"Celebrating disability, rather than just accommodating it, is the next step in the journey to really valuing diversity," she says. Most recently, she wrote music for the Broadway adaptation of Macbeth – the director of the play first discovered her music from her Tiny Desk concert – which she hopes will help bring disability culture into the mainstream. Since winning, she's toured the world and co-founded a coalition that amplifies disability culture in the music industry. "The Contest definitely changed my life," Lea told NPR Music last year.
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She also has brittle bone disease, which makes it necessary for her to play her instrument in an inventive and unique style. DeskConnect, an iOS and Mac application from the same folks behind the popular Workflow for iOS, has received a major update and is now better than ever.If Apple’s own AirDrop keeps on letting. Send file, text, clipboard, URL or a phone number to another Device registered in DeskConnect: Usage: Contact Action: Dial with iPhone File Action: Send. Her beautiful folk melodies are often rooted in the sounds of Irish fiddle tunes. Gaelynn Lea makes music unlike anyone else. The Duluth, Minn., native won with a video of her song " Someday We'll Linger In The Sun," which she recorded on her phone in the space where she taught fiddle lessons.
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Today, we're taking a moment to highlight one of these artists: the beloved Gaelynn Lea, winner of our 2016 Contest. The eight winners of the Tiny Desk Contest - our annual search for a great unsigned artist to play a Tiny Desk concert - have all gone on to do great things, from performing on world tours to winning Grammy Awards.