"I am my dreams!" This sums up the spirit of Janet Sclaroff. She is music. She is optimism. She is a believer.

Janet is actually a music and movement teacher who has extended her audience from the classroom to the stage. With guitar in hand, she writes upbeat, rhythmic music that gets everyone singing, clapping and dancing. It's music for kids, but according to Janet's grownup fans, it's wonderful for all ages.

"Tyrannosaurus Rex", Oh, I Wanna Be a Kid", and "Granny" are some of the titles of her popular tunes included on her award-winning first album, "Sing Along With Janet". She launched her first recording in the spring of 1993 at a sold-out performance. "Sing Along With Janet" is the title and it describes exactly what happens at her shows.. . Everyone sings along with her humorous songs that enlighten, educate and entertain.

Janet taught herself to play the guitar and dragged it and her love of folkmusic everywhere she went...camp, college and even on her adventure in Europe while in college. She received her B.A. in English/Secondary Ed. in 1972 from Monmouth University.

After graduating college, marrying, teaching, and becoming a mother, Janet combined her ability as an educator with her love of music and guitar and began teaching music at Camp Tikvah in 1981. After this, she became a preschool music and movement specialist at the Jewish Community Center in Cherry Hill, NJ. It was the natural extension to community theater that led her more directly to the stage.

The logical next step for Janet Sclaroff was songwriting. After all, Janet wrote poetry, taught music, sang and played the guitar. It was in 1987 that she seriously pursued songwriting. She found people who had written songs and asked them how they did it....what did it feel like? Janet then went home and did exactly what they told her, which was to set aside a few uninterrupted hours, get out a tape recorder, pen and paper and sit with the guitar, start strumming and see if any thoughts or images occurred.

The most amazing thing to Janet was that she sold her first three songs to a children's radio station called "Kidwaves" which, of course, assured her that she was going in the right direction.

During this time, Janet was performing throughout the region with Mark Segal and his puppets. They were regulars of Strawbridge & Clothier's Bigg Saturdays and were together as a team for nine years.

She also served as a creative consultant to special education teacher Felice Kane, who developed The Learning Beat, an educational and fun tape/book series that highlights grammar, punctuation, spelling and math skills through music. This was also a time when Janet was performing her adult-acoustic music in coffee houses in the Philadelphia area.

In 1997, Janet produced a pilot of a kid's show for TV and began searching for a home for her show, Janet's Planet. Her first album, Sing Along With Janet, was awarded 2002 Best Classic Recording For Young Children by www.childrensmusic.org. and the Goodbye song has been used in a text book and CD created by Cornelsen Verlag for teaching English to kids in Germany.She is active in the Children's Music Network, Philadelphia Area Songwriters Association, Children's Entertainment Association, and NARAS. She loves doing her popular concerts where she calls kids up on stage for "Little Tyke Open Mike" and for participation in the chorus, and she loves teaching songwriting workshops.......in other words, Janet is filled with spirit, enthusiasm and idealism. She transmits this to the families in her audience. She's waving her own magic wand and fulfilling her dreams.