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This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. This biography of a living person needs additional references or sources for verification. Tagged since January 2010. It is written like an advertisement and needs to be rewritten from a neutral point of view. Tagged since January 2010. Leib Ostrow an American music producer, was born in Detroit in 1951 and developed a keen love of music at an early age. During his childhood, his mother actively supported his interest with outings to see artists such as Theodore Bikel, Pete Seeger and Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Orchestra. At age 13 he was given a guitar from a pawn shop for his birthday and played guitar in a rock band throughout junior high school, transitioning into a Dylan-esque folk singer during high school. He started teaching guitar in a music store and within a few weeks was managing it. At nineteen, while attending Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, he opened a tiny musical instrument shop and within three years, with the help of his brother Laury, he expanded to a chain of four stores located across southern Michigan, becoming the largest Martin guitar dealer in the Midwest. He then participated in manufacturing handmade guitars and banjos (Franklin Guitars, Great Lakes Banjos) . They took over a farm their father had purchased and founded one of the country’s first mail order music catalogs, Guitar’s Friend. The brothers printed it on the farm and from there shipped instruments all over the world. At the same time they turned the farm into one of the finest biodynamic organic farms in the area, supplying much of southern Michigan with organic carrots and beets. Leib hitchhiked to San Francisco in 1974 to learn how to build the traditional American stringed folk instrument, dulcimers, from Rodney Albin, brother of the bass player in Big Brother and the Holding Company. He ended up purchasing Rodney's music store in Haight-Ashbury and named it Chickens That Sing Music (inspired by a dream his girlfriend at the time had), figuring that Haight Ashbury was the only place he could use that name effectively! That store became a busy hub for the world music scene in the Bay area. Music luminaries such as Mickey Hart from the Grateful Dead and Armanda Peraza from Santana would hang out at the store for impromptu jam sessions. The store’s staff also set up an African music school called Oriki and an extension of Ali Akbar Khan's Indian music school. In 1976 Leib borrowed a Volkswagen van and headed north through areas he had hitchhiked across years before, looking for a place to settle. After a few months of traveling he stumbled onto a “little hippie town” in southern Humboldt County in the middle of the giant redwood forests of northern California. A forest service captain-turned realtor took him up to 120 acres (0.49 km2) with 360 degree views for miles, and Leib knew he had found the perfect spot. After a few years of hitchhiking to San Francisco and flying to Michigan to attend to business, he sold his interest in the music stores and began building a home out of the salvage redwood left from the devastating logging that had attacked his land thirty years earlier. As he began to understand the delicate balance of the Redwood ecosystem and how much destruction had been wreaked by the aggressive logging practices of the 1950s and 60's, Leib became active in protecting these forests from further devastation. He co-founded the Trees Foundation (Treesfoundation.org), which aims to restore the ecological integrity of California’s North Coast by empowering and assisting regional community-based conservation and restoration projects. Leib then started raising a family with his then-wife, and decided to enter the world of children's music. He sold from in a mail order catalog designed for families, took phone orders, and shipped from a makeshift packing station in his living room. The catalog's circulation reaching 500,000 as the headquarters, and the operation moved to successively larger quarters, eventually to the local town of Redway (pop. 2,000). Two years later, he began actually producing a recording for children. Through a mutual friend, he called on his long-time musical hero Taj Mahal who had a large brood of children and was passionate about collaborating on a recording for children. The result was the award-winning "Shake Sugaree," featuring traditional American folk and blues songs as well as originals. Next came a benefit peace project for Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream called "Peace is the World Smilin'," for which Leib worked with artists including Pete Seeger, Sweet Honey in the Rock and Holly Near. Next Leib brought his children to the island of Kauai to work with Taj Mahal on a project with Cedella Marley Booker, recording the Jamaican folk music that she had sung and played for her son, Bob Marley. Michael Ostin, from Warner Bros. Records, offered him either do a complete buyout or a joint venture partnership. Leib turned down an offer to sell Music for Little People and move down to Los Angeles to become a vice president. but instead accept the offer for a joint venture/partnership with Music for Little People that would allow the business to remain in Redway. A partnership was formed with Leib at the helm. The next few years were marked by a huge growth spurt. Leib accessed Warner Bros. Records’ array of artists, recording masters and connections to the other labels. A recording called “Papa's Dream” with Los Lobos garnered Leib his first Grammy nomination. He traveled to South Africa to record Ladysmith Black Mambazo and produced his first compilation, “Child's Celebration,” using children's songs recorded by Paul Simon, James Taylor, Judy Garland, The Doobie Brothers and Anne Murray. A country music project for kids done with the support of Warner Bros. Nashville brought in tracks from artists including Faith Hill, Randy Travis, Chet Atkins, and Brenda Lee. A blues for kids project featured B.B. King, Buckwheat Zydeco and the last song ever recorded by the legendary Jimmy Witherspoon. Total sales for Music for Little People almost tripled in three years. In 1994, Warner Bros. Records decided to end all joint ventures. Leib bought back full ownership in Music for Little People forged a distribution arrangement with the Warner Bros. Records imprint Rhino Records. Since then, Leib has produced over 75 more recordings including songs by Brian Johnson of AC/DC, Willie Nelson, Danny Glover and Ted Danson. He traveled with his youngest daughter to southern Ireland to record Donovan Leitch of Mellow Yellow fame. Another Grammy nomination came with the recording “Shakin' a Tailfeather,” featuring Taj Mahal, Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir. The CD won numerous Parent's Choice and American Library Association awards. In 2007, Leib sold the mail order/website part of Music for Little People to the Trudy Corporation, and focused on producing. In January 2010 Leib kicked off Music for Little People's 25th anniversary year with the release of two CDs: "Pickin' & Grinnin': Great Folk Songs for Kids" and "Love & Peace: Greatest Hits for Kids." More releases are planned throughout the year. Leib plans to travel to Louisiana in 2010 to co-produce his second recording with Buckwheat Zydeco, help produce a jug band recording with Maria Muldaur and a children’s Hawaiian music project with Taj Mahal. He is also planning a trip to Cuba to produce a children's project. References LA Times Time Magazine Voice of America External links Leib Ostrow Music for Little People Persondata Name Ostrow, Leib Alternative names Short description Date of birth 1951 Place of birth Date of death Place of death