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Some of Raffi's best-known children's songs are "Baby Beluga", "Bananaphone", "All I Really Need", and "Down by the Bay". Most of Raffi's children's albums include small, simple, folk instrumentations featuring Raffi's vocal and guitar work.
May 6, 2020 · It’s called I Am Kind: Songs for Unique Kids, by Lindsay Munroe, a wonderful singer who’s a mother of three and lives in Massachusetts. She recorded her voice and the rhythm instruments...
- Down By The Bay. Although Raffi never took credit for this classic song, he definitely popularized it. It deploys a fun rhyming scheme that teaches nouns, verbs and, well, rhyming!
- Baby Beluga. It's astonishing to consider the amount of songs that most would consider to be classics that were written and composed by Raffi. Baby Beluga is his as well.
- The More We Get Together. Raffi's rendition of this classic American children's song is positively therapeutic. Although children often make fast-friends, there are occasions where some education on the importance of friendship is in order.
- Peanut Butter Sandwich. Raffi added his words to an old song to make this rambling song. Although there isn't much education or inspiration for this one, it still is a blast to sing, especially around lunch time.
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- HE’S ARMENIAN-CANADIAN BY WAY OF EGYPT. Raffi Cavoukian’s grandparents fled their homeland during the Armenian Genocide in the 1910s. It was a combination of luck, endurance, and his grandfather's serious knack for art—a talent he used to make fine portraits—that finally brought them safely to Cairo.
- HE’S A HUGE HOCKEY FAN. Getty Images. As soon as his family arrived in Toronto, Raffi became hooked on Canada’s national pastime. In fact, his first musical compositions in English imitated play-by-play commentary broadcast during Hockey Night in Canada games, and often featured the Toronto Maple Leafs, his favorite team at the time.
- HE’S NAMED AFTER A FAMOUS ARMENIAN AUTHOR. Raffi explained in his 1998 autobiography that his first name is a tribute to Hakob Melik Hakobian (pen name: Raffi), a renowned 19th-century Armenian poet and writer [PDF].
- HE WAS A GIGGING FOLK MUSICIAN FIRST … Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.5. By the early ‘70s, Raffi had been regularly performing his and others’ folk tunes in bars and cafes from Toronto to Vancouver and back (his wife Deb, a teacher, was their household's primary wage earner).
Feb 20, 2014 · The Raffi singable songbook : a collection of 51 songs from Raffi's first three records for young children. by. Raffi; Yamamoto, Joyce, ill. ill. Publication date. 1987. Topics. General, Non-Classifiable, Children: Grades 2-3, Children's 4-8, Children's songs, Songs. Publisher. New York : Crown Publishers. Collection.
A renowned singer known by his first name alone, Raffi was a pioneer in quality recordings for children on his independent label, Troubadour. For millions of fans, Raffi’s music was the soundtrack of their childhoods, and they took his signature song “Baby Beluga” to heart.
Jul 5, 2014 · Raffi's been making kids music off-and-on since the 1970s. And his new album, called "Love Bug," is his first children's song album in 12 years.
