- Raffi( Raffi Cavoukian )【 6 albums 85 lyrics 】
- Raffi Cavoukian, CM OBC (Armenian: Րաֆֆի, born July 8, 1948), better known by the mononym Raffi, is a Canadian singer-lyricist and author born in Egypt and known best for his children's music. He developed his career as a 'global troubadour' to become a music producer, author, entrepreneur, and founder of the Centre for Child Honouring, a vision for global restoration.
Personal life
Born in Cairo, Egypt, to Armenian parents, he spent his early years in Egypt before immigrating with his family to Canada in 1958, eventually settling in Toronto, Ontario. His mother named him after the Armenian poet Raffi. His father Arto Cavoukian was a well-known portrait photographer with a studio on Bloor Street in Toronto. His older brother Onnig Cavoukian, known as 'Cavouk', is also a famous portrait photographer. His younger sister is Ann Cavoukian, Ontario's former Information and Privacy Commissioner. His parents died within twelve hours of each other, his mother dying first, of abdominal cancer.
In the early 1970s, Raffi frequented a guitar store near Yonge and Wellesley called Millwheel, where he met other developing Canadian musicians such as David Wilcox and John Lacey. Raffi ran a coffee house at the University of Toronto up until 1980. He befriended Lacey, a folk guitarist from Oakville, Ontario, who helped Raffi improve his finger picking (John went on to become a steel guitar player). 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 he began his career entertaining children.
He moved to Saltspring Island near Victoria, British Columbia, in 2008.
Raffi started his own fund, and now is an environmentalist as well as a musician. - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
- Album name Release Date Song
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Love Bug
2014
1.Love Bug
2.Turn This World Around (Provided)
3.To The Park
4.Pete's Banjo (Provided)
5.This Land Is Your Land
6.Blue White Planet (Provided)
7.Seeing The Heart
8.Cool Down Reggae9.Magic Wand
10.Wind Chimes (Provided)
11.Water In The Well
12.On Hockey Days
13.In The Real World
14.Free To Play
15.Mama Loves It
16.Doggone Woods -
Raffi's Christmas Album
1983
1.Christmas Time's a Coming
2.Up on the House-Top
3.The First Noel / Deck the Halls4.Frosty the Snowman
5.Silent Night / Away in a Manger -
Raffi in Concert [Live]
1.Time to Sing (Live)
2.Medley: He's Got the Whole World / One Light One Sun / This Little Light (Live)
3.All I Really Need (Live)
4.Shake My Sillies Out (Live)
5.Like Me and You (Live)6.Apples and Bananas (Live)
7.Five Little Ducks (Live)
8.Rise and Shine (Live)
9.Tingalayo (Live)
10.Everything Grows (Live) -
Evergreen Everblue
1.One Light, One Sun
2.Evergreen, Everblue3.Big Beautiful Planet
4.Just Like the Sun -
Animal Songs
1.Over in the Meadow
2.Goodnight, Irene3.Octupus's Garden
4.Down by the Bay -
Miscellaneous
1.Banana Phone
2.Aikendrum
3.De Colores
4.On Christmas Morning
5.In My Garden
6.Apples and Bananas
7.Baby Beluga
8.Yellow Submarine
9.Take Me Out to the Ballgame
10.Going to the Zoo
11.Every Little Wish
12.Everything Grows
13.Frosty The Snowman
14.Shake My Sillies Out
15.Little White Duck
16.Bananaphone
17.All I Really Need
18.You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song
19.Day O
20.Wheels on the Bus
21.Brush Your Teeth
22.Mr. Sun
23.Joshua Giraffe24.Blessed Be
25.Rise And Shine
26.If You're Happy and You Know It
27.The More We Get Together
28.Biscuits in the Oven
29.Oats and Beans and Barley
30.This Little Light of Mine
31.C-A-N-A-D-A
32.Day O - Live
33.Baby Beluga - Live
34.Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
35.Five Little Frogs
36.Willoughby Wallaby Woo
37.Kitchen Sing Sing
38.Pick a Bale o' Cotton
39.Workin' On the Railroad
40.Octopus's Garden
41.Brown Girl In the Ring
42.World We Love
43.Like Me and You
44.Human Child
45.You Gotta Sing
46.Listen to the Horses
【Correction of errors in the album information】