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You’ll find Alicia Keys’ new record, ‘Santa Baby,’ winking under the mistletoe
By: Rachel Martin | Phil Harrell | NPR
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Elsewhere on the record she covers Christmas staple Vince Guaraldi, explaining that her cover of “Christmas Time Is Here” is “my mixture of young Michael Jackson, meets Quincy Jones, meets Vince Guaraldi,” the technically challenging “Ave Maria,” John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” among other winter essentials.
Keys also penned a couple of originals for the album, which she wrote to remind listeners that “love, and this good energy that I think we all call towards us and want for the holidays, is something we can have all year-round.”
She spoke to Rachel Martin about finding her own path through well-worn classics and the approach she took on her own additions to the holiday canon.
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