- Raffi( Raffi Cavoukian )【 85 songs in total 】
- Raffi Cavoukian, CM OBC (Armenian: Րաֆֆի, born July 8, 1948), better known by the mononym Raffi, is a Canadian singer-lyricist and author born in Egypt and known best for his children's music. He developed his career as a 'global troubadour' to become a music producer, author, entrepreneur, and founder of the Centre for Child Honouring, a vision for global restoration.
Personal life
Born in Cairo, Egypt, to Armenian parents, he spent his early years in Egypt before immigrating with his family to Canada in 1958, eventually settling in Toronto, Ontario. His mother named him after the Armenian poet Raffi. His father Arto Cavoukian was a well-known portrait photographer with a studio on Bloor Street in Toronto. His older brother Onnig Cavoukian, known as 'Cavouk', is also a famous portrait photographer. His younger sister is Ann Cavoukian, Ontario's former Information and Privacy Commissioner. His parents died within twelve hours of each other, his mother dying first, of abdominal cancer.
In the early 1970s, Raffi frequented a guitar store near Yonge and Wellesley called Millwheel, where he met other developing Canadian musicians such as David Wilcox and John Lacey. Raffi ran a coffee house at the University of Toronto up until 1980. He befriended Lacey, a folk guitarist from Oakville, Ontario, who helped Raffi improve his finger picking (John went on to become a steel guitar player). Raffi continued playing folk guitar in various coffee houses in Toronto and Montreal before hitchhiking to Vancouver in 1972 to find 'fame and fortune.'
He returned to Toronto after a few years and was invited to sing for a Toronto public school. Despite his own hesitations about singing for kids, he was an immediate success, and thus he began his career entertaining children.
He moved to Saltspring Island near Victoria, British Columbia, in 2008.
Raffi started his own fund, and now is an environmentalist as well as a musician.
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Aikendrum
Cavoukian Raffi, Whiteley Kenneth David
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All I Really Need (Live)
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All I Really Need
Raffi Cavoukian, Debi Joan Pike, Bert Donald Simpson, Bonita Louise Simpson
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4
Apples and Bananas (Live)
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5
Apples and Bananas
Raffi, Traditional
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6
Baby Beluga - Live
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7
Baby Beluga
Debi Pike, Raffi
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8
Banana Phone
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9
Bananaphone
Michael Creber, Raffi
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10
Big Beautiful Planet
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11
Biscuits in the Oven
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12
Blessed Be
Raffi Cavoukian
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13
Blue White Planet(Provided)
2014
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14
Brown Girl In the Ring
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15
Brush Your Teeth
Raffi Cavoukian, Louise Cullen
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16
C-A-N-A-D-A
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17
Christmas Time's a Coming
1983
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18
Cool Down Reggae
2014
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19
Day O - Live
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20
Day O
Cavoukian Raffi, Whiteley Kenneth David
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21
De Colores
Raffi Cavoukian, Traditional, Kenneth David Whiteley
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22
Doggone Woods
2014
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23
Down by the Bay
Cavoukian Raffi, Whiteley Kenneth David
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24
Evergreen, Everblue
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25
Every Little Wish
Raffi Cavoukian
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26
Everything Grows (Live)
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27
Everything Grows
Debi Pike, Raffi
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28
Five Little Ducks (Live)
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29
Five Little Frogs
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30
Free To Play
2014
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31
Frosty the Snowman
1983
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32
Frosty The Snowman
Steve Nelson, Jack Rollins
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33
Going to the Zoo
Tom Paxton
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34
Goodnight, Irene
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35
Human Child
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36
If You're Happy and You Know It
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37
In My Garden
Alan Arkin, Jeremy Arkin
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38
In The Real World
2014
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39
Joshua Giraffe
Patrick Godfrey, Dennis Pendrith
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40
Just Like the Sun
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41
Kitchen Sing Sing
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42
Like Me and You (Live)
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43
Like Me and You
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44
Listen to the Horses
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45
Little White Duck
W Barrows, B Zaritzky
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46
Love Bug
2014
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47
Magic Wand
2014
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48
Mama Loves It
2014
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49
Medley: He's Got the Whole World / One Light One Sun / This Little Light (Live)
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50
Mr. Sun
Cavoukian Raffi, Whiteley Kenneth David
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51
Oats and Beans and Barley
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52
Octopus's Garden
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53
Octupus's Garden
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54
On Christmas Morning
Raffi, Chris Whiteley
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55
On Hockey Days
2014
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56
One Light, One Sun
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57
Over in the Meadow
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58
Pete's Banjo(Provided)
2014
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59
Pick a Bale o' Cotton
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60
Rise and Shine (Live)
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61
Rise And Shine
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62
Seeing The Heart
2014
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63
Shake My Sillies Out (Live)
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64
Shake My Sillies Out
Chris (arr.) Harriot, Bert Simpson, Bonnie Simpson
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65
Silent Night / Away in a Manger
1983
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66
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Jack Norworth, Albert Von Tilzer
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67
The First Noel / Deck the Halls
1983
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68
The More We Get Together
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69
This Land Is Your Land
2014
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70
This Little Light of Mine
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71
Time to Sing (Live)
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72
Tingalayo (Live)
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73
To The Park
2014
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74
Turn This World Around(Provided)
2014
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75
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
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76
Up on the House-Top
1983
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77
Water In The Well
2014
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78
Wheels on the Bus
Cavoukian Raffi, Whiteley Kenneth David
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79
Willoughby Wallaby Woo
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80
Wind Chimes(Provided)
2014
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81
Workin' On the Railroad
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82
World We Love
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83
Yellow Submarine
John Lennon, Paul Mccartney
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84
You Gotta Sing
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85
You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song