Kate Micucci on Putting Together Kids’ Songs ‘Like a Puzzle’ & Making ‘The Monster and Puppet Show!’ Picture Book
Categoria: Musica
"Share what you make and bring joy to people," she tells kids afraid to share their creations.
Por Billboard | 13/07/2026
Kate Micucci wants to put a smile on your face. That’s her goal for all her artistic projects, and she’s not afraid to be silly to do it. She gets excited when she’s writing a new song. She lights up when she has a paintbrush and a blank canvas. She loves acting in movies and TV shows — and enjoys voicing characters like Velma in Scooby-Doo and Webby in DuckTales . Related Kate Micucci Released a Kids’ Album and Found Out She Had Cancer the Same Day — A Year Later, She’s Back With ‘My Hat’ Madonna, Stuart Price & Honey Dijon Knock Out New York City With Club Confessions Madonna & Michael Jackson Are in the Billboard 200's Top 10 Together for the First Time in 25 Years After her son was born, Micucci decided to share her joy by making her first children’s album . My Hat celebrates the wonderfully weird and looks at the everyday in new ways. What made you want to make music? My mom is a piano teacher, so music was always in my house. Since the age of 4, piano lessons were a part of my life every day. With piano having such a big role in your childhood, why did you choose to play the ukulele? I was visiting my aunt and uncle in Hawaii. I was missing my piano. My grandpa took me to the music store and bought me my first ukulele. Little did I know it was going to be such an important part of my life. How do you start creating a new song? A phrase with a little melody just hits me. Then I’ll go: “Wait. What was that? Hello.” I’ll talk to it a little bit and figure out if it’s a song. My brain works with melody first. That comes in waves. Usually, that first verse and chorus come together out of nowhere. I figure out the lyrics after that, once I know what I am writing about. Then I have to figure out the rest, like a puzzle. What inspired one of the songs from your album My Hat ? Even the most whimsical ones come from something that I experienced. “Mr. Moon” came from when I was driving down the road. I watched a full moon look like it fell into the ocean. I thought to myself, “What are the fish thinking right now?” What’s one of your favorite lyrics on the album? One of my favorite lyrics is from “King of the World.” I say, “Finally, I get to finish this song.” I started writing “King of the World” 12 years before I had a kid in my life. I thought, “I am writing this for my son. I am going to stop and work on this once I actually have a son.” So I had “King of the World” living in my head for a long time. Then when I had Mikey, I could finish writing the song for him. I sing it to him every night before bed. What has been most exciting about releasing My Hat ? One of my most exciting days ever was the first time we performed the album live at Bob Baker Marionette Theater. I had a whole band behind me. My son was playing guitar next to me. The puppets were dancing around me. All the kids were jumping. It felt like, “This is what I want to do. This is the best thing ever.̶