Gigi & Mike

Gigi & Mike throw a musical party for the whole family with their lively sing-along hootenannies. Their concerts help teach kids how to create their own lyrics, play basic percussion instruments, and build great music and storytelling into their lives. Gigi Johnson is a a funny soprano and part-time comedienne who realized from her own children's friends and classmates that somewhere along the line, families stopped singing......and since then, she and Mike Salas have worked to reintroduce singing and folk music to families, one concert, CD, and cable/broadband show at a time.

Gigi Johnson is a a funny soprano and part-time comedienne who realized from her own children's friends and classmates that somewhere along the line, families stopped singing......and since then, she and Mike Salas have worked to reintroduce singing and folk music to families, one concert, CD, and cable/broadband show at a time. She was born in Fresno, Calif. in 1962, and currently lives and performs in Southern California. She has been singing jazz standards and folk music since the 1980s and probably lives musically in the 1920s and 1960s. She runs a digital media company, Maremel, and teaches at UCLA Anderson School in digital media and has produced several children's television shows, including Gigi & Mike's "Let's Sing Together," which can still be found on Google Video and other places on the web.

Mike Salas is a long-time singer-songwriter, born in Los Angeles, Calif. in 1961. He melds careers in music with teaching, and has been a preschool and kindergarten teacher for more than 15 years. He has been lead singer and guitar for several bands around Southern California, including Satellite Dogs and Three Bean Salad. He currently performs his own music around Southern California in addition to performing as part of Gigi & Mike. He's also a recurring guest on KCET's A Place of Our Own for two seasons, including featured sessions about the use of music in teaching and kids' lives.