Gaby Moreno: KCRW Live from HQ

Guatemala-born, LA-based Gaby Moreno is fresh off of winning her first Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album with 2023’s X Mí (Vol. 1). Her victory lap includes a stop at KCRW’s Annenberg Performance Studio for her long overdue first official live session with us (she made a guest appearance with Calexico in 2015, and has taken part in KCRW community events). 

Moreno easily makes up for lost time, extending an intoxicating invitation into her trademark melange of blues-rock en Spanglish, heartrending ballads, and a showstopping rendition of the Guatemalan anthem “Luna de Xelajú.” Her band — Sebastian Aymanss (drums), Kimon Kirk (bass), Jim Oblon (guitar), Jebin Bruni (keys), Carmen Camerieri (trumpet), and Sylvain Carton (sax) — brings the heat for a session of standouts from her freshly-released Dusk LP and a few classic highlights. 

See and hear it all in the video at the top of this page. Watch the interview below where she catches up with KCRW DJ Raul Campos about discovering the blues, winning the Grammy, and what she’d ask Ella Fitzgerald if the two could sit down to tea together.