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Building on the momentum of their 2012 Parents' Choice® winning album, Dance Party, Preschool of Rock charts new kids' music territory - defining life as rhythm - with the December 4 of their third studio CD, Everything Makes a Sound (Preschool of Rock Records, for ages birth - 8, run time 33 minutes). Everything Makes a Sound, features singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Napolitano who, as a second-generation drummer, lives and breathes rhythm. Michael, founder of the popular New Jersey-based Preschool of Rock music classes, is well aware that rhythm, an intrinsic aspect of childhood from patty cake to jumping rope, provides the motor for individual development and a framework for social connections with other kids. With songs like the album's title track (in which no traditional instruments were used), InchShake It,Inch InchAnd We Dance,Inch and InchJump When I Get Up,Inch Everything Makes a Sound focuses on bringing rhythm into family activity at a time in history when too many kids are being introduced to the sedentary operation of electronic devices at an early age. Even the Inchcool downInch songs on this album have an undulating, rhythmic pulse. For example, the alt country/blues InchA Little Breath InInch is all about breathing, the most consistent rhythmic activity in life. Michael Napolitano grew up in a home filled with music making. From an early age, Michael equated music with family. His dad, Tony Napolitano, had several top 10 hits as drummer with the ?50s doo-wop group, The Ideals. This band toured with Fabian, Frankie Avalon, and Joey Dee and the Starlighters, opened for Count Basie in Jersey City, and played the Jerry Lewis Telethon. Tony later joined the sensational doo-wop band Chang Lee & The Zani-Acts & The Yum-Yum Girls, performing alongside a young Joe Pesci, who sang first tenor. Surrounded by all things musical, Michael foun
