Zize and The Golden Touch were Maria Del Rey's early recordings before she embarked on a successful career as a international family recording artist in the early 1990s. Presently ChildGood Magazine founder Maria Del Rey (MDR) is an award-winning family media producer and publisher of family media. Del Rey has released over 50-plus international magazine specials, online seminars, music albums, parenting video episodes and educational book products in multiple languages in the international family media market. She has also collaborated on hundreds of advertising campaigns for the international bilingual marketplace with fortune 100 companies. MDR is a Latin Grammy Award Nominated producer, a four-time Parents Choice Gold, Silver, Honorable Award Winner, a recipient of the Carnegie Centennial-New York Public Library Grant Award and the National Parenting Publications Gold Award.

Her most recent creation, ChildGood Magazine, The Journal for Creative Families, has been featured on Apple’s ‘Whats Hot List’ for parenting magazine apps (Newsstand) for over 170-consecutive weeks. MDR was invited to represent the children of the Americas as a delegate-performer at the United Nations Global Peace Initiative for Women in Geneva, Switzerland. Del Rey has also lectured at numerous universities and educational conferences. She was named one of the 50 Top Role Models in the state of Pennsylvania by The Pennsylvania Commission for Women.