Graduation
You still remember her small hand at the kindergarten gate. Today she walks across a stage without looking back.
A graduation song for your daughter, from the parent who drove her there
You remember the first day of kindergarten and the night before her finals. Put both in a song, add where she is headed, and she gets a graduation gift that sounds like home.
Hear the second a name lands
Oh Xiomara, you finally made it through.
You wrote“Finished nursing school at night while working the morning shift at the bakery.”
The song singsYou worked the morning shift on Fifth Street, then studied through the quiet night-time hours.
From a real song made here: “Sweet Xiomara”, for Xiomara, from what her best friend typed.
The moment you give it
She is still holding the diploma like it might disappear. The song goes from the kindergarten gate to the final exam she nearly skipped, and she turns the volume up herself.
Now playing
A song with your name in it
Heading to the celebration dinner
Passenger seat: her, diploma on her lap
After the ceremony, the drive to dinner
Start with one memory
Pick a question. The form opens with your first line already started.
A real graduation song
Xiomara’s best friend wrote it when she finished nursing school; a parent’s song follows the same shape.
What you get for $12.99
You hear it first, free. You pay once, only if you keep it.
- Free preview
- The first 60 seconds, ready in about two minutes after you enter your email. No card.
- The song
- The full song, about two minutes long, as an MP3 to download and keep.
- Lyrics
- Every line is on the preview page before you pay. Unlocking adds the lyric sheet, to print or save as a PDF.
- Their link
- A private link that plays the whole song without an account, with your name and a short note. Switch it off any time.
- Photo video
- Free: a vertical 9:16 photo video of your photos with the lyrics on screen, plus 15- and 30-second cuts. Made in your browser.
- The name
- Unusual name? Type how to say it (SEER-sha for Saoirse) and the singer says it that way.
- Re-record
- One free re-record per song: change a line, the style or the voice and record it again.
- Name sung wrong?
- After you pay, a free remake with the name fixed, once per song.
- Languages
- Sung in English, German, French, Spanish or Japanese.
- Teaser
- Before you pay, a 15-second teaser link that tells them a song is on its way.
- For this song
- From mom or dad: pick daughter or son in the form and the lyrics are written in a parent's voice.
- For a party or school slideshow: the photo video sets your photos to the song, or download the MP3 and use it under your own.
Moments from the road to graduation
- The first day of school: the outfit, the backpack, the wave at the gate.
- A subject she fought with and beat.
- The friends she made and the ones graduating with her.
- The night she nearly quit and didn’t.
- What she wants to do next: a job, a city, a degree.
- What you want her to remember when it gets hard.
High school or college
A high school graduation song can look back at childhood and forward to leaving home. A college one can be more about who she has become and the work it took. The Xiomara sample, written for nursing school, shows how a song can celebrate effort rather than awards.
Style and voice
R&B / soul and upbeat pop make the song a celebration, which suits a party. A piano ballad with a female voice is the gentler choice for the car ride home after the ceremony.
For example
For example, a dad might write: she studied at the kitchen table every night with her headphones on and a bowl of popcorn; she failed her driving test twice and passed on the third try; in the fall she starts engineering school three states away. The song gets a scene, a bit of humor and a send-off, and her name carries the chorus.
More song ideas
Questions
From the first wave at the gate.
Start with her name and the night she nearly quit.