Celebrating 25 years of success in
Children’s Music
“Creative and fun-loving, and an optimist who believes
that people working together can create a better world” San
Jose Mercury News, CA
Charlotte Diamond lives with her family in Richmond,
British Columbia, Canada. Born and
raised in Vancouver, she graduated from the University of B.C. with a Bachelor
of Secondary Education, majoring in Zoology and French. She took further
studies at Laval University, Quebec, in French Language and taught Science,
French and Music at the junior-high school level for 12 years.
Charlotte has had a life-long interest in music. She
sang with local folk groups, including performing intro sets for Pete Seeger
and Tom Paxton. When her own children
came along, she began singing and writing songs for them and also developed a
preschool music program in her community. This led to performances for her
children's parent-participation preschool, which mushroomed into requests for
workshops, school concerts and family shows around Vancouver and throughout
British Columbia.
Charlotte formed her Hug Bug Band and proceeded with
the independent production and release of "10 Carrot Diamond",
which won the Canadian Juno Award (1986). Her
career turned professional and international overnight, and "10 Carrot
Diamond" is a Certified Gold Record in Canada. A frequent
headliner for the Vancouver International Children’s Festival, she is best
known for favourites like, “Four Hugs a
Day”, “I am a Pizza” (Je suis une
pizza), “Octopus” (Slippery Fish), “La Bamba”, “All
the Nations Like Banana” and “Dicky Dinosaur”.
Charlotte presently has thirteen recordings, a
string of awards, including five Parents’ Choice Awards and three
American Library Association Awards, (to mention a few), two nationally
televised videos, and two Music / Resource books. Her latest CD, “24 Carrot
Diamond – The Best of Charlotte Diamond” features 24 of her best-known
songs, recorded over the past 25 years.
Charlotte tours throughout Canada and the U.S.A., and
has had three concert tours to Costa Rica, on the invitation of that country’s
First Lady, UNICEF and the Canadian Embassy.
Charlotte is trilingual and has three recordings in French, and two in
Spanish (“Soy una Pizza” and “Todo el Mundo Come Banana!”). She was awarded the
Queen’s Golden Jubilee Commemorative
Medal “in recognition of her exemplary support of UNICEF”, as well as being
named a
“Paul Harris Fellow” by the Rotary
Foundation of Rotary International, “in appreciation of significant assistance
given to the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among
peoples of the world.”
Her
music, as well as being lively and singable, inspires children to care for each
other and to celebrate the diversity of our cultural mosaic with songs like “Leave
the World a Little Better”. Charlotte’s concerts are fun for kids but parents and grandparents will be
captivated by her music, as well.
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