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Personalised CD's & the power of positive singing
 

A personalized CD has a child's name recorded several times into the lyrics of each song. When a child hears their name throughout the song they immediately open themselves up to a new world of self-expression.  It's a real moment of joy for parents to see their child light up to the sound of their name being sung. The lyrics take on a greater meaning for the child, boosting their confidence. Their imagination is triggered as they live out the positive message of the song while having lots of fun.

For your child to sing a song about themselves makes them feel very special encouraging them to express a sense of self. The educational and positive messages in the Dizzy Love CD were specifically created with the South African child in mind with themes about Table Mountain, birthdays, expressing feelings, animals, and taking care of Mother Earth.

The Singing Hearts Club offers live recordings of each child's name. This means that as we receive orders, we go into the recording studio to sing and record your child's name several times into each song. Lyrics are sometimes adjusted to suit a child's name while preserving the musical quality of the song. The music is uplifting and contemporary to inspire mums and dads to sing with their children.

Dizzy Love is proudly sung in South Africa and is available also as a standard CD for classroom use.

Successful songwriters use certain chord sequences in combination knowing intuitively that those melodies will evoke emotions. The Signing Hearts Club works with this understanding and knowledge in a responsible way to write positive melodies and lyrics for children.

There are also great benefits that come purely from the joy of singing alone or with others. Singing can altar our mood, and inspire us to express what we deny ourselves out of a fear of being rejected or appearing foolish. Singing makes us feel connected and encourages a sense of community. It can liberate our spirit and give voice to what we feel or desire.

Child Psychologists call the intimate communication between mother and baby motherese. When a baby goos and gaas their mother responds with particular tones and melodic phrases to communicate emotions of approval, warning, soothing and love. Research also shows that many children or adults who say they can't sing, had no one in their early years that sang and spoke motherese to them. These babies never had the chance to imitate tunes or fine-tune themselves. By singing to and with your young children, it helps them find their own voice.

Singing also prepares the children's young brains for learning the foundations of language. They build vocabulary and listening skills and learn the patterns in speech, rhythm, rhyme and pitch. Research shows that when children sing, both sides of their brains are activated and stimulated promoting integrated learning and memory.

The Singing Hearts Club also works in schools teaching self-expression via singing and songwriting. Empowering young children and teens with a platform and skills to voice what lives in their hearts by singing their own songs. The program educates learners on what is required to write a song, record it and film it culminating in a class music video to share with the world on YouTube.

 

About the author:

Laura Santoni-Wing is an ex school teacher/ kinesiologist from Australia who is a singer songwriter that specializes in Children's music. She has written texts books for the 2005 curriculum in Arts and Culture for Shuter & Shooter publishers, works for CPUT in Teacher Practice assessment and currently runs her Singing Hearts Club program in schools. Laura is also a mother of two children and lives in Cape Town.
The Singing Hearts Club
Tel: 021 438221

Posted: 18 March 2011

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