Raffi

"In this day and age, with all you hear about negative influences on kids, it's a good feeling to know you're creating life-affirming material for them to be inspired by."--Raffi

"I have found through experience that if you choose the right song, or if you write a song in a particular way, that you can give young children levels of access to meaning and to images that the can individually find--depending on their individual place in time--that the songs can also work to stimulate older people and possibly adults."--Raffi, Billboard September 19, 1987

Raffi sold over six million children's records for A&M.  In 1987 he was the only children's musicians signed to a major record label--A&M Records. He was also the first childrens artist to have an album issued on compact disc. That album was "One Light, One Sun" released in the spring of 1987. The initial pressing sold out. It was followed by the Christmas Record and "Everything Grows."

In 1979, in Canada one Raffi LP was bought every five minutes.

In 1986 Raffi's debut album from 1976, Singable Songs For the Very Young, was certified triple platinum (300,000 copies sold) in Canada. His next five albums were certified platinum in Canada. At the time he had sold over one million albums in Canada. In the U.S. he sold 500,000 albums. 

A&M Records President Gil Friesen, Raffi and Shoreline Records President in 1986.