RAFFI LP SIGNED AUTOGRAPH SEALED SINGABLE SONGS FOR THE VERY YOUNG 1976

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Description: THIS IS AN AUTHENTICALLY AUTOGRAPHED SEALED LP BY RAFFI.. SINGABLE SONGS FOR THE VERY YOUNG SUNG BY RAFFI-WITH KEN WHITELEY-(SHORELINE SL 0202)LP IS STILL SEALED IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP WITH SMALL PIECE REMOVED FROM COVER FOR AUTOGRAPH BY RAFFI. RELEASED IN 1976. CONDITION OF THE AUTOGRAPH IS EXCELLENT. Raffi Cavoukian, CM, OBC (born July 8, 1948) is a Canadian children's singer. Known to fans by his first name only, Raffi began his career as a children's entertainer in 1974. He has developed his career as a "global troubadour", to become a music producer, author, entrepreneur, systems thinker, and the founder of Child Honouring, a vision for global restoration. Born in Cairo, Egypt, to Armenian parents, he spent his early years in Egypt before emigrating with his family to Canada in 1958, eventually settling in Toronto, Ontario. His mother named him after the Armenian poet Raffi. Raffi ran a coffee house at the University of Toronto up until 1980. He befriended John Lacey, a folk guitarist from Oakville, Ontario, who helped Raffi improve his finger picking. Raffi continued playing folk guitar in various coffee houses in Toronto and Montreal before hitchhiking to Vancouver in 1972 to find "fame and fortune". He returned to Toronto after a few years and was invited to sing for a Toronto public school. Despite his own hesitations about singing for kids, he was an immediate success and thus began his career entertaining children. He moved to Mayne Island near Victoria, British Columbia, in 1990. His father was a well-known portrait photographer with a studio on Bloor Street in Toronto. His sister is Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner. Once called "the most popular children's singer in the English-speaking world" (Washington Post, May 31, 1992) he is well-loved by the children of the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s for his popular children's songs. His autobiography, The Life of a Children's Troubadour, documents the first part of his award-winning career. Some of Raffi's best-known children's songs are "Bananaphone," "Baby Beluga," "Down By the Bay," "Shake My Sillies Out," and "Schmenge Polka." Most of Raffi's children's albums include small, simple, folk instrumentations, prominently featuring Raffi's vocal and guitar work. Early works included contributions from Toronto-area folk musicians, including Ken Whitely and Bruce Cockburn. Raffi also incorporated many world music sounds into his records. Raffi preferred to play in small intimate settings. In his autobiography, he notes that he turned down a very lucrative offer to perform a concert at Madison Square Garden, because he thought the venue was too large for him to connect to children. He also wrote that early in his career, he found it difficult to perform for younger kids (under 3 years old) because their short attention span was distracting to him and to the rest of the audience. This led to a hiatus from children's performing in the mid 1980s. Raffi is currently the president of Troubadour Music Inc., a triple-bottom-line company he founded to produce and promote his work according to his ethical standards.

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