Raffi in the Media
Vista Magazine
A Peaceful Revolution: Interview with Raffi Cavoukian
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asap (Associated Press)
Can children's music start a revolution?
asap's Hillary Rhodes interviews a folk singer for kids who is trying to reconnect with his now-adult fans to confront world issues.
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Step It Up 2007
Raffi on How 'COOL IT' evolved
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The Global Intelligencer
Vision of a Child Honouring World
Raffi Cavoukian is known to millions of children and their parents as the singer and performer Raffi. His engaging and positive songs (such as Baby Beluga, One Light, One Sun, All I Really Need) not only delight children, but invite them into a caring relationship with the natural world and the global human family.
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Scholastic Parent & Child
Connecting Kids with Mother Nature
A celebrity known best by one name can can figure he's pretty much nestled deep in the public's collective consciousness. And so it is with Raffi, the famous "global troubadour" who charmed millions of kids and parents in the 1980s and '90s with his soulful songs about nature and childhood wonder.
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Georgia Straight
Raffi gets cool
With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently announcing that it is "very likely" (translation: 90 percent certain) that global warming has been caused by humans, the latest project by singer-songwriter Raffi is certainly a timely one. Read
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The Boston Globe
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Loved by children around the world, singer-songwriter Raffi (Raffi Cavoukian ) will be in Boston today to kick off a two-day conference run by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. Read More
The Athenaeum
at the Acadia Theatre
Raffi Cavoukian – the same Raffi we all know from his songs ‘Baby Beluga’ and ‘Bananaphone’ – was at the Acadia Theatre on Sunday night, speaking, dancing, and singing. Read More
Vancouver Magazine
His children's songs live on in playrooms and minivans, but Raffi himself has not performed them for many years. The most "popular children's entertainer in the western world", as the Washington Post called him, is too busy with the anthology he's co-edited (Child Honouring: How To Turn This World Around), the CD he's just released (Resisto Dancing - you haven't lived till you've heard Raffi rap), and the cause that preoccupies him.
Lorrayne Anthony (Canadian Press)
Raffi’s not just for kids anymore
During an interview in a downtown hotel room he offers a taste of his new adult-oriented approach. Read More
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Point Park University
For decades, through his popular children's music and books, Raffi Cavoukian has been practicing what he preaches: That the world can do more for the lives and souls of children. Read More
Saanich News
It's all about the kids
The little people of the world are at the heart of a new anthology of essays co-edited by Raffi Cavoukian - creator of the enduring children's song Baby Beluga. Read More
Resurgence
Child Honouring
Across all cultures we find an essential humanity that is most visible in early childhood - a playful, intelligent and creative way of being. Read More
Shared Vision
Vancouver BC
There’s no defensiveness in Raffi’s chortle as he merrily points
out that The Simpsons also devoted an entire episode to a parody of him and
his music. Read More
Saturday Night Magazine
Raffi Grows Up
His children’s CDs sell like hotcakes, but lately Raffi’s
been singing a different tune and the world is starting to listen.
More Than Money Journal – Issue 39
Money & Children
Turn this World Around Creating a Child-Honoring Society - An Interview with Raffi Cavoukian. Read More