.”

Patti LaBelle had already made Black History with Cindy Birdsong, Sara Dash and Nona Hendryx as the powerhouse group Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles (later Labelle).

After the group disbanded, she forged through on her own as a pioneer in music, style and entrepreneurship. Sixty years and counting.

Whether big stage or Tiny Desk, the standard-bearing icon continues to exude elegance and grace as a performer.

Musicians:
Patti LaBelle: vocals
Stan Lewis: keys/music director
Danny Nixon: keys
Daryl Robertson: keys
Eric Seats: drums
Alex Evans: bass
Eric Dubose: guitar
Jeff Bradshaw: trombone
Melvin Jones: trumpet
Michael Burton: saxophone
Debra Henry Ramsey: vocals
Brenda Roy: Background vocals
Anthony Williams Jr: vocals
Aja Marie Grant: vocals