Alina Celeste
Love is Te Quiero
( sampling of her wonderful talent but the song is not from this album)
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ALINE CELESTE
PRESENTS
LOVE IS TE QUIERO
A CELEBRATION OF A CHILDHOOD LIVED IN TWO LANGUAGES
* Label: Lion Mice Productions, LLC
* Release Date: May 24, 2019
* Ages: 0-9 and their families
* Bilingual or only Spanish or English
Love is Te Quiero will be available at CDBaby, iTunes, and Amazon
"Skilled musician, experienced early childhood music educator, and master of facial expressions, Celeste is quirky, offbeat and totally in tune ... Laugh, sing, clap; repeat."
-- Parents' Choice® Gold Award review of Alina Celeste Music on YouTube
"The popular teaching musician and performer emphasizes traditional songs with a modern twist and original songs aimed at providing joy and self-expression to kids everywhere." -- Red Tricycle
What's it all about?
Parents' Choice® Gold Award winner Alina Celeste presents her third album for kids and families as a joyful, melodious expression of her Cuban-American heritage. Love is Te Quiero, a celebration of a childhood lived in two languages, will be released on May 24, 2019.
Alina Celeste's music is creative, joyous, and eclectic, much like her hometown, Miami, Florida. As a child, she thrived in a multi-cultural, multi-generational environment that held no reservations about the phrase "I love you ... Te quiero."
As Alina explains, "After living in Los Angeles and touring America for the better part of a decade, when I moved back to Miami, I realized how much my childhood was blessed by this uncommon metropolis. It became my mission to share my hometown's culture with the world at large and to celebrate the many loving relationships that have been a part of my life. The album title, Love is Te Quiero, makes me smile because it is reflective of how people often speak in Miami -- saying something in one language and then immediately in the other!"
The songs on Love is Te Quiero carry messages of love, acceptance, and friendship in a fusion of bluegrass, Caribbean, Latin American, and contemporary styles that, like Alina herself, speaks to the unity of America: one loving, respecting, accepting hemisphere where North, South, and Central define location rather than division.
Meet Alina Celeste
Born in Miami to a Cuban father and American mother, Alina Celeste's upbringing exposed her to a wide array of popular music, from Celia Cruz to the Beatles. Her dad, a self-taught musician who played trumpet, piano, guitar, and harmonica all through the house, likes to say that Alina "came out hootin' and hollerin'" and just never stopped. For Alina, it seemed that singing was the only way to make as much noise as possible and not get in trouble! Alina's mom loved the Beach Boys, while her dad was a fan of the Allman Brothers, Credence Clearwater, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Lou Rawls, and Albita. Add to this mix a Cuban grandmother who loved show tunes, and it becomes clear that Alina Celeste was destined for a life in music.
After college, Alina got a job teaching music in the Miami-Dade County public school system. About a year later, she decided to leave the security of a full-time teaching job to be an artist.
Alina Celeste has taught, performed, and presented workshops and master classes throughout the United States and internationally in cities as far-flung as Santiago de Atitlán in Guatemala and Kempsey and Melbourne in Australia. Her YouTube channel won a 2018 Parents' Choice® Gold Award, she was the first kindie artist to play at the San Francisco Free Folk Festival, and she was nominated for Teacher of the Year by her fellow teachers at Tropical Elementary School during her first year of teaching. Alina is on the board of The Children's Music Network and wholeheartedly believes in that organization's mission to bring music education to every child and honor every child's experience through music. With Hamlet Meneses, she co-founded the Being Bilingual Rocks Foundation. Through the Foundation, she hopes to celebrate bilingual life by working to make it the norm rather than the exception, to encourage children to not only learn multiple languages but also engage with other cultures, and to provide children in communities that are not typically represented in the media with mirrors of their own experiences and languages.
Want more?
Visit Alina Celeste's website "alinaceleste.com"
Alina Celeste on Instagram.
Alina Celeste on YouTube.
The Album Track List
Run Time: 35 minutes
💘 Love Is
💘 Vaca Lechera
💘 Clap Hands
💘 Baila Conmigo
💘 Debajo de un Botón
💘 Coquinas
💘 Kitty Catchie
💘 Te Quiero
💘 Stardust
💘 Los Pollitos
💘 Vaca Lechera
💘 Clap Hands
💘 Baila Conmigo
💘 Debajo de un Botón
💘 Coquinas
💘 Kitty Catchie
💘 Te Quiero
💘 Stardust
💘 Los Pollitos
May 19 - Album Release Show! Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL
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Chicago Area Library Tour
June 5 - Park Ridge Public Library, Park Ridge, IL
June 5 - Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, IL
June 6 - Fountaindale Public Library, Bolingbrook, IL
June 7 - Glencoe Public Library, Glencoe, IL
June 8 - New Lenox Public Library, New Lenox, IL
June 8 - Northlake Public Library, Northlake, IL
June 10 - Des Plaines Public Library, Des Plaines, IL
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