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Hi I'm Laurie Berkner from the Laurie Berkner Band and I\'92m here at
Princeton's McCarter. I really have always loved music as far back as I can remember.
I had a Fisher Price player that I would play Doe a Deer from the Sound of Music on and
just like, we were on opposite ends of the apartment so I could play it loud and march
around on my bed and sing and that was just my favorite thing to do it just always felt
really good when I was singing. I sort of went through a lot of phases with music learning
instruments, imagining I would be on Broadway doing the musicals in high school and stuff
and then I realized if I wanted to play music that came from me I would have to write it.
When it came together that I also got a job being the music specialist in a preschool
and I was writing the songs for the kids um then I was writing my own music suddenly and
people were liking its they were just much younger than I had expected so I kind of followed
that and I realized I had so much fun playing to these kids and their parents that I just kept doing it. I did play for Madonna's
daughter Lourdes when she was three and Sting's son after that because he was at that party.
I started to get some feedback that like people were saying oh you're just trying to make
it on the fact that you did birthday parties for famous people and I realized I think I
actually do pretty good music so lets not talk about that and see what happens and I
still did okay. What's next is that I've made an animated series with Sprout. I wrote
all the songs and there's a little girl named Laurie who is six years old and plays
the guitar and she has her dad and friends and those will be airing starting March 25th.
Short form episodes will be aired on Sprout and I'm excited to see
what people think.