Lenny Pearce has been making electronic music for years and uploading it to Soundcloud, but his career has soared until he does anything like a live broadcast at the club.
“The first ones that really take off are head, shoulders, knees and toes,” the Australian producer said.
He is talking about the editing of the classic children’s song, which encourages children to touch their heads, shoulders, knees and toes. (And the eyes, ears, mouth and nose.) However, Pierce’s version is not traditional singing, but is presented with a wave of kicks and dark synthesizers.
It’s one of many normative children’s songs Pearce plays a dance combo, who forged a genre called “Toddler Technology” and used his baby revelry to carve niches in the tour world.
So far, Pearce has hosted events in Australia, Bahrain, Singapore and the United States, and he started his ten-day tour this week. Running hit nine U.S. cities at the end of the month, and each game welcomes 700 to 1,500 children and parents. Most shows sold out in minutes, with over 11,000 tickets in total. After the United States, he was going to Malaysia and made an offer to Kenya.
“Rhyme is exactly what everyone knows,” he said of his global needs.
DJ-ing All-Ages Party started entertainment without participating in Pearce’s radar. 15 years ago, he was a member of a 10-person burglary crew member who won the victory Australia has talent In 2010. The team, Captain Judges then turned into a boy band, hitting a single like “Boom Boom” that ranked No. 1 on the Australian Aria singles chart. Pearce DJ was part of the judicial staff and fell in love with production, eventually making the organization focus on it. Although his career was “everywhere”, he said he ended up being a growing producer, working in houses and tech companies and uploading music to streaming platforms while trying to get the attention of record labels.
Then, two years ago, his first child – daughter – was born. “She grabbed my heart,” Pierce said. “I want to do everything for her.” He is still making music, but suddenly he is also a full-time father. And, with any parent who spends long hours with young children, traditional children’s music pops up in many rotations of the Pierce family.
“She loves ‘wheels on the bus’, all of that,” his daughter Pierce said. “With my creativity, I think I could remix these songs and put them on Tiktok.” In the bottle, he works from the home studio. “And it started taking off from there.”
One of Pearce’s earliest uploads was a technical editor for “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”, which quickly gained 500,000 views, while Pearce’s followers grew from over 30,000 followers to over 1 million when uploading other kid-centric club editors. (He now has 2.1 million followers on the platform.) The track’s success led him to sign up for countless mixes of Dutch dance record company Spinnin, a brand he has been working on to get attention for years. In 2024, Spinnin’ released his Slinky Club version of “Bus Wheels”, which has 2.3 million views on YouTube alone.
Pearce’s career is also because his identical twin brother, John Pearce, is a current member of the Australian children’s group “Swingman”. (The brothers are also members of the judicial officers.) This connection allows Lenny to remix the entire Wiggles album into Swing Sound System: Innocent CarnivalIt contains 14 classic editors from the group. The album ranked No. 1 on the ARIA Australian Dance Albums chart.
Pierce’s work is not a complete reshaping of the wheels. Snoop Dogg has his own interpretation of children’s music, and in 2020, Marshmello and his team leveraged the artist’s popularity among children and launched a child-centric content platform. Dance editing for children’s songs has been around for years, but is mostly one-off, which makes it harder for parents to understand.
“No artist has been doing this all the time,” Pierce said. “There will be a random version of the trap, like “Five Little Ducklings.” But, in the eyes of young children and parents, no artist can pursue that sound.”
Pierce said the information he gets from parents around the world is usually a feeling of gratitude because his music provides something children love, but unlike traditional children’s fares, which can be annoying with repetition. His music is also a way for parents to connect with the club atmosphere, many of whom define their childhood.
So the toddler Techno Live activity is the next reasonable step, with Pearce signing an agency with WME late last year.
“DJ’s performances for kids and families sound crazy enough, and that’s the real way,” said Pearce agent Peter Schwartz. “The family market is strong – parents need entertainment! Lanney’s avid kids and parents were attracted to entertainment not long ago.
For Wit, Pearce’s current U.S. tour sold out in ten minutes, with most markets adding a second show, Scwartz said. Running is Pierce’s first high heels Toddler’s Technique (Volume 1)Released in March. Pearce is playing traditional pop/rock venues such as the start of the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, the Brooklyn Bowl and Chicago, and the larger fall tour currently ongoing during the planning phase. Display tickets range from $30 to $40, and there are some places for kids Free.
“Ranny did something more interesting, fresher, and more edgy than other kids’ behaviors. We think it really set him apart,” Skeworz said.
With a warm personality, wide braids, Pearce brings him the right cartoon qualities, and he says the kids always attract him naturally, which makes him the ideal artist for gatherings designed for families. (For wit, he also works with the commanders of children’s entertainment (Nick, Disney, and Hasbro).) His performance even welcomes the latest newborns (“like, like, the baby is in the carriage, he said,” he said), which doesn’t sit down, which means that the kids and parents can roam like dancers like participants.
On the way, Pearce saw the whole family wearing other families in mermaid costumes and tutus. (His now two-year-old daughter also prefers the latter’s accessories, and Pierce and his wife welcome a baby boy in April.) The show also offers a face finish, hair bundles and a photo booth, with a huge inflatable octopus at a recent event located in the middle of the dance floor. These elements are obviously children-centric, but they are no different from the standard events and styles of adult clubs and festivals. At a show in Philadelphia earlier this week, the kids grabbed lampshades and wore sunglasses on the dance floor, and their parents did the same.
Pierce heard a lot of jokes about attendees taking apple juice with alcohol photography and admitted that one of the reasons why what he did was so popular was because “it was like an extreme. The culture of carnival should all be about drugs and parties, it’s about drugs and parties and then the kids are so innocent.
Upcoming music can keep fists. Pearce soon released a new album of children’s classics that he had the ability to reconfigure these songs, as many of them were large enough to cover in the public domain and not affected by copyright. When Pierce finally got good through the classics of children, he said he would only change the genre and do all the same music in drums, bass or deep or reggae. “When we ride our bikes, we all retire.”
Meanwhile, he seems to have found his call artist and dad.
“Many parents said they were playing with my mix in the car on the way to school or daycare, and it wasn’t a buzz,” he said. “Kids love it, they love it.”
