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- The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit - stripped-down sets, an intimate setting - just a different space.
Bob Boilen | January 27, 2021
There's an elegant vibe as Lous and The Yakuza perform a Tiny Desk from the Book Bar in the Hôtel Grand Amour in Paris. And while the music is smooth, upbeat and warm, what lies beneath in Lous backstory, in her French lyrics, is, at times, deep and disturbing.
Lous - an anagram for "soul" - is Marie-Pierra Kakoma, a 24-year-old artist based in Belgium but born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She came to Belgium because her family escaped war in the Congo. They were refugees. For her Tiny Desk (home) concert, she opens with her 2019 single, "Dilemme." The song conjures up images of growing up in the Congo and Rwanda: "Living haunts me, everything that surrounds me made me mean," she sings in French. Her songs are often set to Congolese rumba rhythms, filled with resilience, beauty and resistance.
These songs come from her 2020 album, Gore, and are steeped in a life that saw her mother imprisoned in the Congo for being Rwandan, then become separated during their escape to Belgium. They were eventually reunited, butLous was a troubled teen and spent a period of time adrift before pulling her life together in pursuit of music and art. There's much to uncover and discover here. This Tiny Desk (home) concert is a deep journey.
SET LIST
"Dilemme"
"Bon Acteur"
"Dans La Hess"
"Solo"
"Amigo"
MUSICIANS
Lous: vocals
Joseph Nelson: keys
Jamiel Blake: drums
Swaeli Mbappe: bass
Ayelya Douniama: vocals
Myriam Sow: vocals
CREDITS
Video: Lenny Grosman, Robin Conrad and Loris de Oliveira
Audio: Charles Darnaud
Directors: Lenny Grosman and Robin Conrad
Camera: Loris de Oliveira
FOH Engineer: Florent Livet
Monitor Engineer: Antoine Lalbat
Production: Jim Schachmes and Brieux Ferot
Stage Manager: Maddly Mendy-Sylva
TINY DESK TEAM
Producer: Bob Boilen
Video Producer: Maia Stern
Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin
Tiny Production Team: Kara Frame, Morgan Noelle Smith
Executive Producer: Lauren Onkey
Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann - เพลง
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😢 I live in Argentina
😍😍😙😙😇🥲😋🤑🤗😝🤭🤭🤭🫡❤️🔥❤️🔥🫀beahtzlaha❤from Isr🪻🪻⚘️⚘️⚘️🇫🇷🇬🇫🇮🇱🇮🇪
I loved to come. In paris the concert?❤
Ma fille s'appelle Sarah Lous. Elle vouse ressemble.. en plus clair.. on est Lavkannim...❤❤❤Bizz yakouza c ma 2eme fille.. la meme Coupe de cheveux vous avez..❤ Et le meme discours aussi..❤😅et moi.. je suis le tous ensemble?🎉❤❤❤on est toutes dans le meme racine carre🫠😉😘😘😘
Tu 😮😮
I was sold at "Hello guys"... Her voice is just...
Okay?!
legitttt
@Akinyi Kong'ango .... you are adorable 😍
that tone! YESSSS
Nyar Akinyi, kabissa!
2024 and I can’t keep myself from coming back to enjoy this masterpiece. Simply mesmerizing.
Ditto!!!!!? 🎉🎉🎉
Tiny Desk is better than the Grammy , American music awards and BET and anything else. They show case real artist ad musicians, not what’s just popular. I get everything here, Jazz, real R&B and more. Thank you Tiny Desk!!!
👍🏾
Second that!
Jazz, Hiphop, R&B, Pop, Rock, Folk, Classical adjacent, Instrumental, vocal, Funk, Country... it's dope
Well you’ve listed white institutions. Yes including Bet its all white owned
❤❤
Woah the drummer plays soooo smoothly. Every single of the fast beats on the hi hat, the snappy closure, the sharp sidestick , the great timing... Such a pleasure to listen.
The whole band is simply amazing.
The drummer's cymbals are very nice, does anyone know which one?
Really good. Real music. Npr tiny. Desk. Legend
This is the perfect example that music is a language of it own. I don’t know French, but this spoke to my heart and soul. Wow! Amazing! Black girl magic 😍😍
All of them look beautiful. I just love no matter the shade of the black when the soul is good people just ooze that magic.
might wanna checkout Joanna, Yelle, and Claire Laffut ❤️
what is black girl magic
Must of us dont understand english but react likewise concerning u guys! 😘
Should check her latest album. It’s fire!
