Ruby Ibarra, the East Bay’s Filipina rapper, singer and songwriter, will be releasing new music later this year after winning this year’s national NPR Tiny Desk Contest and going on a summer tour.

NBC Bay Area’s Gia Vang sat down with Ibarra at her home and got a more personal look at her life as a mother, daughter and artist.

Inside her home is a room-turned-recording studio. It’s where Ibarra writes and records her music, including “Bakunawa,” a dragon in Philippine mythology.

The song crowned Ibarra and her all-Filipino band the winner of NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest out of more than 7,500 submissions. This summer, the group hit the road on a 10-city tour that included a stop in Petaluma.

“For us to also deliver my music and my stories authentically and show up as ourselves was just a dr

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