Bob Schneider (children's music)
{{short description|Canadian singer-lyricist (born 1955)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
|name = Bob Schneider
|honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|OBC| size=100%}}
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|birth_name = Robert Schneider
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1946|4|12}}
|birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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|occupation = Musician, author, essayist, lecturer
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|genre = {{ubl|Children's music|Children's literature}}
|label = {{hlist|A&M|Rounder}}
|website = {{URL|boballyrecords.com}}
|years_active= 1983–present
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Bob Schneider is a Canadian singer-lyricist, best known for his children's music. He is best known as the lead singer of Bob Schneider and the Rainbow Kids' band which also included back up vocalist Katherine Flynn.{{Cite web|url=https://www.boballyrecords.com/about.html|title=Bobally Records – Specializing in all aspects of audio production for the children's educational and commercial marketplace|website=Boballyrecords.com|accessdate=8 January 2020}} Schenider was a nominee for the Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year in 1982 for Listen to the Children. The following year, he won the Juno Award for When You Dream a Dream.{{cite web |title=Bob Schneider |url=https://junoawards.ca/artist-profile/bob-schneider/ |website=The Juno Awards |access-date=6 November 2021}}
Discography
- Listen to the Children (1980)
- When You Dream a Dream (1982)
- Playing Baseball
- Just Friends
- In a Child's Heart
- Country Kiddie Boogie{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-schneider-and-the-rainbow-kids-mn0002760154/discography|title=Bob Schneider and the Rainbow Kids: Discography|publisher=AllMusic}}
- Hulk (2003)
- Spider-Man and Friends (2003–2004)
References
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External links
{{Portal|Children's literature}}
- {{Cite web|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0208/lbob.html|title=A Pied Piper Who 'Makes Something Happen'. Bob Schneider's message of tolerance and self-confidence leaps all kinds of barriers|last=Bunce|first=Alan|website=The Christian Science Monitor|date=8 February 1989|access-date=18 February 2019}}
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Category:Canadian children's musicians
Category:Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year winners
Category:20th-century Canadian male singers
Category:Canadian folk guitarists
Category:Canadian male guitarists
Category:Fingerstyle guitarists
Category:20th-century Canadian guitarists
Category:21st-century Canadian guitarists
Category:Shoreline Records artists
Category:Rounder Records artists
Category:Children's rights activists
Category:Canadian male singer-songwriters
Category:21st-century Canadian male singers