#Carrie underwood my gift tv#

Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Traditional)ģ. My Gift is set to be released on vinyl October 30.ġ. The streamer will premiere the event this holiday season.įans can purchase new merchandise bundles in the Official My Gift store and listen to the album HERE. The Max Original special will be executive produced by Gary Goetzman and Tom Hanks for Playtone, along with Underwood and her manager, Ann Edelblute. She will appear with a live orchestra and choir, performing a combination of beloved traditional favorites, as well as new original material from My Gift. It was recently announced that Carrie is also set to star in an all-new holiday special, which will be available exclusively on HBO Max. My Gift is mixed by a 14-time GRAMMY® Award-winning mixer, Serban Ghenea. My Gift features a world-class orchestra, led by the pre-eminent arranger, composer, and conductor David Campbell, whose many credits include iconic recordings by artists including Linda Ronstadt, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Josh Groban, and his son Beck. He has written and produced some of the best-selling and highest-charting tracks of the past 15 years for such artists as Adele, Celine Dion, Keith Urban, and P!nk, as well as the worldwide smash The Greatest Showman soundtrack. GRAMMY® Award-winning producer, mixer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Greg Wells produced and arranged the album. In addition to a very special appearance by Underwood’s 5-year-old son, Isaiah Fisher, on the holiday classic that inspired the album title, “Little Drummer Boy,” My Gift also features her first collaboration with Emmy, GRAMMY®, Oscar, and Tony Award-winner John Legend, on the original track, “Hallelujah,” written by Legend and Toby Gad (“All of Me”). Two of the original songs are written by Underwood, frequent collaborator Brett James (“Jesus, Take the Wheel,” “Something In The Water”), and her Cry Pretty co-producer, David Garcia. My Gift features a combination of beloved traditional favorites celebrating the spiritual nature of the holiday, as well as several new originals. My Gift also debuted #1 on the UK country chart (her fifth #1 on the chart) and #1 on the Canadian country chart. My Gift marks the eighth straight album Carrie has debuted #1 on the Billboard Country chart. It was a great experience and I definitely wouldn’t be here without that.Seven-time GRAMMY® Award winner Carrie Underwood’s first-ever Christmas album, My Gift, debuts #1 on the Billboard Country, Christian and Holiday charts this week. “I got so lucky to work with some of the best people - a lot of whom I still work with today. It was crazy and exciting, but I think I did a pretty good job of saying, ‘OK, I just want to learn everything I can learn.’ “I did have plans and I went and tried out for American Idol and it was just, whoosh. Carrie Underwood is joined by fellow contestants onstage during the American Idol Finale: Results Show held at the Kodak Theatre on in Hollywood.

To take that chance … it was obviously a course-changer for my life and one of the best things that ever happened to me.

#Carrie underwood my gift tv#

I’m a thinker and a planner, and to just go put yourself on TV in front of millions of people, that was very big for me.

“It’s the kind of thing that somebody like me just wouldn’t do. Looking back on that experience, do you remember having doubts about trying out? It’s been 15 years since you won American Idol. That’s what we were trying to keep in mind when we were making it.” I do want these songs that in 10 years people can say, ‘Oh, I remember that,’ or, ‘I grew up listening to that.’ I want people to be able to say that someday. “When we were talking about what this album was going to be and I was talking to my producer Greg Wells … I told him, ‘I want that warm hug, you know?’ I want that thing that I grew up listening to that meant so much to me. Were you conscious of the fact that this is a record that will be played in people’s homes for many years to come around Christmastime?

I love the fact that there were ‘no rules’ to making a Christmas album.” We can make another (Christmas album) or add to the one I have. At the end of the day, I can always record more if we want to. But I always said that even if we didn’t write any songs there are so many amazing Christmas songs to choose from. “So we sat down and tried to write some songs to see if we could add to that. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.