The bassist is relevant and on point . He knows what he is doing . He sounds great with dem pedals .
Everything here was amazing, but that guy, he left me spechless
You should Check his father
he also plays with Mayra Andrade's amazing band
@@bettinamd She has a beautiful voice too.
100% agree. The bass sound is fantastic.
Finally a French speaking singer in Tiny Desk Concert... and what an amazing voice ! Merci Lous and the Yakuza, vous êtes magnétique.
The performance of Stromae at Tiny Desk was just uploaded. Might be something for you :-)
I'm ready for Christine and the queens
I've listened to this at least 50 times now. I'm still amazed at the feel, groove,, musicianship, arrangement, recording, mix and overall atmosphere every single time. I absolutely adore this performance, every little detail of it.
Thank you everyone involved so much for putting this out there for me to bathe in the joy of listening to it.
The tiny desk version is so good.
Oh yes..
Agree 100%- great band, great backup singers bringing their A game to support a supremely artist. Great TD session!
Just listening to this makes me feel 10% chiller and sexier. It's contagious! Also whoever did the lighting for this *chef's kiss*
Yes! Acoustic café and spoken word vibes all night
@@rogue_ingenuity aq
Honestly the live recordings sound so much better than the studio versions
100% agree
100%
I am not 100% with you but i do think it allows them to show artists from more places.
Not sure what you mean because this is technically a studio recording.
@@5amJones69 few people do studio recordings live in one take
Y'all, she's in John Wick 4! Absolutely love her and this Tiny Desk!
Her voice is raspy, sultry, noir, and all things dipped in red velvet
She exudes sultry, feminine energy. Not sure what she's singing about yet, but that's a testament to the music. The vibe & feeling translate despite understanding the language.
That’s so true, a part of me feels as if I’m missing something though.
@@sonsoc_9772 The lyrics are insanely good, true poetry put to music. A lot of feminine energy, wisdom, tons of lived life experiences that she has learned from and will not let herself forget ever. I hadn't heard of her until 5 hours ago, but I am so in love with this creative groove, huge fan already. She is on fire along with the rest of the talent along side--what a dynamic group!
It's FRENCH 😉
SO RIGHT!!!
My feels exactly, never heard of them before but clicked and got stuuuck
Note to self, "Self, learn French"
editted...
Merci pour votre soutien.....
Je souhaite à Lous et aux Yakuza beaucoup de succès dans l'avenir ... à vous aussi
Yes
QUI QUI 😁
Not worth it
Note to you, bon courage.
@@bCkzSael j'allais dire, "bon chance"
Anyone in 2024❤
I didn’t understand one word of the lyrics but I watched the entire thing! Couldn’t stop watching I loved her and the Yakusa! Gained a new fan!
Find the lyrics, it's really really beautiful
Her energy is imaculate, she's really one of the best francophone artist out and deserves everything that's happening to her, please do not forget to stream GORE of course the album is genuilely incredible :p
Yeaaaas we stan this belle femme. Come thru Lousita.
can we take a minute to appreciate how beautiful these people are?!
So true 😍
You're so right
Beauty shouldn't matter as much as it does in music, but sure, it doesn't hurt
We have taken 18:21 just to do that!!
I was thinking exactly the same 😍
I'm from Russia and I used to listen to and play a very different music but this stuff was profoundly heart-touching although I don't know French. Yet another confirmation that music is the universal language. Thank you guys for this warm performance!
Slava Ukraini
абсолютли агри!
Give some love to the drummer (awesome cross sticking technique) and the brothers on keys and bass. Got it locked on and groovy yeah 👍
Don't have a clue what's she saying, but still sounding 🔥🔥🔥
This is french language.
French language ;-)
The description mentions some of what her lyrics are based on!
Lol my same comment. We know it's French but still don't know what is being said. Its still a vibe for sure. 😊❤
@@douse89 These are mostly love songs. (I'm french)
Her aura,her songs,her voice,her lyrics, her everything shes so mesmerising and insanely talented and to think this is her first album is INSANE and she has such a nice way with words in her interviews she seems so swest, shes so talented and amazing i hope she becomes bigger in the future
sure... she will. during that set, and that's the first time, glimpses in her smile, in her hands, her words were sometimes remembering me... serge gainsbourg. do not want to compare, because she is unique, but she is really ... 'classieuse'
July 2023 I Don't give a F ,what she saying.
