--- title: Toddler Sings Darth Vader Star Wars Imperial March: Video description: Her dad caught it on the baby monitor canonical: https://time.com/4110423/toddler-sings-star-wars-imperial-march/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-12T18:49:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:56.499Z og:title: Toddler Sings the 'Star Wars' Imperial March All Alone in Her Crib og:description: Her dad caught it on the baby monitor og:url: https://time.com/4110423/toddler-sings-star-wars-imperial-march/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Toddler Sings the 'Star Wars' Imperial March All Alone in Her Crib twitter:description: Her dad caught it on the baby monitor twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Toddler Sings the _Star Wars_ Imperial March All Alone in Her Crib ## Video: Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer [Watch (HLS stream): Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/UyGxWpXw.m3u8) (2:35)  _Published 2015-10-20. Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 12, 2015 6:49 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 12, 2015 6:49 PM UTC Just about everybody is getting pumped for the upcoming release of [_Star Wars: The Force Awakens_](http://time.com/4086077/star-wars-the-force-awakens-supercut-trailers-footage/). That includes toddlers. Jonathan Liu recently watched _Star Wars_ with his kids — and his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter _really_ seemed to enjoy it. In particular, she really connected with Darth Vader. In a blog post on GeekDad, Liu [says](http://geekdad.com/2015/11/star-wars-toddler/) that when Darth Vader first appeared on screen, “she started mimicking the sound of his breathing.” And when the Imperial March started playing, she got up and danced. Soon enough, he caught her on her baby monitor singing the tune to herself after a nap: Now she just needs to get [this 7-year-old cellist](http://time.com/4101573/watch-this-adorably-tiny-darth-vader-play-the-imperial-march-on-a-cello/) to accompany her. _Read next:_ [_Leia Is No Longer Called ‘Princess’ in_ ](http://time.com/4109339/princess-leia-force-awakens/)[Star Wars: The Force Awakens](http://time.com/4109339/princess-leia-force-awakens/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4110423/toddler-sings-star-wars-imperial-march/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4110423/toddler-sings-star-wars-imperial-march/"},"headline":"Toddler Sings the Star Wars Imperial March All Alone in Her Crib","datePublished":"2015-11-12T18:49:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:56.499Z","description":"Her dad caught it on the baby monitor","url":"https://time.com/4110423/toddler-sings-star-wars-imperial-march/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4110423/toddler-sings-star-wars-imperial-march/","name":"Toddler Sings the Star Wars Imperial March All Alone in Her Crib"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer","description":"Star Wars The Force Awakens Trailer","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/UyGxWpXw/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-10-20T02:40:51.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/UyGxWpXw.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4110423/toddler-sings-star-wars-imperial-march/","duration":"PT2M35S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4110423/toddler-sings-star-wars-imperial-march/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```