Building Character - Universal Childrens Audio - Award-Winning Children's Music

Radha Sahar is a director of Universal Children's Audio Ltd, founding the company with David Antony Clark in 1987. Her outstanding talent in composing and producing music for children has established her as a well-respected leader in her field. Her productions through UCA won the World Peace Music Award, Practical Preschool Silver Award (England), New Zealand Children's Album of the Year and the Rainbow Ribbon Award (NZ). Her background includes work as a Kindergarten teacher, performer, music tutor, and music therapist.

Radha has been musical director for Learning Media's Kiwi Kidsongs series and composer for other projects funded by the Ministry of Education. She has also composed and directed music for Wendy Pye's company, Sunshine Books.

She has also produced adult contemporary albums including Touch, Dreams of Flying (by Astral Jazz), and Joan of Arc, available internationally on the White Cloud label. Currently she is writing and recording humorous pop/rock songs as Baby Boomer Girl. Visit her Baby Boomer Girl Blog.

Radha is also a visual artist - Radha Sahar Interactive Art. Radha Sahar Interactive Art. Her solo, interactive exhibition Spirituality in the Pulic Domain toured several NZ museums and she has two paintings in the NZ parliamentary collection. Her voluntary work includes the The NZ Virtues Trust and coordination of The Sacred Site.

David's background in Radio New Zealand led to his current position as sound engineer, studio manager, and co-director of UCAmusic.com. His work on the album Sacred Tibetan Ceremonies won NZ its first Grammy Award through the Naxos/White Cloud label.

David composes and engineers for many Learning Media recordings funded by the NZ Ministry of Education. One of his children's songs, Never Hitch a Ride with a Martian, is also a successful children's book, published by Learning Media.

David is known in Europe for his adult contemporary music: a genre he calls 'neo-tribal'. Having traveled extensively, he weaves a wealth of overseas experience into a style of world music available internationally on the White Cloud and Tasmantis labels. Visit his website for further information, David Antony Clark.

Kai-arahi, Tamariki Aorangi

"Ko Tawai Hauraki-Te Rangi toku ingoa I whanau ahau ki Ruatoria. Ko Ue-pohatu, whanau-a-Umu ariki, oku hapu o Ngati-Porou. Kei Porirua toku kainga noho. He Kai-awhina ahau o te Reo Maori mo Tamariki Aorangi.

Ko taku noa; kia tika te whakatakoto, kia tika te whakahua o te taonga nei o te Reo Maori. Kia pümau te Wairua I roto I ngä mahi katoa."

Tawai Te Rangi is head of our Maori language productions. Respecting her status as an elder, we call her 'Aunty'.

Aunty Tawai is a native speaker of her beloved Maori language. It's her dream to see Maori culture, spirituality and language spread and blossom, nurturing the country's children in the ways of the ancestors. She chose UCAmusic as her vehicle for this vision.

Tawai is also kai-awhina, helping guide, for the Maori component of The Virtues Project resources for New Zealand. Through UCA, Tawai also does detailed translation work in the cause of children's welfare - for example, the International Charter of Children's Rights.

Feel free to contact her at UCA about any of our current Maori or bilingual resources or with your ideas for new resources in te reo Maori.

Sara McClean processes your orders here at Universal Children's Audio. She is an avid music lover, has worked in the advertising industry for over ten years and has a background in Account Service and Office Management. Sara lives and works in Pukerua Bay, has traveled widely and is a practising Shiatsu therapist and mother of two boys.