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About
YouTube star famous for writing, recording, and releasing songs with accompanying videos aimed at educating children. He releases his songs for free via his website. His songs are categorized as original kids' songs, traditional kids' songs, vocabulary chants, elementary school English chants, and Halloween songs and chants. The video for his song "Daddy Finger with Matt" was released on March 7, 2017 and has received over 250 million views.
Before Fame
He began teaching English to elementary school students in 2007. He began creating music videos in 2009.
Trivia
His songs are typically accompanied by hand gestures to reinforce the words he is teaching with actions. The songs are meant for both ESL and EFL students. His Dream English Kids YouTube channel has gained 3.7 million subscribers and 3.4 billion views. He has amassed over 30,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. His music went viral online after the comedy writer Noah Garfinkel tweeted about his frustration with Richelson's version of the ABC song due to the slowing down and rephrasing of the LMNOP section.
Family Life
He was born in the United States.
Associated With
He claims one of the best children's songs melodically is "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," which is based on a tune by Maman by Bouin and was further popularized by a set of variations written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
