Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Tony Bennet.Jesus Is The Reason For The Season, Kirk Franklin.I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, Joe Sample.What Christmas Means To Me, Stevie Wonder.It Must Have Been Ol’ Santa Claus, Harry Connick, Jr.I’ve Got My Love To Keep You Warm, Billie Holiday.Christmas Night In Harlem, Louis Armstrong.I Want To Come Home For Christmas, Marvin Gaye.What You Want For Christmas, K-Nock, Quad City DJ’s & The 69 Boyz.This Christmas (Hang All The Mistletoe), Macy Gray.Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Ledisi.

Let It Snow, Boyz II Men, Brian McKnight.

Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto, James Brown.

I’ll Be Home For Christmas, Will Downing.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Wynton Marsalis.

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Yolanda Adams.

Silent Night, Kirk Franklin & The Family.

Most of these are available on iTunes if you want to download them for a fantastical Soul Holiday Christmas Playlist of your own. If you’re a true Christmas music connoisseur, you’ll love this protracted list I whipped up just for MyBrownBaby (my playlist is way too long to reproduce here). I stretched a little in the list below, however, by putting a funky version by Macy Grey, who is one in a long line of singers who remade the classic version.) (Please note: Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” is an obvious tradition and should be on every Christmas music playlist ever known to man he most certainly is on all five of mine. Blige, plus some classic offerings by Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong that I copped on Spotify. this year, I added on songs from Justin Bieber (at the insistence of my girlpies!), Jason Mraz, Macy Gray, Musiq Soulchild and Tamia, CeeLo Green and Mary J. Old standbys include beautiful Christmas songs by Kirk Franklin, Whitney Houston, Dianne Reeves, Anita Baker, Brian McKnight and Harry Connick, Jr. It’s that serious.Įvery year, I add on a few more songs to our play list-some of them old treasures that I’ve discovered on iTunes, others new offerings I’ve heard on the radio and purchased at the store or online. Best believe, too, that when our feet are under the table at Christmas dinner-no matter whose table it is-our Christmas play list is bumping in the background. We start playing it religiously the day after Thanksgiving, and we pump up the volume big time when we’re decorating the tree, hanging lights outside, and wrapping presents. Like, with an almost fanatical zeal that’s wholly unnatural. Both of us absolutely stan for Christmas music. There’s a running joke between my son Mazi and I about who’s more Mr/Mrs Christmas around the MyBrownBaby household.

Tamia songs playlist