Island Christmas
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| Studio album by Christine Anu | ||||
| Released | 7 November 2014 | |||
| Recorded | June/Junly 2014 | |||
| Genre | Christmas music | |||
| Label | Social Family Records | |||
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Island Christmas is the seventh studio and first Christmas album by ARIA Award winning, Torres Strait Islander singer Christine Anu. The album features The Voice season 2 finalist, Steve Clisby, actor and children’s entertainer, Jay Laga'aia and Anu's children Kuiam and Zipporah. The album was released on 7 November 2014.
At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015, the album was nominated for Best World Music Album. This was Anu's 17th ARIA Music Award nomination. The album lost out to The Gospel Album by Gurrumul.
In July 2014, Social Family Records announced Christine Anu had signed to their label. It was announced Anu would release a Christmas album in November. Christine Anu has had a long career singing Christmas song as a regular performer on Carols in the Domain, an appearance in Myer’s Spirit of Christmas and recording the theme song for Blinky Bill’s "White Christmas"
Upon release, Anu said a Christmas album was never something she considered but she did not take long to be 'coaxed around'. “I first thought people wouldn’t like mine and they might think ‘oh my God not another Christmas album’, but this isn’t your traditional Christmas album — there’s no mention of snow. Instead of snow you have colours.”
"Silent Night" includes a verse in her native indigenous language and "Island Christmas" is about Christmas Day in the Dreamtime.
“I wrote the title track when my kids and their friends and cousins were quite young – we love singing – and I’d always get them to sing along with me. So even though they’re now a lot older, the inclusion of their voices on the album is incredibly nostalgic for me – it’s what Christmas is all about, in creating and recalling special memories each year,” said Christine.
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