MR. DAVID’S ROCK’N MUSIC FOR KIDS

About Mr. David

Mr. David recorded his first album for kids in the summer of 2004 at the request of parents and teachers who loved the music he was playing in the classroom. Its folksy, sixties-influenced sound was an immediate hit with his fan base. His second album, The Great Adventures of Mr. David, was named one of the Top 10 Albums for Kids and Families in 2006 by the Fids and Kamily Music Awards. The poll combines top 10 lists from critics, writers, radio programmers, and others involved in the music industry. It was also given the award for Best Recording for Younger Kids Ages 5-8 by the Children’s Music Web Awards (CMWAs), the only international awards that are guided by adults and chosen by kids.

Stefan Shepard (Zooglobble) said of Mr. David’s last album “(it) sounds like nothing else you’ve heard all year. It’s got a sense of wonder and playfulness that will interest kids (and their adults) for a long time. Definitely recommended.” And Warren Truitt, librarian for the Donnell Central Children’s Room of the New York Public Library and blogger for Kids Music That Rocks continued with “it’s an indie rock masterpiece that kids, grownups, college students . . . that everyone will fall more in love with every time they listen to it."

Mr. David lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He first picked up a guitar at the age of fourteen—his mother’s 1965 Karl Hauser. He’s been playing ever since, experimenting with different music genres and styles and studying many of the great songwriters of this century. A near obsessive devotee of The Beatles, his influences run the gamut from Bob Dylan to Johnny Cash and Buddy Holly, touching on Paul Simon and Roy Orbison in between. His appreciation for blues–influenced rock’n roll, with simple, classic melodies and guitar rifts, comes out in much of his own music. He’s willing to use any instrument, from the piano to the conga drum to the harmonica, wash board and everything in between to create unexpected, exciting sounds that get children enthusiastic about singing and moving to music.