At one of the megastar's typical performances, you might find Austin Post standing alone on a vast stage, shirtless... Recently, though, the singer sat down on the set of NPR's Tiny Desk concert series in an unassuming, tchotchke-filled corner of a Washington office to perform a handful of his songs with a larger ensemble: 12 musicians, including four backup vocalists and four string players, rearranging his hits to highlight multipart harmonies and the twinkle of acoustic instruments.
Gradually, over its 15 years of existence, the Tiny Desk series has come to host some of the biggest names in music artists like Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys and Harry Styles. That's something of a coup, given its roots.
By the time the Tallahassee star performed a Tiny Desk concert, in 2014, his use of Autotune as a musical signature had led plenty of casual listeners to assume the pitch-correcting tool was hiding a weak voice. Even fellow artists complained that he was polluting the industry. T-Pain used his Tiny Desk performance to demolish the idea that he lacked talent, sitting beside a piano...
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