It is common knowledge that mothers and grandmothers sing lullabies to babies. It is a shared practice around the world and we all take it for granted, somehow. Yet, I wonder if this perception is grounded in contemporary real life experience or if it is channeled as a topos by the entertainment industry: we assume that mothers sing to their babies, but do they really do it? It is not uncommon to associate the practice of singing to stigma: often a person, a child or an adult