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The beluga whale who inspired children’s entertainer Raffi’s 1979 song “Baby Beluga” died on Monday at the Vancouver Aquarium. She was 46. Kavna was the oldest captive beluga in North America.

When one thinks of baby beluga whales and music, one surely thinks first of Raffi. The song and the album "Baby Beluga" are 45 years old now, but any Instagram or TikTok video of the beluga whales at ...

I've been gaga for beluga whales ever since I was a little kid (along with probably every other 80s/90s kid who grew up listening to Raffi's "Baby Beluga" song). Turns out, though, baby belugas don't ...

Raffi Cavoukian, better known simply as Raffi, entertaining children after a concert in Los Angeles in 1989. (Paul Harris / Getty Images) It was date night for me and my husband, the first since our ...

Shedd Aquarium’s baby beluga now has a name: Opus. It’s a musical term — meaning a set of compositions — that honors his father Beethoven and nods to the high-pitched songs that have led to these ...