Raffi (musician)

Raffi

Raffi , CM , OBC (born July 8, 1948 in Cairo , Egypt ; actually: Raffi Cavoukian ) is a singer and composer of children's songs.

Life

Raffi lives in Canada . Style elements from calypso , country , folk , gospel , jazz , ragtime and reggae can be found in his music .

The Washington Post named him the most popular entertainer for children in the western world. He was awarded the Order of British Columbia and the Earth Achievement Award of the UN excellent. In the Simpsons episode no. 320 (2004) Raffi is parodied .

In 2000 he founded the Troubadour Institute , which advocates a more child-friendly society. He published his autobiography under the title The Life of a Children's Troubadour . He opposes advertising aimed at children .

Publications

• Resisto Dancing: Songs of Compassionate Revolution - 2006
• Quiet Time - 2006
• Song for the Dalai Lama - Commemorative CD - 2004
• Where We All Belong - 2003
• Let's Play - 2002
• Country Goes Raffi - 2001
• Raffi's Box of Sunshine - 2000
• The Singable Songs Collection - 1996
• Raffi Radio - 1995
• Bananaphone - 1994
• Evergreen Everblue - 1990
• Raffi In Concert With The Rise And Shine Band - 1989
• Everything Grows - 1987
• One Light One Sun - 1985
• Raffi's Christmas Album - 1983
• Rise And Shine - 1982
• Baby Beluga - 1980
• Corner Grocery Store - 1979
• More Singable Songs - 1977
• Singable Songs For The Very Young - 1976

Other publications include concert recordings on DVD and books accompanying the albums.

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1. ^ "The most popular children's entertainer in the western world". Quoted from www.raffinews.com ( memento of the original from November 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
2. ↑ www.protocol.gov.bc.ca

Web links

• Own page (English)
• Raffi on Yahoo! Music (English)
• Raffi in the Internet Movie Database (English)