About Ms. Yaniza Doré

Yaniza founded Little Bird Ukulele in 2020, known then as Free Bird by Yaniza. Her passion for performing and writing songs is met equally by her passion for teaching and learning. She has been working with children in some capacity for over a decade, including everything from head teacher to camp counselor, school intern, camp director, assistant teacher, babysitter, musical teaching artist, you name it! Yaniza is a 2020 graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University where she earned a Master's Degree in Early Childhood Education with a concentration in Music Ed. The spark for teaching ukulele was two fold: Yaniza was enrolled in numerous courses in grad school where she got to write and teach music curriculum to young children, including the Music Explorers course, where she specifically taught ukulele. She was also inspired to start her business by fans on YouTube requesting tutorials of her cover songs.

As an artist, Yaniza has worked with acclaimed and GRAMMY nominated producers and engineers, and has been featured on popular music blogs like PopSugar and Glamour. Her original music and cover songs have garnered hundreds of thousands of views/streams across platforms, and have caught the attention of pop icons such as Colbie Caillat and Becky G. A snippet of Yaniza's cheerful ukulele tune, "Fly Away (Free Bird)" - which inspired the former name of her business - rapidly reached nearly one million views on TikTok, leading to praise from makeup brand, Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez. Yaniza's beachy song, "Happiness," appeared in a social campaign for Karisma Hotels, and Kate Spade NY reached out to have her perform for their summer cabana pop-up events around NYC. Yaniza has no plans of slowing down!

Tutorials & Original Music

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