Sandra Beech is a Canadian children's musician

Children's music

Children's music is used here to refer to music composed and performed for children by adults. In European influenced contexts this means music, usually songs, written specifically for a juvenile audience. The composers are usually adults. Children's music has historically held both entertainment...

. She was a member of the family music group The Musical Millars after relocating to Canada in 1953. After her 1964 marriage to Len Beech, she specialised in recording children's music.

Her brothers, Will

Will Millar

Will Millar is an Irish-Canadian singer best known as a co-founding member of The Irish Rovers. Until his departure in 1995, he was the group's front man. He plays guitar, banjo, mandolin and tin whistle....

 and George Millar

George Millar (singer)

George Millar, is a singer/songwriter and guitarist with the Irish-Canadian music group The Irish Rovers.George was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, ca. 1947, the brother of Will Millar and Sandra Beech. As children, they performed as "The Millar Kids" in Ireland, before the family emigrated to...

 plus her cousin Joe Millar were members of The Irish Rovers

The Irish Rovers

The Irish Rovers is a Canadian Irish folk group created in 1963 and named after the traditional song "The Irish Rover". The group is best known for their international television series, and renditions of traditional Irish drinking songs, as well as early hits, Shel Silverstein's "The Unicorn",...

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Sandra Beech has three daughters with her husband Len Beech: Carrie Beech, Heather Beech and Jennifer Beech

Jennifer Beech

Jennifer Beech is a Canadian television host. She is the daughter of In the early 1990s she appeared on YTV as "PJ Jenn." She left YTV in 1994 to become the host of BBS Master Control which consisted of a line-up of children's programming from Walt Disney Animation Studios...

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Awards and recognition

• 1980: nominee, Juno Award for Best Children's Album
  Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year
  The Juno Award for "Children's Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1979, as recognition each year for the best children's album in Canada.-Best Children's Album :*1979 - Anne Murray, There's a Hippo in My Tub...
  
  , Chickery Chick
• 1982: winner, Juno Award for Best Children's Album
  Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year
  The Juno Award for "Children's Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1979, as recognition each year for the best children's album in Canada.-Best Children's Album :*1979 - Anne Murray, There's a Hippo in My Tub...
  
  , Inch By Inch
• 1991: nominee, Juno Award for Best Children's Album
  Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year
  The Juno Award for "Children's Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1979, as recognition each year for the best children's album in Canada.-Best Children's Album :*1979 - Anne Murray, There's a Hippo in My Tub...
  
  , Yes I Can
• 1999: nominee, Juno Award for Best Children's Album
  Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year
  The Juno Award for "Children's Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1979, as recognition each year for the best children's album in Canada.-Best Children's Album :*1979 - Anne Murray, There's a Hippo in My Tub...
  
  , Celebrate the Music

Discography

• 1979: Chickery Chick
• 1982: Inch By Inch (Attic
  Attic Records (Canada)
  Attic Records was a Canadian independent record label, founded in 1974 by Alexander Mair and Tom Williams. The label was known for developing Canadian talent, including Anvil, Lee Aaron, Maestro Fresh Wes, The Nylons, Teenage Head, and Triumph...
  
  )
• 1982: Sunshine Songs (Attic
  Attic Records (Canada)
  Attic Records was a Canadian independent record label, founded in 1974 by Alexander Mair and Tom Williams. The label was known for developing Canadian talent, including Anvil, Lee Aaron, Maestro Fresh Wes, The Nylons, Teenage Head, and Triumph...
  
  )
• 1984: Songs About Animals and Others (Golden)
• 1984: Sidewalk Shuffle (Kids Records)
• 1989: Yes I Can (A&M
  A&M Records
  A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...
  
  )
• 1994: The Celtic Collection (Western Publishing/Golden)
• 1995: Sandra Beech sings safety songs (OBPPI)
• 1998: Celebrate the Music (Page Music) ISBN 0968109063
• 2003: The Pretend Box Songs (compilation, Page Music/EMI)

External links

• Sandra Beech official site