My queen got my singing like Im French!! This my rossetta stone
Lovely, it just all fits. The husky voice, the immaculate timing of the band, the clear backing vocals, the original songs and unusual melodies, it's all so well done.
You know the feeling when you find some really great music and want to share it to your friends but none of them gets excited? Like at all. So yeah that's why I only comment here. Thank you NPR for these great concerts!
Uhh I feel u
yesss ;(( feeel u
I agree
Change your friends
I feel you as well!.
No clue what she’s saying but I’M HERE FOR IT and singing my little heart out with the nananas 😂 loooove the vibe
Looool! RIGHT?!!! SAME
Its french
@@andrelopes3003 bien sûr ??
Yes!! 😁💃🏿💃🏿🔥
😂
Anyone here in 2024??
❤
❤
00:12 "Dilemme"
03:23 "Bon acteur"
06:50 "Dans la hess"
10:10 "Solo"
15:15 "Amigo"
Thank you very much!
Merci beaucoup 🤗🤗‼️
🤝
Bass kills it
isn't it "Dans la hess" ?
the drummer is fire
Hahaha
The Bassist 🔥
Fact..... I love the whole band
@@romanoawaseb9435 yea he's killing it
drummer and bassist ! they do they job perfect !
I may not understand French but this was beautiful and I love her speaking voice. Yess black girl magic for sure !!! 😻😻🤩
You should check out Billie Ellish Tiny desk also surprised me didn't know Billie had so much white girl magic I judged her wrongly,. This girl is defo a Black queen and owns the French language.
@@bennybennyson1079 “white girl magic?” Ugh
@@myishenhaines1706 Yea love me some White Girl Magic. Louis and the Yakuza is some top notch Black Girl magic also/
@@bennybennyson1079 ...just...why😭
❤
The singer is mesmerizing (she knows how to play in front of the camera, and she has a beautiful & versatile voice), but I must recognize I got catched by the pretty dope basslines :) well played dude !
Top 3 of my favorite Tiny Desk Videos. I've always loved her music/sound/etc. But THIS is what a "live" performance should be. She takes her classic songs but re-invents/arranges them in this orchestration. And her musicians are KILLING it here! Love this sound. She should release this as its own audio project. Makes me so happy!
Her skin is amazing. It's glowing gold.
This version is SO MUCH BETTER than the album version.
Both are fantastic
Live Band > everything
It always is my friend 😄
Can’t agree more! It’s sooo good! Everything! Perfect setting.
@@MissBeeTV definitely not always hahaha
Still listening to this monthly. One of the best mixed Tiny Desk sessions. Sounds absolutely fantastic
Don't even understand French but I'm feeling this vibe 💃💃💃
I want to speak the language of that bass.
All my depressing years of learning french are finally repaid!!!
@@dawnwright7140 "my babies"🥺, you sound like a really amazing teacher that deeply cares about their students. We ALL benefit from teachers like you. Especially the kids who don't have great home lives. Your students are lucky to have you.
Oh good for you. I speak spanish and learned english so understanding the real meaning of song its very difficult. Like the song "Amigo" I love it but dont get it jeje
😂😂😂
Keep going. Good luck!
being a native I have to focus to get the bulk of what is being said, so you must be a master at my language. And it is french from Brussels, Belgium, adding another unusual accent to the layers of comprehension. So, me being doubtful of your claim is an understatement. big understatement
That's intensely hard to harmonize with how rythmic the lyrics are delivered and yet they all time it perfectly. Pretty cool.
Never thought I'd be so drawn in to lyrics I don't understand. The vibe is amazing 💜🤍💙
Ok first off, her raspy voiced intro got me. Her whole set was a vibe.
Congo continues to produce a generation the most talented musicians, take, for example, Marie-Pierra Kakoma aka Lous and The Yakuuza. You don't have to speak French to enjoy her music.
You don't have too speak anything to enjoy good music
That's the power of music
facts ..... congolaise have the melodies on lock 🔐 !!!!! Such great musicians and singers.
You are correct
Any other suggestions?
@@cflo32 listen to KOKOKO! Amazing Congolese band
Listening in my car on the way back to London! Forever vibes 😎
Lovliful ❤
Here in 2024.
