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Global Wonders: Around the World Music brings children and families an authentic cultural musical experience from around the globe. The album features an Emmy Award winning composer, and culturally authentic musical performances creating a uniquely fun and educational experience. Featuring authentic cultural styles, original compositions, and fun sing-a-long songs, this album is a fun way for families to explore new cultures and musical genres from around the world.Global Wonders: Around the World Music is produced and composed by Emmy Award winner Jim Latham, whose work includes original songs, themes and scores for a variety of children's programming (JoJo's Circus, Dragon Tales, and Disney Princess: A Christmas of Enchantment). For Global Wonders, Latham leveraged his broad musical experiences to meet the challenge of creating an album that is both kid friendly, and culturally authentic/educational. The first album in the series includes the Global Wonders Theme Song (A Great Big World) featuring a catchy sing-long chorus with layers of instruments from 8 different countries, including an Indian Sitar, Australian Didgeridoo, Japanese Koto, Ghana log drum, and Scottish Bagpipe. On Global Wonders Hello children are introduced to words and phrases to say Hello in 10 different languages.The album includes 19 songs covering cultures and musical styles from around the world including India, Italy, Greece, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, Ireland, Cuba, and US (New Orleans Jazz, and Hawaiian Tiki). Highlights include a unique version of Vande Mataram, (India's national song and the second most popular song in the world per the BBC) which incorporates a children's choir into the chorus, Go Go Greece, a get-up-and-dance traditional Greek song, Banda Dance from Mexico, the Bollywood style India Celebrations, and America The Beautiful in a gospel vibe.This is an album sure to be enjoyed by parents and kids alike.