Almost everybody remembers someone who sang to them. Zakkiyya Johnson's mother sang "Lean on Me" to her while teaching her how to play a keyboard. Linnet Early Husi's parents made up songs about her.
The children’s lullaby label Rockabye Baby is celebrating 10 years of recordings with a new compilation called Birthday Party, featuring lullaby versions of tracks by OutKast, Daft Punk, the Beatles, ...
Bedtime nursery rhymes and lullabies offer some of the best bonding opportunities for parents and their children. These classic rhymes and songs can keep young children calm and engaged and even lull ...
Some things never change. The wind will always rustle through the trees. The sun will always shine. And parents will always sing nursery rhyme lullabies to their children. It’s the way it always was ...
Multi-platinum, 12-time Grammy Award-winner John Legend today announced that he will release My Favorite Dream, an album of sing-alongs and lullabies for children and families, via Republic Records: ...
For three years, the Philadelphia Lullaby Project has been pairing parents with songwriters to write original lullabies for their babies. The group has written and produced about 125 songs. Because ...
When Hunter Chamberlin, a young Portland father, sat down to write a letter to his 3-year-old son, poetry poured out. “You strike like lightning, raining joy on everything,” he wrote to his son, ...
When Wendy Child and her husband, Michael, found out they were expecting their first baby, they wanted to do a pregnancy announcement unique to their story. “We met in the recording studio where I ...
NPR speaks with Claire Bryant, Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Music, and "Ashley," a woman who is currently incarcerated and creating lullabies for her children.