DARIA - World Music

Along with recording a wide variety of world music songs, Daria’s “I Have A Dream” Song is used widely across the USA and around the world to celebrate MLK Day. Her Earth Day anthem is used in over a dozen different countries around the world. Her “Beautiful Rainbow World” song is used in Australia as part of a “Respecting Others” curriculum, in South African schools as part of a “Teach Tolerance” initiative and in a recent book – BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW WORLD - that features dazzling images of multicultural and mixed race children from around the world.

A South-African style arrangement of the beautiful African-American spiritual. Always meant to be an interactive song, the original song uses phrases like “someone’s smiling, and someone’s singing”, in this version which DARIA sings in her live show, she calls out what she sees in the audiences “Someone’s playing on the drums today, someone’s playing a shekere”. World Music children's performer DARIA (Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou) has spent over two decades performing in the USA and around the world, creating music to inspire all the world’s children.  Along with numerous national awards for her culturally diverse music, Daria’s website (www.dariamusic.com) was given a Parent’s Choice Award and offers many great resources for teachers, parents and kids of all abilities.

You Gotta Didg (Play That Didgeridoo) is from DARIA's Parent's Choice Award-Winning cd, Beautiful Rainbow World. The song features the Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo, traditional bilma (clapsticks) and a bullroarer. 
Multicultural children's performer DARIA (Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou) has the coolest job -- she's gotten to travel the world to sing for peace and spend time with kids and communities in 18 different nations! Her music reflects a powerful vision for the dignity and value of all peoples! Check out DARIA's resource-rich website of world music for kids - http://www.dariamusic.com

Artist/Musician DARIA has traveled the world singing for peace. The song, Salaam Shalom, is on her 2008 Award-Winning Beautiful Rainbow World CD first performed live at an amazing peace/language camp held in Nazareth, Israel each year where DARIA was the featured musician in 2006. Peace!

This beautiful new song by DARIA is based on the Muslim Greeting which means "Peace Be Upon You". Written several different ways, the complete greeting and response are: Assalam Aleykum; meaning "Peace Be Upon You" (also written as As-salamu alaykum or As salaamu aleykum) with the response being Wa-Alaikum-as-Salaam, meaning "And Upon You Peace." Multicultural and multilingual artist and songwriter, Daria creates world music that shares a vision of the dignity and value of all peoples of the world. Along with numerous national awards for her culturally diverse music, Daria’s website (www.dariamusic.com) was given a Parent’s Choice Award and offers many great resources for teachers, parents and kids of all abilities.