Kenya Mighty is prepared with the kid classics at the Nest Music Conservatory. This time it’s the tune “Baby Shark.”

"It's popular with the kids,” Mighty said. “All the kids know that song."

Mighty teaches music at the after-school and summer camp in Olinville.

"A lot happens during music time,” Mighty said. “Bonding happens. Then, the engagement and joining up of music, hearts, feels, emotions."

The lifelong Bronxite started at Nest more than a decade ago when her band was going through a transitional period. She already had experience working at her family's day care, so volunteering as a music teacher was a natural fit.

"It was really the music, seeing the music on the, on the instruments on the walls just right there for you to touch whenever you want,” Mighty said. “I've never seen nothing like that.”

"I love, well, being around kids,” she continued. “I just love their truth telling. They really don't lie much."

Mighty returned more and more often, becoming a fixture at the center. Now she's there several times a week, leading music class, computer time and field trips. She aims to expose them to new things.

"It's the potential, the hidden potential,” she said. “Every, every person has something they are good at or something they love to do, but they've never tried it before."

A big priority for Mighty is teaching street safety. She encourages the kids to make noise when they're walking around the neighborhood for their own protection.

"Sometimes some of the blocks do have speed bumps,” she said. “But still these — a lot of drivers don't pay attention. They're not looking for kids."

Because Mighty is, for so many of these kids, a second mom.

"I'm always with the kids,” she said. “It's just a joy to me every day: waking up and seeing the joy on their face."

For bringing music and love to the Bronx's youngest, Kenya Mighty is our New Yorker of the Week.