{"id":31827,"date":"2020-12-06T14:46:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T21:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=31827"},"modified":"2020-12-06T15:28:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T22:28:20","slug":"hello-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/hello-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of New Christmas Music: Hello Christmas by Dion and Amy Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2020 is bringing out the best in a lot of artists most of whom are, like the rest of us, having to work a little differently. Dion found a way to get together with Amy Grant (who has done a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> collaborations the past few years) and they make some sweet music together in this new <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> original song:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cQZmyxc7YKI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/merrypodcast.com\/podcast\/new-christmas-music\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/newmusic.jpg\" alt=\"New Christmas Music 2020 - Merry Little Podcast\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/newmusic.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/newmusic-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/newmusic-1030x129.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/newmusic-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Dion explained how \u201cHello Christmas\u201d came about, saying: \u201cI was talking with a friend about how the world this year can use a little life-giving <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> and harmony. I told him that <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> was the grace that changed my life and that I was looking forward to a shot of that this year. The next day, I got together with [co-writer] Mike [Aquilina] and I picked up the guitar, started singing and words started to flow. Later I was walking with my buddy [and co-writer] Steve Bottari and he started singing along \u2014 with some new words. The song just seemed to write itself, a gift to finish off this challenging year. From the start I heard Amy Grant\u2019s voice on it; she just sounds like <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> to me. I sent the track to her and she fell in <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> with it and added a beautiful counter-melody which makes it really sublime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What an awesome story &#8211; and it&#8217;s a catchy song. Perfect for 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2020 is bringing out the best in a lot of artists most of whom are, like the rest of us, having to work a little differently. 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