Tank And The Bangas is on the mend right now, recording their third studio album with a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist in the bag. The New Orleans-based band with the energetic frontwoman rose to fame in 2017 thanks to the NPR Tiny Desk Contest on YouTube (a whopping 12.5 million views). Bursting at the seams with R&B, hip-hop, jazz, funk and soul grooves, they also invited guests such as Questlove , Lalah Hathaway , Big Freedia , Jacob Collier , Trombone Shorty , Jamison Ross and Wayne Brady to their album, which was bursting at the seams with R&B, hip-hop, jazz, funk and soul grooves.