Gaby Moreno Performs At NPR Music’s 10th Anniversary Concert

When Gaby Moreno’s guitar failed her at the start of her set, she borrowed one from Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, with whom she was sharing the bill. But the guitar would barely matter — the Guatemalan singer’s set was, justifiably, defined by the stunning range of her voice, which can move from righteously defiant to cracked and wounded in the span of a single note, from Spanish to English in the span of a set. Moreno’s set opened with two original Spanish-language songs, before moving on to “Illusion,“ a wa