Raffi in the Media

February 23, 2008

Vista Magazine

A Peaceful Revolution: Interview with Raffi Cavoukian
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October 8, 2007

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. Read more…

September 18, 2007

Step It Up 2007

Raffi on How 'COOL IT' evolved
From his blog on Step It Up 2007 Read more…

June 29, 2007

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. Read more…

May 5, 2007

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. Read more…

February 10, 2007

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 more…

October 26, 2006

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

September 28, 2006

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

July 20, 2006

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.

June 12, 2006

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

June 9, 2006

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

June 7, 2006

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

April 1, 2006

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

November 30, 2005

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

February 28, 2005

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.

February 1, 2005

More Than Money Journal – Issue 39

Money & Children
Turn this World Around Creating a Child-Honoring Society - An Interview with Raffi Cavoukian. Read More