50% of All Album and Merchandise Proceeds Support the Mission of Changing the Future for Vulnerable Children in Africa via Partnership with OVI Children’s Hospital
The Baby Mine Project: A Lullaby Collection, the first album release from non-profit organization The Baby Mine Project, debuted at #5 on the iTunes Children’s Music Chart and is now available for purchase on CD and digital download at www.BabyMineProject.org. Listen to the full album here.
The Baby Mine Project has also launched a new fundraising collection of apparel and accessories inspired by response to the album. Fifty percent (50%) of album and merchandise proceeds go directly to supporting vulnerable children in Africa through emergency relief funds.
The socially impactful album is the first major fundraising campaign for the recently-established non-profit whose mission is to support the health and wellness of children in underserved areas of Africa while providing them a source of comfort through the development of music and art. The first facility that album and merchandise proceeds will support is The Baby Mine Project’s partnership with OVI Children’s Hospital at their founding site in Kenya. OVI Healthcare is building a movement of global medical facilities that are innovating healthcare for vulnerable populations.
Produced by Grammy® nominee Chris Jay, David Shipman, Aaron Safer and Music Arranger Jamsheed Master, The Baby Mine Project: A Lullaby Collection was a true labor of love collaboration featuring a diverse group of world-renowned artists and African children’s choirs representing three countries (Uganda, Kenya and South Africa) coming together as performers to make a difference in the world. Shipman and Safer are co-founders of The Baby Mine Project.
An accomplished performer, Shipman lends his voice to four songs on the album, including one that features the last three Ringmasters for the now-closed Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Circus: Shipman, Johnathan Lee Iverson and Kristen Michelle Wilson. Music artists Robyn Adele Anderson and Von Smith, also producers on the album, contributed arrangements for the songs on which they are featured. Multiple tracks showcase touring sensations The African Children’s Choir and the Kenyan Boys Choir.
The album was produced with one feeling in mind: comfort. By leveraging the universal language of lullabies, the track cadence soothes children to sleep as the music continually becomes softer, providing a sense of comfort and mimicking the feeling of drifting off to sleep. Music has the ability to connect cultures through a simple melody, and the lullabies on this album are arranged to help calm no matter where around the globe they are heard or what language the listener speaks.
Song List for The Baby Mine Project: A Lullaby Collection
1. “Someone’s Waiting” - Kellie Rhianne and The African Children’s Choir
2. “Stay Awake” - David Shipman and the Kenyan Boys Choir
3. “Not While I’m Around” - Dante J. Payne
4. “You’ll Be In My Heart” - Kristen Michelle Wilson
5. “Distant Melody” - Johnathan Lee Iverson and The African Children’s Choir
6. “Hushabye Mountain” - Robyn Adele Anderson
7. “A Million Dreams” - David Shipman, Kristen Michelle Wilson, Johnathan Lee Iverson
8. “La vie en rose” - Diya Jawali
9. “You Are My Sunshine” - Julia Ceslee Marie
10. “La La Lu” - Karen Yvette Reid
11. “When You Wish Upon A Star” - Von Smith
12. “There’s Always Tomorrow” - Julia Ceslee Marie and David Shipman
13. “Baby Mine” - David Shipman
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About The Baby Mine Project
The Baby Mine Project supports orphanages and children’s medical facilities in underserved communities in Africa through the development of music and art. Their vision is to be a resource by purposing funds raised to assist in immediate medical relief for the children who need it most, while providing comfort in uncertain times through connective and loving music-filled environments.
