Kids' Juke Box: Personalised Music for Children

It was a relaxing Sunday morning. The weather in Sydney was excellent - blue skies, cool breeze - and my wife and I was taking our baby son out for a stroll - in a shopping mall, of course (so typical ya). We came across this booth which we thought wasn't really remarkable looking, just another booth selling music CDs and DVDs and probably pirated as well, we thought. You see this in nearly every mall and street market all over the world actually.

But the guy called us over and asked us, friendly like, our baby boy's name. Upon providing his name (Sean), he promptly bashed away on his keyboard and a kid's song came over the speakers. To our amazement and delight, Sean's name was being sung in the song!! The name was IN THE LYRICS!! That was our 1st encounter with Kids' Juke Box.

A programme would insert Sean's (or any child's name) into the lyrics of the songs, such that when you play the music, it sings the name too. And not just once but numerous times throughout the song. And depending on the album you pick, the 8 - 12 songs in the album would each of them have Sean's name in it.

The music CD is then burned on the spot (takes less than 2 minutes) and voila, you take home the completed music cd where you can play in your car or any cd player. No software or any programming involved. You can even personalise it further by printing a message onto the CD label.

You should see Sean when we play his cd. He absolutely loves it. He was amazed that his name was being sung and just thrilled him to bits. He'll dance around - if you can call his jigging around 'dancing' but then , he's two.

FYI, Kids Juke Box is now available in Singapore and Malaysia - one of the 1st few Asian countries to have it. Check it out at www.babygorillaz.com