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In 1994 Grammy® Award-winning songwriter Bunny Hull was asked to organize a youth group. It was called the “Apple Corps”. It’s purpose was to inspire the lives of children 4-8 with ideas like connection, friendship, kindness and creativity - to facilitate an elementary understanding of the universal principles which we all hold in common. She didn’t know it at the time, but exploring how to do this would change her life forever. It began with writing a few children’s songs and over time it evolved into creating activity books with stories. By 2002 she was dubbed “Musical Ambassador to children” by L.A. Parent Magazine for the way she enlightened and connected with children. Today she is an award-winning children’s author and composer, but prior to this she received over 20 Gold and platinum awards and a Grammy® Award for performances and compositions in mainstream music.

    Hull’s beginnings as a top vocalist include work on more than 200 albums with greats including Michael Jackson (Thriller), Quincy Jones, David Foster, Baby Face, Ricky Martin, Celine Dion, Bette Midler and Jimmy Buffet, to name a few. As a songwriter she’s perhaps best known for hit songs like 2008 Dove Award Winning song Ready For A Miracle by LeAnn Rimes or New Attitude, which catapulted Patti LaBelle to the top of the charts in 1986 and won a Grammy Award as part of the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack. Hull has earned more than 20 gold and platinum albums with songs and/or as a vocalist appearing on soundtracks and in films such as Evan Almighty, Bruce Almighty, The Prince of Egypt, Losing Isaiah, A River Runs Through It, Leap of Faith and Miss Congeniality. Her work for television includes NBC's The Today Show, Oprah, the Super Bowl, Sesame Street, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Everybody Hates Chris, Any Day Now, Kings Of The Hill, Charmed and The Simpsons and national ad campaigns include Harley Davidson, Jenny Craig and Verizon. Among the many artists who have recorded her songs are Patti LaBelle, James Ingram, Thelma Houston, Angela Bofill, Wynonna, Vanessa Williams, Brenda Russell, Diana Ross, Nick Cannon, NAS and The Judds.

    Hull’s passion for working with children took her in a new direction and those first few songs she wrote for the “Apple Corps”, blossomed into a publishing catalog filled with over 150 original children’s songs and a wall lined with awards for books and music.   Hull’s titles have been embraced both in secular and non-secular worlds for their simplicity, charm and educational value. In a few years the “Apple Corps” grew up and moved on, but she found herself repeatedly called to elementary schools, asked to conduct workshops and residency programs. First there was the HEROES project, then DREAMS, both projects with former Martha Graham soloist and founder of Los Angeles Dance Theatre, Bonnie Homsey, and both inspiration for the journey that would lie ahead. In 2008 Hull graduated from an Artist program sponsored by the Actors Fund and Sony where she learned to create standards based curriculum with Leonardo Bravo, head of the educational programming at the prestigious Los Angeles Music Center.

   In 2009, though still in the midst of writing the second three books in the Young Masters series, Hull called a team of friends and fellow professional artists together and founded Dream A World Education, Inc, a non-profit based in California, which uses the arts as a platform to empower children from the inside out. It all stemmed from the purpose that was originally defined in 1994. The books, the music, the curriculum, the residency programs and workshops – all now came together as a way to get children to understand that they are born with natural gifts – powerful gifts. Gifts the children have learned through Butaan, Phylos and EEtha, in the Young Masters Little Wisdom series, to call - the secrets of the heart. Secrets of the Heart, is now a six-week standards based residency program currently conducted in low income L.A. schools where a whole lot of children by means of Hull and her team have learned how to use those gifts.

Hull’s love for and belief in the value that comes from the arts has lead her to perform on the national mall in Washington D.C. for thousands from over sixty countries for the Child Art Festival and walk the Halls of Congress with representatives of NARAS (The Grammy Foundation) for Arts Advocacy Day to raise awareness and increase funding for the National Endowment of the Arts.

   Hull is a people lover, an animal lover, a hiker, grill master, world traveler and a collector of the arts of Africa, Native and Latin America. She currently resides in Los Angeles where she continues to be a student of life and a lover of learning.

Hull’s work in schools can be viewed on her non-profit site www.dreamaworldedu.org. To learn more about Hulls books and music visit www.dreamaworld.com   To learn more about Hull’s music publishing company BrassHeart Music visit www.brassheartmusic.com.

Personal Background

Bunny Hull was born in New Orleans and raised in Las Vegas, began playing piano at age 7 on the old spinet piano her grandmother bought for her. Encouraged by her mother Jeri Keever Hull, a professional singer, and her father Pinky Hull, a gaming industry worker, she studied with many gifted private music teachers and began writing music and lyrics at 15. In the mid 1970s, Hull moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams as a writer and background vocalist.

She has one brother, Jeff Hull, who is a Grammy nominated composer for the song "Piano In The Dark" written with Brenda Russell and who owns an operates a recording facility in Valley Village, California called Dwarf Village Studios, where he continues to compose and produce as well as making it available for mixing, overdubs and post production work.

Supported by the love of friends and family, Hull resides in Los Angeles, where she feels blessed to have access to her hikes in the Santa Monica Mountains and two yoga classes per week where she nourishes her physical, mental and spiritual needs and finds all the inspiration she can handle.

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