Laurie has released twelve bestselling, award-winning albums: Whaddaya Think Of That (1997) Buzz Buzz (1998) Victor Vito (1999) Under A Shady Tree (2002) Rocketship Run (2008) The Best Of The Laurie Berkner Band (2010) A Laurie Berkner Christmas (2012) Laurie Berkner Lullabies (2014) The Ultimate Laurie Berkner Band Collection (2014) Laurie Berkner’s Favorite Classic Kids’ Songs (2015) Superhero (2016) and Laurie Berkner: The Dance Remixes (2017). She maintains a busy touring schedule and has performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the White House, among many prestigious venues.
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Laurie also created a ten-chapter Audible Original Series titled Laurie Berkner’s Song and Story Kitchen, which debuted in November 2018. She is a frequent presence on SiriusXM’s Kids Place Live. Her music videos now appear regularly on NBCUniversal’s Sprout House and on The Laurie Berkner Band’s YouTube channel.
and was a beloved presence on the network’s Jack’s Big Music Show series. Laurie was the first recording artist ever to perform in music videos on Nick Jr.
Working with children became the perfect creative outlet for Laurie to express her talents and create something that, she says, “has turned out to be incredibly Rewarding.” After graduation, Laurie spent several years as a children’s music specialist at New York area preschool and day care centers. In high school and throughout college (at Rutgers University), she toured Europe with several choirs and orchestras as a soloist and guitarist. While growing up in Princeton, New Jersey, Laurie was always involved in music, whether singing in choirs, playing in bands, or performing in musical theater. While Laurie never planned to be a children’s performer, looking back on her career it almost seems inevitable. ‘Old MacDonald Had a Farm’ is a great song for kids, but I couldn’t sing it 100 times!” I’m also thinking about whether I want to sing it over and over again, so I guess that’s the part that connects with adults. According to Laurie, “When I’m writing a song, I’m thinking about whether the kids will like it and whether I’m going to connect to them through it. It was an ability to gain parents’ enthusiasm for the songs as well. But it wasn’t simply an enormous amount of talent that helped create an entire genre and skyrocketed Laurie to her current position as “the queen of kids’ music” (People magazine). less saccharine, more rocking music that is not dumbed down for children. These days critics widely acknowledge Laurie’s major contribution toward launching what is now dubbed the progressive “kindie rock” movement – i.e. The more I started working on material for children, the more I realized that it opened up creativity in me that I never knew I had.” Writing music for kids has not been a struggle at all. “I’d been performing in rock bands and struggling to write original music.
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Laurie Berkner has been a professional musician since 1992, but her success as a children’s recording artist was a surprise to her.
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