{"id":480045,"date":"2018-12-19T07:44:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=771024"},"modified":"2018-12-19T07:44:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T14:44:11","slug":"see-john-legend-esperanza-spaldings-have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas-duet-on-the-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-john-legend-esperanza-spaldings-have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas-duet-on-the-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"See John Legend, Esperanza Spalding\u2019s \u2018Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas\u2019 Duet on \u2018The Voice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-6.00.35-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/john-legend\/\">John Legend<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/esperanza-spalding\/\" id=\"auto-tag_esperanza-spalding\" data-tag=\"esperanza-spalding\">Esperanza Spalding<\/a> performed their rendition of the yuletide classic \u201cHave Yourself a Merry Little Christmas\u201d on the live season finale of <em>The Voice<\/em> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>While Spalding provided backing vocals on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/john-legend-esperanza-spalding-have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas-737050\/\">the studio version of the duet<\/a>, the jazz singer played a more prominent role in the song\u2019s live performance of the song, with Spalding and Legend in lockstep harmony throughout the jolly take.<\/p>\n<p>The rendition appears on Legend\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/john-legend-stevie-wonder-esperanza-spalding-christmas-lp-731404\/\">first holiday record <em>A Legendary Christmas<\/em><\/a>, released October 26th. The Raphael Saadiq-produced LP featured Legend\u2019s take on Christmas classics like \u201cSilver Bells\u201d and \u201cThe Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)\u201d alongside original Xmas-inspired tracks like \u201cBring Me Love\u201d and \u201cWrap Me in Your Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Spalding\u2019s guest duet on \u201cHave Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,\u201d Legend also recruited Stevie Wonder and his harmonica skills for <em>A Legendary Christmas<\/em>\u2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EqHzjDBXSFI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cWhat Christmas Means to Me.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen also co-starred together in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/a-legendary-christmas-with-john-and-chrissy\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the NBC special <em>A Legendary Christmas With John and Chrissy<\/em><\/a> that aired in late-November.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/john-legend-esperanza-spaldings-have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas-duet-the-voice-771024\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Legend and Esperanza Spalding performed their rendition of the yuletide classic \u201cHave Yourself a Merry Little Christmas\u201d on the live season finale of The Voice Tuesday. While Spalding provided backing vocals on the studio version of the duet, the jazz singer played a more prominent role in the song\u2019s live performance of the song, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 14:40:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}