Nursery rhymes for active play.
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NILLA Nursery Rhymes is a new music album and audio player for the first years of life, created by Brooklyn musician and producer Onili. It reimagines classic nursery rhymes with rich original production across multiple languages, recorded with over 30 musicians including children. While the music plays, the parent-led app offers three synchronized layers: lyrics with translations, movement prompts timed to the music, and plain-language developmental insights rooted in early childhood science. The caregiver is the DJ. No screen is required for the child. Calm, minimal, and carefully designed, music that kids love and parents can enjoy while moving and connecting with their child.
Big Brains in Small Bodies
Young children are extraordinary learners. Between birth and age six, the brain is at peak plasticity. During these years, children are building the foundations that make all learning possible: attention, memory, language, emotional regulation, and the ability to keep trying when something is hard. Nursery rhymes are more than songs children love. They are powerful tools.
In Big Brains you'll find the science behind NILLA's songs, and a curated library with some of the most fascinating researchers and authors of our times.
Press a song to see what it helps build.
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Become a founding familyThe crew behind NILLA
"I knew I was a musician before I could talk. There was so much music in me as a child, but no way to bring it into the world through learning an instrument. The ideas arrived long before the tools. It was only when I got my first four-track recorder that I could turn the music in my mind into something real."
NILLA changes that, giving young children age-appropriate tools to understand music's creative language and begin their own music-making journey.
A multi-medium artist based in France. Amandine created the cut-paper world of NILLA by hand, and helped shape the brand image as well as the full digital world.
Tony played on almost all the Nursery Rhymes songs, and is the voice behind Tony.
Kids Teach
Kids teach kids.
We are looking for children ages 4 to 10 to join the NILLA kids crew and teach other kids through video.
If your child loves to show, explain, and lead, come be part of it.
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