Kes the Band filled NPR Mu­sic’s Wash­ing­ton, DC head­quar­ters with the sounds of sweet so­ca mu­sic as they made their Tiny Desk Con­cert de­but with a med­ley of their clas­sic tunes. It’s a per­for­mance lead singer Kees “Kes” Di­ef­fen­thaller has de­scribed as a “full-cir­cle mo­ment of ful­fill­ment” as grac­ing the desk was one of the band’s long-time dreams. In fact, he feels like he just won a mil­lion dol­lars.

The pop­u­lar se­ries gives singers and mu­si­cians a plat­form to per­form stripped-back, in­ti­mate sets for a small au­di­ence, and boasts an av­er­age month­ly view­er­ship of 44 mil­lion across plat­forms.

Sev­er­al in­ter­na­tion­al en­ter­tain­ers have been fea­tured over the years, in­clud­ing Ne-Yo, Dua Li­pa, Dami­an "Jr Gong" Mar­ley, Jill Scott, Ush­er and BTS, among oth­ers. Kes the Band is now the sec­ond T&T so­ca act to join the list, as Machel Mon­tano made his de­but in 2025.