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Apple Music revealed Friday (Dec 16) that Alicia Keys is bringing her first-ever Holiday Masquerade Ball to the streaming solution later on this month.
A trailer for the online occasion– which will certainly stream Wednesday (Dec 21)– reveals the super star executing an emotional cover of “Please Come Home for Christmas” on the Apple Music Live phase. “Bells will be ringing sad sad news/ Oh, what a Christmas to have the blues/ My baby is gone and I have no friends/ To wish me greetings once again/ Choirs be singing ‘Silent Night’/ Christmas carols by the candlelight,” she sings while matching a bejeweled mask rather actually trickling in crystals with a smooth, tuxedo-inspired pantsuit.
With a help from TikTo k, the Masquerade Ball will certainly include songs from Keys’ brand-new vacation cd, Santa Baby, and also consist of looks by JVKE and alsoJon Batiste
“This is THEE Holiday party of the season,” Keys stated in a declaration. “I’m grateful to Apple Music and TikTok for helping me create a magic moment to showcase my first holiday album, in such a special way, for everyone around the world.”
Upon its November launch specifically on Apple Music and also the iTunes Store, Santa Baby debuted in the leading 20 on Billboard‘s Top Holiday Albums chart and has so far spent five weeks and counting on the tally. The studio set — a follow-up to 2021’ s KEYS— was come before by initial vacation offering and also lead solitary “December Back 2 June.”
Keys likewise visited Billboard‘s Pop Shop Podcast previously this month to talk concerning the cd, informing hosts Katie Atkinson and also Keith Caufield, “It has a soulfulness, a rawness, it has that New York energy in it too, but it just feels like something you could play from top to bottom. And I recorded it like that; we recorded it very consistently over about seven days, and it all really feels cohesive and great. And so I love it. I think now is the time.”
Watch the trailer for Keys’ Holiday Masquerade Ball here.
Source: billboard.com
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