Can we take a minute to appreciate the beautiful, mystical and pure vibrations this goddess with her band radiates?!
❤
True that, deep beauty
That changed My Mental Conditions..Spiritually and whatever makes me Skeevy
No. She's just a girl
💞
drum&bass are just killing me
they are incredible!!
I listen to this about 10x/week...for my self-care...and don't even speak French.
The best performance on tiny desk. Thank you so much Lous and the Yakuza
agreed
First song : "If I could I would live Alone, away from problems & dilemas, far from my chains and from the people I like."
Second song : you re a good actor but i am looking for your motor, before leaving, just look inside if there is not bits of me remaining -a love song where she share love but would like her beloved not to act but to be.
Third song: she would like to make money to help her brothers and sisters in despair ("dans la hess" in Arabic-French slang) even though the world is not going well
Fourth song : since birth we are promissed everything but in exchange we must remain quite and shut the f*ck up, should I shout to be heard ? Whatever we do or say, we remain "solo" - she analyses our behaviors - Parle allez parle allez dis moi ce qui te gêne : "Talk to me hey talk to me hey tell me what bothers you"
Fifth and final song: Amigo. Life isnt kind, future has eyes, watch yourself, help, there are hidden behind walls
Thank you for your help! Wonderful!
Thank you🙌🏿🙌🏿
Thank you so much for translating! Always good to understand the content
The song is BEAUTIFUL thank u for that translation. I love this group 1st time hearing them. Wow!
That was super-kind of you to do for us - thank you
I hope we all appreciate back singers here too, they brought this to completely another level!! such a great team work!
yeah right? incredible!
They were so on with everything, locked in together.
True
I appreciate you tho haha what’s your IG?
@@BlackShinobi. @austeja.cheg
"Cause we shining" she says. I couldn't agree more. They do shine, one could go blind watching them.
its the breath she took before starting to sing solo, I melted
Whattt she did a tiny desk and no one told me, what is the TH-cam algorithm doing?? Everything she does is 10/10
il y a un peu plus du 1 an je la découvrait avec "Dilemme" et aujourd'hui elle fait son Tiny Desk...... je suis joie et émotions
La même!
Franchement elle a pas de temps à perdre cette petite ♥️
the back up vocalists are fire as well..sounds sweet.😍😍😍
How TF is everyone so attractive in this band? Music is so dope too!
Takes me back to that moment I first heard Sade
Omg I never thought I'd see this one!!!!
I just realized this is my first time hearing her speak English. Every interview I have seen she is speaking french.
I'm french and I finally find the reason why I can tell that's worth it to learn french language.
How the cameras capture the richness and variety of Black people's skin tones is one of the things that makes this so enjoyable to watch! So many recorders and cameras do our gorgeous skin a disservice.
This was my "drop everything what you're doing and watch this npr-perfomance"-video. I adore her so much, she never disappoints.
C'est propre en tout cas! Le flow, l'attitude, la qualité technique, le choeur bien calé, pas de fausses notes, et Dieu sait que ce n'est pas facile d'avoir un flow aussi rapide et de chanter juste en même temps! good job !
surtout en français ! Good Job, excellent même !
Tu sais ce que tu dis
Wesh elle a assuré de ouf
Marie Pierra Kakoma - Lady Dj from John Wick 4. ♥️
2024 still in rotation!
The French language is so poetic. Her voice is so beautiful and the band is 💯 ❤️
Can we discuss her fire background singers too?
0:00 - *Dilemme*
3:23 - *Bon Acteur* (6:22)
[6:50] - *Dans La Hess*
10:08 - *Solo* (14:50)
15:14 - *Amigo*
[18:04 - Tiny Desk team]
Bravo... pour ce retour d'informations 👍🏽🙏
Merci !
🙏🏿
Her speaking voice is giving me Whitney vibes - paired with her beauty, talent, and cool confidence 💙what a gift
This band is the whole VIBE
I can't get enough ❤❤❤❤❤
I wish she did "tout est gore" that would've SLAPPED acoustically. UGH, LOVE this tiny desk!
YESSSSS
Wow the sound engineers at NPR are top notch! The artist is the art, the engineers are the artists.
Si
on every video there is 100 comments like this, we know they're great pls stop
@@markoplecic9385 and they deserve a million more comments like this, in fact a billion. So, no.
