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Best known for her unique interpretations of popular songs, operatic arias and hymns, singer Katherine Jenkins will embrace a new genre this fall when the multi-million selling mezzo-soprano releases her first Christmas album, This is Christmas. This will be the ninth studio album from Jenkins and features 10 newly recorded holiday classics. For this upcoming collection, Jenkins unique vocals can be heard singing traditional holiday tunes from around the world as well as a number of contemporary favorites including "Away In A Manger, " "Hark The Herald Angels Sing, " "Deck The Halls, " and "Come What May, " featuring Placido Domingo. "These holiday songs bring back such wonderful memories for me of times spent with family and loved ones, " says Jenkins.
About the Author
Katherine Jenkins is the author of the popular blog Lessons from the Monk I Married. In 2010, she wrote a lesson every single day on her blog for 365 days and in 2011 she wrote weekly lessons. Currently she has over 58,000 visitors to her blog (1,000 per week). Her inspiring lessons are on topics such as love, fear, yoga, meditation, patience, procrastination, book writing, peace, happiness, stress and many other topics. Her book, by the same title as her blog, is a memoir about her 15-year journey with her husband, a former Korean Buddhist monk. Katherine spent over eight years in South Korea, where she met her husband in 1996, before moving back to the United States. They now live in Seattle, Washington.
