This duet is formed by Gabe Dominguez from Shake Your Peace and Sonya Cotton. I am obsessed. I haven't found voices this soothing...well, ever. Their voices melt together in a way I haven't heard things sung since the older musicals like Singing in the Rain. It's just so crisp and fresh and DANG IT! I just love it! This duet is dedicated to making arrangements of songs they love already (aka they don't do a whole lot of original stuff...but that's okay.) I linked the original versions to the white words. It's always fun to compare these things.
You'll fall in love with them in just this.
Hold On (Originally Tom Waits)
Higher than a Hawk (from the musical "Calamity Jane")
How Tiny Home got its name. (Taken directly from their 100% wind and solar powered website tinyhomemusic.com)
When Sonya first met Gabe back in August of 2007, she discovered to her surprise that Gabe lived in a blue 8’ x 9’ camping tent, precariously positioned high atop the roof of a Latino musician’s collective in San Francisco’s Mission District. Though the tent flapped and billowed in the background, Sonya was unflappable, and to Gabe’s delight, Sonya embraced both the tent, and the tent’s owner with an open heart.
Months passed, and many hours were happily spent in the little tent that was perched two stories above the city sidewalk.
One day when the two were sitting cross-legged on the salvaged U-haul moving blanket which acted as the comforter on Gabe’s twin bed, they observed that for their cramped quarters, they felt incredibly comfortable. They reflected to their amusement that their love for one another seemed to transform a $50 tent bought off of Ebay into a magical little world that was all their own; a safe and beautiful haven separate from - almost floating above - the big world below. It was around this time that Sonya began fondly calling the tent: “Tiny Home,” and even wrote a song commemorating the mini nylon habitat: “The magic of your tiny home, the walls that shake and billow / A fortress nearly twice as strong as any one of wood or stone!”
As time went by and the rooftop tent was packed away and Gabe and Sonya found themselves in other homes (both tiny and big,) the two noticed in the midst of their changing surroundings (as many other lovers have gleefully also noticed since time immemorial) that wherever they went in each other’s company they created between them a tiny home unto themselves: a safe space of coziness, magic, and wonder - no tent necessary.
When considering what to name the musical duo that could musically conjure that same space of coziness, magic and wonder, there was no question of what that name should be: Tiny Home.
You can buy their stuff from their website under the music tab. They have a killer Christmas album and are working on a lullaby album. Not only do they sound amazing, but they are dedicated to being "green" and keeping costs low.
