Alicia Keys Set to Host ‘Vacation Masquerade Ball’ on Apple Music – Billboard

Apple Music introduced Friday (Dec. 16) that Alicia Keys is bringing her first-ever Holiday Masquerade Ball to the streaming service later this month.

A trailer for the digital occasion — which is able to stream Wednesday (Dec. 21) — reveals the famous person performing a soulful cowl of “Please Come Residence for Christmas” on the Apple Music Dwell stage. “Bells can be ringing unhappy unhappy information/ Oh, what a Christmas to have the blues/ My child is gone and I’ve no associates/ To want me greetings as soon as once more/ Choirs be singing ‘Silent Night time’/ Christmas carols by the candlelight,” she sings whereas pairing a bejeweled masks fairly actually dripping in crystals with a smooth, tuxedo-inspired pantsuit.

With an help from TikTok, the Masquerade Ball will function music from Keys’ new vacation album, Santa Child, and embody appearances by JVKE and Jon Batiste.

“That is THEE Vacation occasion of the season,” Keys stated in an announcement. “I’m grateful to Apple Music and TikTok for serving to me create a magic second to showcase my first vacation album, in such a particular approach, for everybody around the globe.”

Upon its November launch solely on Apple Music and the iTunes Retailer, Santa Child debuted within the prime 20 on Billboard‘s High Vacation Albums chart and has up to now spent 5 weeks and relying on the tally. The studio set — a follow-up to 2021’s KEYS — was preceded by unique vacation providing and lead single “December Back 2 June.”

Keys additionally stopped by Billboard‘s Pop Shop Podcast earlier this month to talk concerning the album, telling hosts Katie Atkinson and Keith Caufield, “It has a soulfulness, a rawness, it has that New York vitality in it too, nevertheless it simply looks like one thing you can play from prime to backside. And I recorded it like that; we recorded it very persistently over about seven days, and all of it actually feels cohesive and nice. And so I adore it. I believe now’s the time.”

Watch the trailer for Keys’ Vacation Masquerade Ball here.