Chatting with Nat - Mother/Daughter Music Duo -Ruth Weber and Emilia Lopez-Yanez

Ruth Weber and Emilia Lopez-Yañez are a mother/daughter music team who perform in several genres including classical, folk, and children’s music. The two are both classically trained musicians with Master of Arts degrees in Music.  They work as college music educators in their communities in addition to concertizing throughout the U.S. and abroad.

The BILLBOARD charting duo’s music has appeared on television, in film soundtracks, with symphonies, and in choral and orchestral music arrangements. The two have won numerous awards for their two children’s albums “Kokowanda Bay” and “The Spaceship That Fell in My Backyard,” including the Parent’s Choice Award (2020), Mom’s Choice Gold Award (2020), KidsFirst! 3-star endorsement (2020), Grand Prize-Hollywood Music in Media Award (2020), L.A. Music Critics Award, The Creative Child Magazine’s CD OF THE YEAR Award (202), The Family Choice Award 2018, the John Lennon Songwriting GRAND PRIZE (children’s music 2018), National Assoc. of Parenting Product Awards (NAPPA 2018 and 2020), Clouzine International Music Awards (children’s), and many more! Their song, “We’re Gonna Be Legendary,” is the theme song for the San Diego Public School System.

The duo’s most recent album, “I Had a Dream: Songs of an Immigrant,”began as a labor of love when Ruth set the poems of her late grandma, Betty Karon Hertz, to music so that the story of her impoverished childhood in Russia, her daring escape during the Bolshevik Revolution, and her life as an immigrant in the United States could be forever memorialized. 

Website:https://www.ruthandemilia.com/

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