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MP3 Raffi - Resisto Dancing
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FOLK: Modern Folk, POP: Folky Pop
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RAFFI RENAISSAANCE 2006
The 2006 “Raffi Renaissance” is in full swing with a new book and this CD release.
In the groundbreaking anthology Child Honouring: How To Turn This World Around (ed. Raffi Cavoukian & Sharna Olfman, Praeger, 2006), luminaries from a number of disciplines join the call for a new covenant with the world’s children.
Resisto Dancing, Raffi’s ‘hip hope’ CD of inspirational songs for educators, decision makers, parents, and beluga grads, broadcasts the Covenant and its Principles with an infectious blend of world rhythms, sung with passion and wit.
With Child Honouring, Raffi Cavoukian comes to the world stage as a catalyst for change at a defining point in human history—with an idea whose time has come.
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RAFFI CAVOUKIAN is the founder of Child Honouring, a children-first paradigm for global restoration.
He is a renaissance man known to millions simply as Raffi: a renowned Canadian troubadour, record producer, systems thinker, author, entrepreneur and ecology advocate, once called “the most popular children’s entertainer in the western world” (Washington Post). President of Troubadour Music, among the most successful independent record labels, Raffi was a pioneer in music for children and families: his CDs, tapes, videos, and DVDs have sold over 14 million copies in Canada and the US, and his books, more than 3 million copies. A generation saw him in concert and grew up singing Down by the Bay and Raffi’s signature song Baby Beluga. “Beluga “grads” often tell him they’re now raising their own kids with his songs.
A recipient of the Order of Canada and the United Nations’ Earth Achievement Award, Raffi has recently been awarded two honourary degrees: Dr of Music, from the University of Victoria, and Dr of Letters, from the University of British Columbia. He is associated with many NGOs, including the Council of Human Development, the Darwin Project Council, the Center for Partnership Studies, the Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
In his 3 decade career, Raffi has refused all commercial endorsement offers, and his triple-bottom-line company has never directly advertised or marketed to children. He is a passionate advocate for a child’s right to live free of commercial exploitation. Recently, he sent an open letter to Rogers Wireless urging they stop marketing cellphones to kids, and turned down a Baby Beluga film proposal laden with exploitative advertising and merchandising.
Raffi has become a “global troubadour”, lecturing and networking to help create a viable future: a restorative, child-friendly world for ourselves and for those to come. His original philosophy, Child Honouring, is gaining support among eminent thinkers as a systemic remedy for addressing the major issues of our time. His Covenant for Honouring Children is widely circulated among child development, education, ecological economics and environmental health circles (available for download at https://www.tradebit.com).
Here is a brief sample of Raffi’s recent advocacy:
His November 2001 keynote address (in both word and song) in Anaheim, CA, before 7,000 teachers at the National Association for the Education of Young Children conference was a resounding success.
In 2002 in New York, Raffi sang Turn This World Around, his musical tribute to former South African president Nelson Mandela. “We must turn this world around—for the children”, Mandela had said, at the launch of his 2000 campaign Say Yes for Children (with Graça Machel and UNICEF).
In October 2003, he wrote and recorded Where We All Belong, in support of the Earth Charter, a declaration of interdependence born at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio (which he attended).
Twice he traveled to Dharamsala, India, where he sang at the Tibetan Children’s Village and met with the Dalai Lama. During the Dalai Lama’s visit to Vancouver in the spring of 2004, Raffi performed “Song for the Dalai Lama,” his original composition based on a Tibetan sutra, accompanied by a 90-voice children’s choir and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
In 2005 Raffi presented Child Honouring in word and song at Toronto’s IdeaCity conference, Boston’s Berklee College of Music, the Rethinking Development conference in Antigonish Nova Scotia, and at Dr Sharna Olfman’s Symposium on Children and Society in Pittsburgh. A Colloquium on Child Honouring was held at the University of Victoria where the Covenant for Honouring Children is used in teacher training programs.
This album is both a companion to the anthology, Child Honouring: How To Turn This World Around, and the musical expression of Raffi’s Child Honouring philosophy—a systemic remedy for the unprecedented threats to life at a defining moment in human history. The title song, written for Beluga Grads, is a blend of hip hop, Dylan, Maslow, Shakespeare and more.
“Healthy Individuation requires resisting unhealthy enculturation.”
Abraham Maslow
"A 9 year path birthed this CD and the book, Child Honouring: How To Turn This World Around. In the spirit of “tunza” (Swahili, “to treat with care and affection”), these songs give voice to a philosophy I call Child Honouring. Luminaries such as the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Riane Eisler and Jane Goodall inspired the eclectic blend of styles and rhythms inviting you to embrace a new Covenant: as Mandela said, to “turn this world around , for the children.” Together we can sing—and dance!—a new paradigm into being: a peacemaking culture, a child-friendly world, a world that honours its young."
Raffi Cavoukian
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