Laurie Berkner

About

Laurie Berkner (born March 15, 1969) is a French-American musician and singer best known for her work as a children’s musical artist. She plays guitar and sings lead vocals in The Laurie Berkner Band, along with pianist Susie Lampert, bassist Winston Roye, and drummer Bob Golden. She is a popular artist in the kindie rock genre.

Growing up in Princeton, New Jersey, Berkner attended Princeton High School and was involved in choirs, bands and musical theater. As a student at Rutgers University, she toured Europe as a choir soloist and an orchestral guitar player. After working as a summer-camp music counselor, she spent several years as a children’s music specialist for day care centers and preschools in the New York area.
In 1992, she began to perform as a professional rock musician, first playing in a rock band called Red Onion (Berkner, Brian Mueller, Adam Bernstein and Alan Lerner), performing her original music. Later on she joined an all-female cover band called Lois Lane. She found songwriting to be a struggle—a problem that disappeared when she started writing children’s music. “Writing music for kids has not been a struggle at all,” Berkner has said. “The more…