So true. Have to recognize the amazzing souls behind all of this
@@ahwanpandey I agree 1000%
How does this only have 5.4 million views when I have listened to it at least 5.3 million times?
R&B...the international language. Fabulous, start to finish.
Thank you Tiny Desk for appreciating Lous' talent and spreading the love
I was listening to this recording for the nth time and it occurred to me that I have never encountered somebody with a smile that SOUNDS as beautiful as Lous' smile. It's a rare trait indeed.
I mustve played this like 50 times already.
I know they are a dying breed, but the Yakuza have surely gone a different direction in life since I last heard of them
They're collecting the world's debt to good music Haha
This HAS to be one of my top tiny desk performances
Mine too.
Zannamaya Stone SAME!
Please share the other on your list. If you liked this, there’s a good chance I can take some from your list.
Ella es una diosaaa, por ella me metí a estudiar Francés ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Creo que haré lo mismo jejejje
Same. Ja
Hard Language Yes
I don't understand a word but I'm outchea vibin for days😅❤️
Feeling the vibes, huh!
Don't speak a word of French... This is 🔥🔥🔥
0:13 - Dilemme
3:22 - Bon acteur
6:51 - Dans la hess
10:08 - Solo
15:15 - Amigo
merci
Thank you, muito obrigado, merci
@@rn7351 de rien
merci chère!!!!!
Thanks
How is this only at 4 million?
The bass line 🔥
etienne mbappes son...man they are from another planet
You know that feeling when the sun shines on your face, when someone catches your eye and smiles radiantly at you, when your day goes better than you expect, when a kiss is perfect, when you get butterflies, and so on...
that’s what this is, in visual realms and the music.
Exquisite.
Beautiful 🥰 thank you
Such a wonderful written visual. I SEE it and I’m elated.
YOU NAILED IT WITH THIS COMMENT!!!!!! COULDNT HAVE EXPRESSED IT BETTER! IVE BEEN VIBING W/ THESE 3 SONGS EVERYDAY THE PAST 2 WEEKS. I HAVE NO IDEA THE TRANSLATION... AND LOL I'd like to keep it a mystery so to speak lol but even translated, I'm sure they would sound just as beautiful! YES, I CAME ACROSS THIS TINY DESK ON A RAINY BLAH DAY AND IT WAS LIKE I FOUND THE LOVE OF MY LIFE MUSICALLY. LOL .... LIKE I SAID, YOU NAILED IT WITH YOUR COMMENT!!! BEAUTIFULLY EXPRESSED !!!! SO YOUR JUST AS BEAUTIFUL LOL !!! RESPECT !!!!
Ain’t Neva lied!
Thank you
I dont speak french . nothing the les . I love her voice and her band very powerful,
ITS 2024 AND WE HAVE THIS GEM
The DIASPORA, Ladies and Gents. Bravo!
Words cannot express how much I love this woman 😩, she makes me want to learn French lowkey. There wasn’t a single skip in her recent album. I dead smiled when she said Dan les hess is her favorite song because I love that song ❤️.
Cant stop watching this 😭
This singer is a GODDESS, everything in her is extremely beautiful
How is it that her speaking voice is even sexier and more luscious than her singing voice imo
frrr and the fact that she’s congolese,, we love some representation💓
@@mariekawaya8841 yes 😘🇨🇩
Check out Arlo park
@@mariekawaya8841 ah bon aza congolaise ?
@@fidalvyyams179 exact aza congolaise avec un supplément rwandaise
You can tell she really loves the music she’s performing. What a queen
Una verdadera REINA!!!.
Honestly? It can’t get any better than this. Power trio sounds prettyyyy powerful!
I wish there were more groups like this. As a matter of fact I really wanted them to come and tour the US. It’d be amazing!
Here 2024 ❤
Neeeeeeed this live performance dropped as a ep or something on Apple Music/ Spotify/ etc. this is so good
for real!!
So it's legal for this sort of person to exist. She's a God. That's insane. She's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen and heard
Goddess ;)
Completly agree
Shout out from Brazil 🇧🇷✌🏾
Lous, vous êtes sublime, vos yakuza aussi. Il y a du flow, des harmonies, du sens et des sons, une puissance douce... merci de vous livrer à nous
6:47 this "black girl magic" had me melting!! She's absolutely gorgeous, her voice is ethereal and I just love this entire performance. Well done Lous (and the band)!