23 May 2011

I love my hair

The following video was just shared with me:
The story of the song is sweet. I will have to save the video for Sera:

Joey Mazzarino, the head writer of Sesame Street, is also a Muppeteer who wrote the song for his daughter. Mazzarino is Italian. He and his wife adopted their 5-year-old daughter, Segi, from Ethiopia when she was a year old.
Mazzarino says he wrote the song after noticing his daughter playing with dolls.
"She wanted to have long blond hair and straight hair, and she wanted to be able to bounce it around," he tells NPR's Melissa Block.
Mazzarino says he began to get worried, but he thought it was only a problem that white parents of African-American children have. Then he realized the problem was much larger.
What a wonderful song about self-acceptance.

1 comment:

  1. Oh, I love that!!! What a great song. I love how it showed lots of different things she could do with her hair. Awesome!

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