Bio
Natalia Bernal is one half of Aguacate Music Kids. Natalia had the great fortune of meeting Anna-Maria Violich-Olivier in the spring of 2015, when Natalia took her four year-old child to a Music Together class which Anna-Maria was teaching. They started chatting and realized that they were both Spanish-immersion teachers with a passion for children’s music. In 2017, Natalia invited Anna-Maria to join her in developing and teaching the Healthy Me/Saludable Soy Program, a health education program for young kids through music and movement. They quickly grew their friendship and teaching partnership and, over the course of the next seven years, expanded the program to many cities in the San Francisco East Bay Area. Being bilingual teachers with a passion for music, and moms of bilingual children, they realized that, together, they could write simple yet engaging kids’ songs to teach about healthy habits. In 2020, they released a bilingual EP of songs called Sabroso under the band name Healthy Me/Saludable Soy. They rebranded themselves as Aguacate Music Kids in 2022.
Anna-Maria and Natalia both have bilingual teaching credentials, and masters degrees in education, and each have about 10 years experience as elementary public school teachers. Natalia’s family is from Uruguay and Anna-Maria is from Venezuela. They were both raised bilingually and they both currently live in Berkeley, CA.
