Ms. Rachel husband Aron Accurso is a songwriter and pianist. Aron works as the Associate Music Director for Aladdin on Broadway.
Rachel Griffin Accurso, aka Ms. Rachel, is a famous YouTube content creator and an award-winning songwriter. She writes songs for young children and preschoolers.
The 41-year-old was a preschool teacher in New York City who became an overnight star after she started to make YouTube videos. The star is reaching out to children all over the world through her videos and making a major difference in their lives.
Ms. Rachel is the founder and CEO of Songs for Littles – Toddler Learning Videos. She created a YouTube channel @msrachel in February 2019 and began to upload videos for children. Her channel has gained over 2.95 million subscribers and her videos have attracted over 1.7 billion views to date.
The Youtuber attended New York University for higher education and attained a Master’s Degree in Music. She worked as a writer at We Have Apples for two years from 2015 to 2017.
Ms. Rachel falls on the list of famous married YouTubers like Elle Fowler.
Aron Accurso Is A Music Director
Ms. Rachel husband Aron Accurso is a talented music director and composer. Aron is a creative partner of Rachel Griffins at Songs for Littles.
Accurso is the Associate music director for Aladdin on Broadway. His other Broadway credits include Nice Work If You Can Get It, Sister Act, The Little Mermaid, and Billy Elliot.
Aron served as the Musical Director and Incidental Music Arranger for Up Her, a musical by Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. The musical premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2015.
Accurso’s musical The Dogs of Pripyat won the Jerry Bock Award and the Weston New Musical Award. The lyrics were written by Jill Abramovitz for the song that was presented by the National Alliance of Musical Theatre (NAMT).
Seeing Red with Joey Mazzarino won Theatre Resources Unlimited’s 2019 TRU Voices musical reading. Similarly, We Have Apples won a workshop with Theatre Now NY and was featured on CBS news and in the Washington Post.
Other writing credits of Accurso include You Are Enough: A Mental Health Suite, The Trail, and a children’s musical titled Strega Nona.
Accurso is a piano player as well. He played the instrument on The Bachelorette and The View for Aladdin, Regis and Kelly, Michael and Kelly, and the Wendy Williams Show. The musician was also featured on Smash.
The composer collaborates with his life partner, Ms. Rachel, and creates songs for her YouTube channel Songs for Littles. The couple started to create online content during the time of pandemic in 2020.
The musician serves as a creative partner of Rachel and writes children’s songs for their channel Songs for Littles. His tasks include writing and arranging music and skits, editing the episodes, and performing puppets.
Aron’s Education And Training Background
Accurso pursued higher education at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A) Degree with a major in Music Theory and Composition.
During his time at St. Olaf, Accurso sang in the St. Olaf Choir and The Limestones as contemporary a capella. Furthermore, he performed in theatre productions.
Accurso studied writing for the theatre in the BMI Workshop, a program highly regarded as a premiere training ground for emerging musical theatre composers. Aron won the Jerry Harrington Award for outstanding creative achievement in musical theatre.
The award-winning composer also trained as a Dramatist Guild Fellow at BMI. Furthermore, he worked as a writer at the Goodspeed Mercer Colony.
Accurso is originally from Denver, Colorado. He currently lives in New York City with his family.
Aron Accurso is active on Instagram under @aronaccurso with over 3.5K followers.
Their Married Life
Rachel Griffin married Aron Accurso on July 23, 2016. The Accurso couple has been together for more than a decade.
The Zola wedding registry page has a record of Rachel and Aron with their marriage date of July 23, 2016.
The Youtube star wished her life partner a happy Valentine’s Day via her Instagram in 2021. She wrote that she is lucky to have been married to Aron. Furthermore, she wrote that they have been together for 10 or 11 years and joked that she has to ask Aron about the exact year they met.
Rachel hails from Springvale, Maine. She later moved to New York City to pursue her career in music. She met her future husband while working in a musical at a studio.
One of the earliest photos shared by Rachel with Aron was on March 29, 2015, via her Instagram. She was at a theatre with Griffin watching a Broadway musical titled Something Rotten.
Ms. Rachel Griffin Accurso is a social media sensation with a huge. She is active on Instagram under @msrachelforlittles where she has a fan following of over 575K.
They Have Two Children Together
Ms Rachel kids include a son and a newly-born baby with her partner, Aron Accurso. The Accurso couple became parents three years into their marriage.
Rachel Griffin son Thomas is her first child born in 2019. She welcomed baby number two in 2022.
As of January 2023, Thomas is four years old and her second child is 20 months old. Rachel shared the information during her interview with Parents magazine.
Rachel shared that she has a lot of fun with her children. She recently said in the media that she spent her weekend marching around the kitchen with her children like dinosaurs, blowing pretend bubbles of sticky bubble gums, and taking breaks to watch shows on Songs for Little.
Son Thomas Johnson
Thomas was diagnosed with a speech delay. Rachel said in an interview that her son utter his first word when he was 2 years and 8 months old.
The social media star stated that her child inspired her to create Songs for Little. She revealed that her son had a speech delay and she was looking for some ways to help him.
At that moment, she thought it would be great if there was a show for toddlers that encouraged speech. A show that is slow-paced, interactive, and taught by a real person. However, she couldn’t find such a show and there and then, decided to create one.
Not only does she makes quality videos to entertain and educate child, but the YouTube star also shares her own personal experience with parents who admire her for her work.
The YouTuber acknowledges the fact that it is hard to raise a child. However, as a working parent, managing time to work allows her to refresh and feel energized when she comes back to look after her kids.