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Music Facts: Children's

  • Children's music and recordings have been around since the advent of the recording industry, experiencing a market boom and growing into a genre all its own in the mid-20th century. 

  • Mixing entertainment with education, children's music and recordings have seen mainstream success via breakout groups and franchises like "Sesame Street," "Schoolhouse Rock!" and Kidz Bop. 

  • Recent GRAMMY winners and nominees in the children's category include the Okee Dokee Brothers, Gustafer Yellowgold and Secret Agent 23 Skidoo. 

  • Joanie Leeds won the GRAMMY for Best Children's Music Album at the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards in 2021 for All The Ladies.

Grammy Awards for Children’s

  • Best Children's Music Album

    Harmony. Harold Simmons II, Aura Valentina Simmons

  • Best Children's Music Album

    Brillo, Brillo!. Lucky Diaz

  • Best Children's Music Album

    We Grow Together Preschool Songs. 123 Andrés

  • Best Children's Music Album

    The Movement. Alphabet Rockers

  • Best Children's Music Album

    A Colorful World. Falu

  • Best Children's Music Album

    All The Ladies. Joanie Leeds

  • Best Children's Music Album

    Ageless: Songs for the Child Archetype. Jon Samson

  • Best Children's Music Album

    All The Sounds. Lucy Kalantari

  • Best Children's Music Album

    Feel What U Feel. Lisa Loeb And Nine Stories

  • Best Children's Music Album

    Infinity Plus One. Secret Agent 23 Skidoo

  • Best Children's Music Album

    Home. Tim Kubart

  • Best Children's Music Album

    I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World (Malala Yousafzai). Neela Vaswani

  • Best Children's Music Album

    Throw A Penny In The Wishing Well. Jennifer Gasoi

  • Best Children's Music Album

    Can You Canoe?. The Okee Dokee Brothers

  • Best Children's Music Album

    All About Bullies... Big And Small. Various Artists

  • Musical Album For Children

    Tomorrow's Children. Pete Seeger

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    Julie Andrews' Collection Of Poems, Songs, And Lullabies. Julie Andrews, Emma Walton Hamilton

  • Musical Album For Children

    Family Time. Ziggy Marley

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    Aaaaah! Spooky, Scary Stories & Songs. Buck Howdy

  • Musical Album For Children

    Here Come The 123s. They Might Be Giants

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    Yes To Running! Bill Harley Live. Bill Harley

  • Musical Album For Children

    A Green And Red Christmas. The Muppets

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. Jim Dale

  • Musical Album For Children

    Catch That Train!. Daniel Zanes

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    Blah Blah Blah: Stories About Clams, Swamp Monsters, Pirates & Dogs. Bill Harley

  • Musical Album For Children

    Songs From The Neighborhood - The Music Of Mister Rogers. Various Artists

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    Marlo Thomas & Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year Long. Marlo Thomas

  • Musical Album For Children

    cELLAbration! A Tribute To Ella Jenkins. Various Artists

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    The Train They Call The City Of New Orleans. Tom Chapin

  • Musical Album For Children

    Bon Appétit!. Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf/Beintus: Wolf Tracks. Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sophia Loren

  • Musical Album For Children

    Monsters, Inc. - Scream Factory Favorites. Riders In The Sky

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly. Tom Chapin

  • Musical Album For Children

    Elmo And The Orchestra. (Sesame Street Characters)

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    Mama Don't Allow. Tom Chapin

  • Musical Album For Children

    Woody's Roundup Featuring Riders In The Sky. Riders In The Sky

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. Jim Dale

  • Musical Album For Children

    The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland. (Various Artists)

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    Listen To The Storyteller. Wynton Marsalis, Graham Greene, Kate Winslet

  • Musical Album For Children

    Elmopalooza!. (The Sesame Street Muppets & Various Artists)

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    The Children's Shakespeare. (Various Artists)

  • Musical Album For Children

    All Aboard!. John Denver

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    Winnie-The-Pooh. Charles Kuralt

  • Musical Album For Children

    Dedicated To The One I Love. Linda Ronstadt

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    Stellaluna. David Holt

  • Musical Album For Children

    Sleepy Time Lullabys. Barbara Bailey Hutchison

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf. Patrick Stewart

  • Musical Album For Children

    The Lion King - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. (Various Artists)

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    The Lion King Read-Along. Robert Guillaume

  • Musical Album For Children

    Aladdin - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. (Various Artists)

  • Spoken Word Album For Children

    Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales. Audrey Hepburn

  • Best Album For Children

    Beauty And The Beast - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. (Various Artists)

  • Best Album For Children

    A Capella Kids. (The Maranatha! Kids)

  • Best Album For Children

    The Little Mermaid. (Various Artists)

  • Best Album For Children

    The Rock-A-Bye Collection, Vol. 1. Tanya Goodman

  • Best Album For Children

    Pecos Bill. Robin Williams, Ry Cooder

  • Best Album For Children

    The Elephant's Child. Bobby McFerrin, Jack Nicholson

  • Best Album For Children

    The Alphabet. (The Sesame Street Muppets)

  • Best Album For Children

    Follow That Bird - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Jim Henson

  • Best Album For Children

    Where The Sidewalk Ends. Shel Silverstein

  • Best Album For Children

    E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Michael Jackson

  • Best Album For Children

    In Harmony 2. (Various Artists)

  • Best Album For Children

    Sesame Country. (The Muppets, Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker)

  • Best Album For Children

    In Harmony/A Sesame Street Record. (Various Artists)

  • Best Album For Children

    The Muppet Movie. (The Muppets)

  • Best Album For Children

    The Muppet Show. (The Muppets)

  • Best Album For Children

    Aren't You Glad You're You. (Various Artists)

  • Best Album For Children

    Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf/Saint-Saens: Carnival Of The Animals. Karl Bohm, Hermione Gingold

  • Best Album For Children

    The Little Prince. Richard Burton

  • Best Album For Children

    Winnie The Pooh And Tigger Too. Sterling Holloway, Sebastian Cabot, Paul Winchell

  • Best Album For Children

    Sesame Street Live. (Sesame Street Cast)

  • Best Album For Children

    The Electric Company. Rita Moreno, Bill Cosby

  • Best Album For Children

    Bill Cosby Talks To Kids About Drugs. Bill Cosby

  • Best Album For Children

    Sesame Street. (The Muppets)

  • Best Album For Children

    Peter, Paul And Mommy. Peter, Paul And Mary

  • Best Album For Children

    Dr. Seuss: How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Boris Karloff

  • Best Album For Children

    Dr. Seuss Presents - "If I Ran The Zoo" And "Sleep Book". Marvin Miller

  • Best Album For Children

    Dr. Seuss Presents "Fox In Sox" And "Green Eggs And Ham". Marvin Miller

  • Best Album For Children

    Mary Poppins. Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke

  • Best Album For Children

    Bernstein Conducts For Young People. Leonard Bernstein

  • Best Album For Children

    Saint-Saens: Carnival Of The Animals/Britten: Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra. Leonard Bernstein

  • Best Album For Children

    Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf. Leonard Bernstein

  • Best Album For Children

    Let's All Sing With The Chipmunks. (David Seville And The Chipmunks) Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.

  • Best Album For Children

    Peter And The Wolf. Peter Ustinov

  • Best Album For Children

    The Chipmunk Song. David Seville And The Chipmunks (Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.)

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