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Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actor/singer/songwriter Darren Criss, popular in Japan for his work on the drama "Glee," releases his debut holiday album on DECCA! Produced by Ron Fair, multiple Grammy(R) nominee and producer of numerous Grammy-winning hits. Showcasing Darren's encyclopedic musical knowledge, the wildly diverse collection of songs includes big band standards, mid-century musical numbers, contemporary folk-pop ballads, and more. Recorded at Nashville's Faircraft Studios in 2020, the 12-song set features some of the city's most celebrated artists. Pop star Adam Lambert joins on the wonderfully jazzy "(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With the Bag," while Evan Rachel Wood contributes on the classic "Somewhere in My Memory" and the album's only original song, "Drunk on Christmas. The original song "Drunk on Christmas" features the wildly talented chart-topping country artist Rainey Wilson. A fusion of country and cocktail jazz, "Drunk on Christmas" offers a glimpse into Darren's sensibilities as a songwriter. Chris comments, "I knew that if we were going to make a Christmas album, it couldn't just be a collection of songs that everyone knows.""I wanted it to be a journey that would not only have personal significance to my life, but would also reintroduce people to songs they had never heard before, songs they thought they knew but had never looked at in a different way. After making a variety of choices, the album is definitely "my kind of Christmas," as the name implies." The result is a new and essential addition to the holiday music canon. It is thrilling, unpredictable, and wrapped in a sense of timeless Christmas magic.