The man who founded the music program I teach with, Ken, and wrote most of the music for it still composes new music for the program. When he's releasing a new piece, he brings in singers and instrumentalists to record the song. The director of the Princeton center, where I work, knows Lewis and saw him perform with the American Boy Choir last year when he sang with them. So, she recommended him to be one of the child voices on the recording.
To say he was excited about doing this would be a gross understatement. He came out of school that day jumping up and down, absolutely thrilled!
It was SUCH a fun experience to watch him work with Ken. He was so happy and confident and just had a blast. The man who runs the recording studio was so nice to Lewis as well and let him see how all the equipment works and showed him some funny effects he could do with Lewis' voice once recorded.
The child part on this song was really simple. Just three harmonies for a background line.
Oh, and for all this fun, he got paid $50!
I put it in context for him and figured out that if he did 12 chores in an hour, he could earn $6 from us. Not bad for a 9 year old!!!
Here's Lewis recording each one of the tracks, and then a super quick video of him right afterwards.
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Afterwards
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!!!
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