{"id":26425,"date":"2018-11-30T06:11:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=26425"},"modified":"2018-11-30T06:12:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:12:17","slug":"rehya-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/rehya-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Best New Christmas Music from Rehya Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rehya Stevens\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-1-230x230.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-1-365x365.jpg 365w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The strategy many emerging artists tend to take with <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> music is to just Bing it up and release a sing of <em>White <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe, it showcases their talent and it is known.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also boring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rehyastevens.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rehya Stevens<\/strong><\/a> is not one to take the path of least resistance.<\/p>\n<p>In her new album <em>Celebrate<\/em> Rehya has jumped into the deep end of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> pool with songs that are all original. The album is warm, bold and festive. Take a listen:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-26425-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/Gloria.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/Gloria.mp3\">https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/Gloria.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The entire album is well orchestrated, simple and directly <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> &#8212; a great listen on a snowy December evening by the tree.<\/p>\n<p>Rehya&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album touches all the bases. From sacred to secular, from joyous to reflective &#8212; it is all there.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z-UMnORdKZA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strategy many emerging artists tend to take with Christmas music is to just Bing it up and release a sing of White Christmas. It&#8217;s safe, it showcases their talent and it is known. It&#8217;s also boring. Rehya Stevens is not one to take the path of least resistance. 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