It all started a few years back with a 3-year-old little girl singing “Part Of Your World” from Disney’s The Little Mermaid soundtrack.
She blew everyone away with her angelic and pitch-perfect singing voice and little princess looks. For the past three years, Claire Crosby and her dad, Dave, have been performing together and posting the videos on their YouTube channel.
She’s been on The Ellen Show twice.
She’s performed other Disney songs on their YouTube channel. She’s been cast in the remake of The Little Mermaid starring Shirley MacLaine and Poppy Drayton. She even appeared and sang on NBC’s Little Big Shots when she was four years old.
And now The Crosby family is back with their latest video!
The new Lion King movie just came out in cinemas so it’s only fitting that the Crosby family comes out with their own Lion King video at the same time.
And not only did they produce a Lion King video but they sang every song from The Lion King movie in this one!
The video starts off with Dave and the opening chant in The Circle of Life. And then Claire appears dressed in an adorable yellow pantsuit with a tribal-inspired design on the neckline and neckpiece. Ashley, Claire’s mom, also makes an appearance in the video. She plays all the songs sung on the piano. And, of course, Carson and June, her brother and sister, make an appearance, too!
They’ve only posted the video less than a week ago and it’s already achieved over 800k views to date.
If you don’t know her yet, Claire Ryann Crosby started singing when she was only a year and a half old.
“She was slamming her hands on our little keyboard in the living room,” Dave recalled in an interview with Parents magazine. “She started hitting the same note over and over, and then she began to sing the exact same note. I was sure at that moment that she was going to be able to sing.”
And then, when she was 22 months old, Dave asked Claire if she could sing a bedtime lullaby. And Claire sang it with perfect pitch.
Then they introduced her to Disney songs and Claire was obsessed! She loved Frozen, of course. But Dave and Ashley wanted her to know the classics, too. So they introduced her to The Little Mermaid and its signature song, “Part Of Your World”. She fell in love with the song!
“She would request it whenever we drove around in the car,” Dave shared. “Pretty soon, she was singing the entire song word for word everywhere.”
The idea to create a video didn’t come to Dave’s mind until they were at the shop getting an oil change.
While he was paying, Claire began to sing Part Of Your World around the waiting area. The people waiting laughed and smiled and recorded the performance on their phones.
“That gave me the idea to put a video on YouTube. A few months later, during Christmas break, we finally made our first video to the song from Little Mermaid,” Dave told Parents magazine.
They posted the video on January 2016 on YouTube and became a viral hit with 18 million views, as of July 2019.
“It really was just for family and friends,” Claire’s mother, Ashley Crosby, told Deseret News. “We… never ever thought — it wasn’t our plan to do a channel with her ever, but it was something that just grew.”
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