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Daria: Music to inspire all the world's children.

World Music Children's Performer, Daria (Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou) has spent over two decades performing around the globe, creating music to inspire all the world's children. Her music mixes authentic traditions and instruments with a spirit of joy and hopefulness that has won her fans from Siberia to South America. In a recent article, the Christian Science Monitor declared: "When Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou makes music, the world listens -- literally!"

With 7 CD's and mini-cd releases that have won educational and entertainment awards (NAPPA, Parent's Choice, Best of Children's Music Web, etc.) Daria's music spans a range of folk traditions from Early American to Andean music, Hispanic Heritage Music to Native American and almost everything in between! Among the languages heard in her music are English, Spanish, Quechua, Ladino, Yiddish, Zulu, German and Haudenasaunee (Iroquis).

Daria's songs have been used widely in the USA as well as around the world. Her "Beautiful Rainbow World" song (from the CD of the same name) was chosen as the text for a photography book of global children as well as in an anti-apartheid program in South Africa. It was also featured in "Teaching Tolerance" programs in the USA and in a curriculum called "Respecting Others" in Australia. Daria's "I Have A Dream" Song is used across the USA to celebrate Martin Luther King Day. Her Earth Day anthem "We've Got The Whole World In Our Hands" has been used in the USA as well as in Singapore, Scotland, Malaysia, Japan and China. Her bilingual songs in Spanish and English such as La Cucaracha (with over a million hits on Youtube) are part of ESL and ELL programs for English learners.

Additionally, Daria was chosen as the first artist to contribute to the audio version of the popular Highlights/Hi Five magazines. Twenty of her songs were chosen as part of a English language music service in Korea and songs from her Cancioncitas De Los Andes release are being used as the music bed for online webisodes of a popular teen graphic novel series called "Five Nations" from Tumble Creek Entertainment.

You can find out more about Daria on her website.

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[Grandchildren's Delight by Daria]

Grandchildren's Delight
Daria lives in Pennsylvania, USA.

Tagged as: World, Children, Folk.

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