Eddie Coker



Edward Eugene Coker (born December 1, 1960, in Midland, Texas) is a children's singer/songwriter from Dallas, Texas, now living in Manitou Springs, Colorado.

Coker grew up in Highland Park, Texas, attended Highland Park High School, and earned a degree in music from Southern Methodist University. Originally an opera singer, Coker has been writing, recording, and performing children's music since 1987. Coker's songs draw on a wide range of rock and popular influences ranging from The B-52's and Queen to classical music. His songs and performances also feature fanciful and quirky characters such as Fred, a "purple red-truck-driving duck", and Regina, a musician-turned-construction-worker octopus.

Coker has composed music for Barney & Friends, Chuck E. Cheese's, and Borders Books, and was the host of the Saturday-morning show "The Weird, Wild World of Eddie Coker" on Radio Disney. He typically performs over 200 concerts a year; fellow Texas musician Sara Hickman described him as "the James Brown of children's music... The hardest-working man in kids' show business."

Discography

 * The Happy One (1992)
 * Say Hello (1994)
 * Welcome to the Island (1995)
 * What's Cooking? (1996)
 * Schnorgel & Berg (1998)
 * E.C. on CD (compilation) (1998)
 * Wow! (compilation) (1998)
 * Hmmm.... (compilation) (1998)
 * Save Our Planet (compilation) (2000)
 * Seven Songs (compilation) (2002)
 * Wezmore (2014)

Videos

 * Sock Lobster
 * Take A Walk on the Child Side
 * The Bright Side of the Moon
 * Kids for Character-Himself
 * Choices Count-Himself
 * Eddie Coker Rocks Your World