What's up everybody? This is Paula Phelps and you are listening to on a positive note,

where I sit down with a songwriter, recording artist, or music insider to learn how music can

lift our spirits and heal our hearts. Allegra Levy was a rising star on the music scene when

she took a little detour.

The acclaimed jazz vocalist began noticing that the lyrics of children's classic songs

didn't really fit in today's world of equity and inclusion, and she also didn't want to

raise her child with songs that had been musically dumbed down.

So she began writing her own jazz-tinged children's music

with a positive spin on mental well-being.

And the result is a new album,

Songs for You and Me, that drops April 7th.

And while you have to wait just a couple of weeks to hear that music,

you can hear all about how it came to be

and what she hopes to accomplish with this

fresh take on children's music right now. Let's take a listen. Allegra, thank you for joining me on a

positive note. Thanks so much for having me, Paula. I really am happy to be here. You are doing such

amazing things and we're going to get into what you're working on now and the work

that you're doing with children. But you really have built your career up until this point as a

jazz performer. And I was interested in finding out what is it that drew you to jazz. Oh, gosh,

what is it that drew me to jazz? I grew up in this town called West Hartford, Connecticut, where the public school

program had this amazing jazz program. And I went to see the show when I was like five or six,

and they put on this big show in town. And I think I just saw the singer up there and was

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