With the force of a rising tide and the pulse of ancestral memory, Ruby Ibarra’s Bakunawa has not only won the 2025 NPR Tiny Desk Contest—it has reshaped the cultural conversation around ...

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“Ibarra’s Contest entry, ‘Bakunawa,’ stunned this year’s panel of judges with its multilingual, intergenerational band and passionate emcee,” writes Elle Mannion of NPR. Despite ...

Chosen from nearly 7,500 submissions from independent artists across the country, Bay Area artist Ruby Ibarra captivated the judges with her striking originality, lyrical depth and commanding ...

Ruby entered the contest with "Bakunawa," which had her rapping in Tagalog, Bisaya, and English, backed by a super astig intergenerational band. The song, which tells a folklore story of the ...

Her Tiny Desk Contest-winning track, “Bakunawa,” was inspired by the dragon-like serpent of Philippine mythology. Ibarra sees the Bakunawa and its banishment from society as a metaphor for the ...

Now we have a new star: Ruby Ibarra, a Filipina American rapper from the Bay Area. Ibarra's Contest entry, "Bakunawa," stunned this year's panel of judges with its multilingual, intergenerational band ...

Ibarra's Contest entry, "Bakunawa," stunned this year's panel of judges with its multilingual, intergenerational band and passionate emcee. When arriving at the Tiny Desk, Ibarra was poised ...

In her debut, Ruby opened her mini concert with "Bakunawa," a song about Filipino folklore and motherhood. Ruby performs in English, Tagalog and Bisaya, switching effortlessly between the three ...

Ruby and the all-Filipino band she assembled for the gig performed three songs — her winning entry "Bakunawa," "7,000 miles," and "Someday" — and repped the Philippines through and through. Where ...

Chosen among 7,500 entries from independent artists across the country, Ibarra secured the top spot for the series’ annual contest with her entry track, “Bakunawa,” which released last fall.