My new Christmas song!

So excited by the big news! New for Christmas 2018, my first Christmas song – “Kindness for Christmas”!  Written by the team of Funkee Boy and, me, Jesse Prex, the track features vocals by the soulful Timmy Maia, with keyboards by Funkee Boy,

As I thought about Christmas songs, “Kindness for Christmas” kept reverberating in my head, over and over. After working a bunch of scenarios about what “kindness for Christmas” could mean, I finally came up with a concept I was happy with!

The process for me is a little intense, because it all starts with a story. And, for me, that story has to be meaningful, have something special and hopefully uplifting in it. I could fill a book with the rejected stories, but so many of them came off preachy, or bitchy, or trivial.

I finally started pulling some of the better thoughts together, and a story about a good-hearted person with a love for Christmas, a big heart, and not a lot of cash came together. Of course – even though they didn’t have much, they would want to share with the world the blessings of kindness!

I originally penned it as “Santa Bring Us Kindness for Christmas.” I was thinking of some the great work pop groups such as NSYNC did with fun. “peppy” Christmas songs, and took that direction. (I was having fun with it mentally – one of the original verses had them shopping in a packed mall with “…My  reindeer headgear makes strangers laugh.” Hey, it’s no “Little Drummer Boy,”, but I enjoyed the visual!)

I’m so grateful for my genius collaborator, Funkee Boy! I shipped it off to him and he loved the general concept, but, he wanted to shift it to a more sophisticated R and B piece, in line with the Christmas CD he was putting together.

Needless to say, I love where he went with it, and, we hope you love it, too! It’s featured on his new Christmas CD, “Underneath the Mistletoe,” available at CD Baby, iTunes, and Amazon!