Lanny Sherwin
Lanny is a singer-songwriter and is President of the children's record label, Sandman Records. He has released 4 award-winning kids' CDs, each of which follow his label's motto: "DON'T DRIVE PARENTS CRAZY!
Having spent 10 years as a songwriter in Nashville, Lanny's son, Alec, was born in 1997. After about 2 months of listening to Barney, Elmo, and other equally brain-frying lullaby CDs on the market, he decided to write his own, "Dream With Me Tonight - Lullabies For All Ages". Former Asylum recording artist, Melodie Crittenden, sang the vocals.
The next year he wrote "Dream With Me Tonight, Vol. 2 - A Father's Lullabies". Gene Miller, a former Mercury Records artist, handled vocals on that CD.
As Alec grew up, so did the themes of Lanny's songs. Released in 2006, "Turn Up the Music!" is geared toward 4 - 9 year olds. Lanny himself sang the vocals. That CD has won 8 children music awards.
In 2007, he wrote & sang on "I Like Being Me!" - also for 4 - 9 year olds.
Lanny started out writing lullabies out of love for his newborn child and out of desperation at having to listen to what was available in the market. Now he just writes because - deep down - he loves being immature.
His CDs have won over 30 music awards from Parent's Choice
Teacher's Choice
Children's Music Web
National Association of Parenting Publications
Dove Foundation
iParenting
Creative Children Magazine
Dr. Toy
International Songwriting Competition
Unisong
Some of his tunes are playing at 30,000 feet -- on Continental Airline's inflight playlist. In fact, his songs recently shared the playlist with Bob Dylan!
He lives in Santa Barbara, CA, with his wife, Holly, and their son (11), Alec.