To kids around the world, Raffi needs no introduction: The singer-songwriter behind "Baby Beluga" is a surviving — and still thriving — veteran of the children’s music industry To kids around the world, Raffi needs no introduction beyond his memorable first name.
A surviving — and still thriving — veteran of the children’s music industry, the singer-songwriter made his first big splash in 1980 with “Baby Beluga,” the sweet tale of a “little white whale on the go” that happened to have the kind of hook his listeners wouldn’t forget four decades later. (He calls his older fans, many now parents themselves, “Beluga Grads.”) Raffi’s repertoire and discography only grew from there: Since Billboard instated a Kid Albums chart in 1995, Raffi has