Late in life. I began by introducing them to Raffi, Linda Arnold, Peter Alsop, Tom Paxton and all the classic performers of kidmusic. But I also let them hear Mozart and Monk, Beethoven and the Beatles. In case you haven't noticed, music does something incredible to children. It soothes the littlest ones to sleep and can make those of tentative step into wobbly dancers.
Children can sing before they can talk.
They do the baby dance before they can walk. Every day in my house includes an exploration into music. Maybe it is only the radio set down low for chubby fingers to twist a dial through songs and static, playing with sounds. Our culture, she says, has exactly the opposite tradition. So it's babies in the classroom, or in Quezada's case a church rec room in Pasadena, California.