{"id":2308121,"date":"2026-03-02T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2308121"},"modified":"2026-03-02T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:11:50","slug":"meet-the-dad-making-music-from-toddler-twaddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/meet-the-dad-making-music-from-toddler-twaddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Dad Making Music from Toddler Twaddle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On October 16, 2025, Stephen Spencer sent his mother a fifty-three-second video that he had made. It was her birthday. In the video, Spencer, a composer, plays keyboard and guitar and sings in a gorgeous tenor that reaches effortlessly to falsetto. The song relays, word for word, a story by his three-year-old daughter about a girl who won\u2019t stop wiggling.<\/p>\n
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There was a little woman Who liked wigglin\u2019 so much. She liked wigglin\u2019, she just really liked wigglin\u2019. Her mom said, her mommy said, You can\u2019t\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. You can\u2019t keep wigglin\u2019, honey, you gotta stop wigglin\u2019.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
After sending the video to his mother, Spencer posted it on Instagram, to his thirty-six followers. \u201cMost of them were my mom\u2019s friends,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Today, about four months and fifteen videos later, Spencer has roughly three hundred thousand followers. In that time, more than thirty million people have streamed his videos, the lyrics of which are written by his daughter. Songs such as \u201cPurple bear princess (she was a grown up dog),\u201d \u201cApple The Stoola (he was an apple man),\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m an important mermaid.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one is more surprised than I am,\u201d Spencer said in his apartment, in Queens, on a rainy day. He sat at his dining-room table, with his wife, Angela, a speech-language pathologist in New York City public schools. She is pregnant with their second child. They met at McGill University, where she was studying voice and he was studying composition.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m interested in the musicality of the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s always making up songs from sounds,\u201d Angela added. \u201cA phone beeping, a bus going by.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even when his daughter was first born, he said, \u201cI was always treating her babblings as music.\u201d (He prefers not to disclose her name.)<\/p>\n
Spencer is thirty-five and barrel-chested, with three-day scruff on his smiling face. He does not, at a glance, appear to be a man to sing in falsetto. After grad school at McGill, he received a Ph.D. in music theory and composition from the City University of New York. His dissertation was titled \u201cA Multilevel Approach to the Analysis and Visualization of Timbral Brightness in Post-Tonal Music.\u201d (Obviously.) He\u2019s now a lecturer at Hunter College.<\/p>\n\n