![]() And now that I’m a mom, I’m a certain level of tired, and I get it. All my guest stars are also parents, which felt so important to me.īefore I had a kid, my agent would send me in for “young mom” all the time. But I’ve worked with all of them, as a teacher, and with Christina Jones, as a friend. I met them the first day in the studio, and I’ve since fallen in love. I needed more voices, so I asked one singer, Marleena Barber, who used to run the Braille Institute Choir, so she sent me Coco and Evelyn, two incredible kids. Yes, I know and have worked with all of them except for two. Now, are the kids singing on the album your actual students? Everything is so perfect that the listener is going to feel insecure, not even knowingly, thinking that they will never be able to reach that note. You can’t sing along to Wicked you can’t sing along to Frozen. I want kids to sing along and feel that they don’t have to be perfect. I didn’t want it shiny I didn’t want it to sound polished. And I love that, because it makes it human. You listen to Broadway soundtracks from the 70s and 80s, and you hear mess ups all over the place. I wanted it to feel like we were on set, and people were going to mess up. I kept telling my sound guys, the ones who mixed it and mastered it, that Sesame Street isn’t perfect. ![]() My big thing with the entire album is that I kept using the word imperfect. ![]() I feel like that’s a song you have to earn. ![]() There were some songs that I didn’t want to put on the album because of that, like “Being Green.” My producer said, “You have to!” and I said, “I can’t touch that!” It took me a long time to figure out to make it mine, how to respect it and elevate it. I can’t even imagine how you could take something as beloved as Sesame Street and make it your own. We exclusively spoke with Rena about music that matters, and how she’s leaving a musical legacy to her daughter, Isadora. Her music is at once beautiful and inclusive, as she features the voice talents of The Blind Children’s Choir and other noted blind singers to convey a message of love and hope. With her new album, Imagine That!, Rena Strober is taking on the classic songs of Sesame Street and recreating them for today’s audience. ![]()
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