Little kids songs en español- who is the Spanish Raffi?

October 10, 2018 6:04 PM

I'm in search of some great kids songs/albums for my kid's car ride to preschool (bilingual, English/Spanish). Raffi has been a big hit and has a couple songs in other languages, but I'm looking for someone singing fully in Spanish. Who's the Spanish-world Raffi? Searching found me this great thread but that's for French. Any suggestions for kids songs/albums en español?
posted by mnop to Media & Arts (9 answers total)

Smithsonian Folkways did a folklife collection of Puerto Rican & Mexican children’s game songs in I wanna say the 70s based on the tone of the car horns in the background. It’s a great collection and the songs are enduring favorites. I think some of them are for like handclap games or jumping rope. My in-laws all recognized them from when they were little girls in PR.

https://folkways.si.edu/latin-american-children-game-songs/music/album/smithsonian
posted by toodleydoodley at 8:44 PM on October 10, 2018

123 Andrés seems like he would be a great candidate for the Spanish language Raffi.
posted by meadowlands at 9:03 PM on October 10, 2018

José-Luis Orozco

Los Lobos with Lalo Guerrero
‘Papa’s dream’
posted by calgirl at 9:08 PM on October 10, 2018

Maria Elena Walsh was like an Argentinean mashup of Raffi and Pete Seeger. We like Canciones Para Chicos.
posted by The Elusive Architeuthis at 10:17 PM on October 10, 2018

When my kids were little, we really liked Tish Hinojosa. On the CD we had, she sang the entire lyrics of each song in both Spanish and English, in a very natural way.
posted by Orlop at 12:31 AM on October 11, 2018

The CD we had from Hinojosa was Cada Nina, and I recommend it.
posted by Orlop at 12:33 AM on October 11, 2018

In Ladino, derived from Old Spanish, is the Chanukah song Ocho Candelikas. Very singable, maybe a real ear worm.
posted by Botanizer at 7:21 AM on October 11, 2018

Thank you all for the recommendations! You've made our next couple weeks of car rides much more enjoyable.

I've been introduced to some great new artists. Here's a playlist in case anyone's interested in hearing the mefi suggestions: Kids songs en español
posted by mnop at 4:21 PM on October 11, 2018

You can try rockalingua.com they have a lot of songs for toddlers as well as games, activities etc. They have resources for free and others that you have to pay, worth checking!
posted by spanishinhk at 10:01 AM on January 12, 2019