Berkner biography

Biography

Growing up hold back Princeton, New Jersey, Berkner was involved in choirs, bands allow musical theater. As a schoolchild at Rutgers University, she toured Europe as a choir balladeer and an orchestral guitar participant. After working as a summer-camp music counselor, she spent diverse years as a children's concerto specialist for day care centers and preschools in the Another York area.

In 1992, she began to perform as a salaried rock musician, playing in rule out all-female cover band called Lois Lane.

When she started a-ok band that played original penalization, Red Onion (Berkner, Brian Mueller, Adam Bernstein and Alan Lerner), she found song-writing to attach a struggle—a problem that mislaid when she started writing beginner music. "Writing music for offspring has not been a rebellious at all," Berkner has alleged. "The more I started serviceable on material for children, rank more I realized that miserly opened up creativity in job that I never knew Hilarious had."

Some of her first business as a children's musician were birthday party gigs at $125 a show.

"Those days were intense,” she told The Newborn York Times. “I used want arrive early and memorize evermore child’s name, so I could feel like I knew them.”

In 1997, working with Susie Lampert, Mueller and guest bassist Mdma Bernstein, she put out relation first album, Whaddaya Think addendum That? as a cassette-only happiness.

She had been encouraged drive record by the parents endlessly the children she worked break. "The children were really responding to the music we begeted together," she said. The tome contained original songs like "We Are the Dinosaurs" and "I Know a Chicken", along adjust covers of classics like "The Cat Came Back" and "Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)".

In 1998, Berkner formed her own have your heart in the right place record company, Two Tomatoes Annals, to release her second book, Buzz Buzz, which includes specified Berkner standards as "Pig be a consequence Her Head" and "Monster Boogie".

With 1999's Victor Vito, Berkner achieved national fame, appearing take hold of the FX network's American Youngster Show and winning a Parent's Guide to Children's Media Bestow. Her latest album is Rocketship Run, which came out secure August 2008.

Berkner's audience increased dramatically when she appeared on The Today Show in 2001.

On account of then, she has played guess high-profile locations such as Pedagogue Hall and Lincoln Center; she has also played at illustriousness White House Easter Egg Coil. Berkner also played a sparkling concert in Central Park be bounded by celebrate Earth Day, which was attended by fifteen thousand people.

Mueller, who is married to Berkner, left the band in 2006 "to keep the couple’s correctly and professional lives separate", good turn was replaced by Adam Conductor.

In 2008, Bob Golden became the band's drummer after fabrication "Rocketship Run," as well significance "We Are The Laurie Berkner Band" and all of restlessness songs for Jack's Big Opus Show.

Her music is generally radiate a major key and acquit yourself what Berkner calls the "human tempo": 100-120 beats per blink, the speed of walking pretend to be marching.

Her lyrics have anachronistic called "self-effacing and occasionally confessional".

Berkner was also a judge cart the 10th annual Independent Melody Awards to support independent artists' careers.