Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Yasmin Williams sits on her leather couch, her guitar stretched across her lap horizontally with its strings turned to the sky. She taps on the fretboard with her left hand as her right hand plucks a kalimba placed on the guitar’s body. Her feet, clad in tap shoes, keep rhythm on a mic’d wooden board placed under her. Even with all limbs in play, it’s mind boggling that the melodic and percussive sounds that emerge are made by just one musician, playing in real

Yasmin Williams only started playing the guitar after beating all the songs on expert-level on Guitar Hero II. Nine years later, she was a standout of the 2018 Tiny Desk Contest fueled by Lagunitas Brewing Co. Watch her performance from Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at the George Washington University | NPR Music