CHARLOTTE
DIAMOND
Celebrating over 20 years of success in Children's Music
Charlotte Diamond lives with
her family in Richmond, British Columbia. Born
and raised in Vancouver, she graduated from the University of B.C., 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.
Taking her teachers' pension
fund, Charlotte proceeded with the independent production and release of "10
Carrot Diamond", which won the Juno Award (the Canadian
equivalent of the Grammy) in 1986. Her
career turned professional overnight, and "10 Carrot Diamond" is
a Certified Gold Record in Canada.
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. She now 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 eleventh recording, “Charlotte
Diamond’s World”, has become a favorite of children, families and
teachers and received a nomination for the Juno Award for Best Canadian Children’s
Recording. This CD also received a Parents’ Choice Honors Award and
Our Choice Award 2001 from the Canadian Children’s Book Centre.
Her music, as well as being fun 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 twelfth
recording, “Nous sommes tous comme les fleurs” (Each of Us is a
Flower) features her writings in French and was a Juno Award Nominee for
2003. Her latest CD in Spanish, “Todo
el Mundo Come Banana!” (All the Nations Like Banana) won the Parents’
Choice Approved Award and National Parenting Publications Award for 2007.
For
more information, please visit
Charlotte’s
Web site: www.charlottediamond
Email: hugbug@intergate.ca