David Foster and Katharine McPhee are placing an finish to their 17-year-long hiatus from releasing new music collectively.
On Friday, the married couple dropped their first new musical providing, a rendition of the favored vacation anthem “Jingle Bell Rock”.
However wait, there’s extra.
The festive observe serves because the lead single on their upcoming, first-ever joint Christmas album. Merely titled Christmas Songs, the album will likely be out there digitally on Nov. 25 with bodily copies out there starting Dec. 2.
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Though the brand new album marks Foster’s first Christmas album as a singer, the 16-time Grammy-winning producer is not any stranger to the Christmas music scene. The legendary Canadian musician has produced a number of the biggest vacation songs of all time with famend artists together with Michael Bublé, Celine Dion, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, Rod Stewart and Mary J Blige.
“We thought it may be time to do it once more!,” Foster mentioned of recording new music with McPhee after 17 years. “Kat has probably the most stunning voice and she or he doesn’t know find out how to ship lower than an ideal vocal each time!
“If you make Christmas music, you actually get a free move to do no matter you like-the freedom for me as a producer was a lot enjoyable – no stress,” he added.
McPhee admitted that she hasn’t “been specializing in being a recording artist, however then I married the very best file producer and the deal was sealed!
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“We began this course of out in our front room for enjoyable,” she defined, “after which it changed into a full-fledged, ‘Let’s do that for actual.’ David’s historical past with Christmas albums is known – it grew to become a labour of affection for him.”
McPhee additionally shared her pleasure over the couple’s festive undertaking on social media, writing, “Tremendous excited I acquired to file with my finest buddy once more.
“First time was after I was simply off of ‘American Idol’ 17 years in the past,” she recalled, “and the great half was he needed to do all of the work. I simply listened to who I deem as the best possible and the remainder was easy!”
Christmas Songs marks McPhee’s second vacation undertaking. She beforehand launched her solo album Christmas is the Time to Say I Love You in 2010. The singer additionally labored with Foster musically again within the mid 2000s after her time on “American Idol” season 5, which, on the time, noticed her now-husband cease by throughout her rehearsals to assist her observe for her efficiency of Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing”, penned by Foster.