Randy Kaplan is a musician and songwriter who blends American roots, pop, punk, jazz, hip-hop, and comedic storytelling in his songs for kids and families. His Delta Blues and ragtime-tinged songs have inspired the likes of NPR, The National Blues Society, and People magazine to name Randy one of the nation's top family entertainers. “He doesn’t dumb it down for the kids.... He just expects them to come along for the ride. And they do” (Time Out New York Kids).

Randy has released seven family CDs independently and with Universal Music and My Kazoo Music. He has received multiple ASCAP awards and has judged contests on ASCAP panels as well. Randy has toured throughout the United States performing at festivals, theaters, and many other venues including 92nd Street Y, Symphony Space, and The Getty Museum. His work has been awarded top honors from NAPPA (National Parenting Publication Awards), been voted a Top Five CD in the Nickelodeon Parents’ Picks Awards, been featured prominently in children’s magazines and on family websites, and has appeared on the Top Ten lists of NPR, People magazine, Time Out New York Kids, Fids & Kamily, Zooglobble, OWTK, Family Man Online (where it was also awarded the #1 spot), and many others. His recordings have appeared on compilations such as Putumayo’s American Playground and Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti.

Randy studied philosophy, writing, and English literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and at UCLA. He then trained in writing and improvisation, and he studied music theory and guitar at the Dick Grove School of Music. Randy has a master's degree in teaching from Oakland University. He has published essays on education in the Language Arts Journal of Michigan (LAJM) and currently teaches English literature and composition in the upper school at Detroit Country Day School in Beverly Hills, Michigan. His others tasks as an educator have included teaching songwriting, directing school plays, and leading guitar workshops.

Randy Kaplan is “offbeat, smart and funny, funny, funny!” (Mindy Thomas, SiriusXM Radio’s Kids Place Live DJ and NPR’s Wow in the World).

“Kaplan tells inventive stories in folk songs, and his greatest strength is his ability to listen to and interact with the kids who are his audience and to turn that into stories in song” (Zooglobble).