Susan’s Bio

Susan Salidor is an award-winning children’s music composer and performer with the heart of a teacher. Raised in New York but based in Chicago for the last 25 years, she has performed for children and the people who love them throughout the country in schools, libraries, colleges, theatres, children’s museums, music festivals and bookstores. Susan’s music workshops have received rave reviews at professional teaching conferences nationwide.

Susan also served as an Artist in Residence for the Rockford Public Schools’ Early Childhood Program from 2000-2002, teaching master classes and creating music workshops. Susan and husband Jay Rehak collaborated on a kids’ show, Noah’s Ark: The Musical, which has been produced at theatres in Chicago and Michigan.

Discography

Songs in the Key of Chai (2008)

 

Come and Make a Circle 2: More Terrific Tunes for Kids, Teachers and Families (2006)

  • 2006 Parents’ Choice Silver Award for Best Audio
  • 2006 NAPPA Award.

Come and Make a Circle: 20 Terrific Tunes for Kids and Teachers (2004)

  • Parents’ Choice Award
  • Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award
  • NAPPA Award
  • iParenting Media Award.

Shiny New Shoes (2001)

 

  • Parents’ Choice Silver Award
  • “brims with delightful songs and is filled with expert musicianship.” –Fred Koch, Chicago Parent

Color Me Singing (1998)

  • Book-of-the-Month Club’s Sound Review Catalog
  • Parents’ Choice Gold Award
  • Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Audio Award 2000
  • “Listen Up!” award from Publishers Weekly.

Susan Salidor: By Heart (1996)

 

  • Parents’ Choice Gold Award
  • Recommended by Chicago Tribune, Nashville Parent, Parents’ Magazine, ALA Booklist
  • “an album to savor.”  –Family Fun Magazine

Little Voices In My Head (1995)

  • Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Award
  • “One of the year’s five best children’s recordings” –Sesame Street Parent Magazine.

Other Awards and Accomplishments

  • ASCAP Popular Awards for songwriting
  • “Color Me Singing” is featured in a primary school textbook, Making Music (Scott Foresman/Silver Burdett).
  • Susan’s recordings are recommended in The Best of Everything for Your Baby (Krantz/Exley, Prentice Hall)
  • “Ruby B.” appears in the first edition of Ruby Bridges’ autobiography Through My Eyes (Scholastic Press).
  • She recently published The Susan Salidor Songbook, a songbook and CD set of original music from her first four recordings.
  • Susan co-hosted “Kids Play Radio,” a weekly broadcast on Chicago’s WLUW 88.7 FM.

Contact

Susan Salidor, 2225 W. Berwyn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625
Phone: (773) 271-5568 Email: ssalidor@aol.com