Blog: Merry Swankster

Kids—actual kids—are rarely seen or heard in rock and pop. Nevertheless, over the years, songs featuring the voices of kids have left their mark. Now that it’s September and another school year has begun, various members of the Merry Swankster community (all of them former children) weighed in on this narrow but worthy subgenre. The idea of kids singing pop is nothing new. The world has long been impressed by young singers sounding older and wiser than their years. For every Shirley Temple, who sounded like a kid, there are many more precocious phenoms, ranging from [...]

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