Jennifer Hudson Relives Reunion With Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande

Mariah Carey had a really particular vacation present for her followers attending her Merry Christmas One and All! live performance on Saturday, December 9, in New York City: a shock reunion on stage with Jennifer Hudson and Ariana Grande. After singing “Oh Santa!” collectively for Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special in December 2020, they carried out the tune stay for the primary time.

“This is a season full of surprises, y’all,” Hudson, 42, mentioned on The Jennifer Hudson Show on Tuesday, December 12. “Miss Mariah Carey, she’s always coming up with big great ideas. And she came up with the idea that her Christmas angels, which is Ariana Grande and myself, be a surprise for her Madison Square Garden performance.”

Carey, 54, initially recorded the tune for her 2010 album, Merry Christmas II You. For the “Oh Santa!” tenth anniversary in 2020, Carey rerecorded and rereleased the tune as a brand new remix that includes Hudson and Grande, 30. The new model served because the lead single from Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special soundtrack album.

“Nobody knew we were coming,” the discuss present host continued on Tuesday. “It was so fun, it was like a reunion for all of us… It felt like being with family. It felt like Christmas!”

Hudson additionally proudly displayed the pearl necklace she and Grande had been gifted by Carey, and added, “The crowd, when I say they went crazy — I’m still getting tags on Instagram from that performance.”

Hudson shared a snippet on Instagram of her on stage with Carey and Grande. “The Queen of Christmas” additionally posted a photograph of their efficiency with the caption, “Grateful to have the gorgeous and talented, the Christmas angels @arianagrande @iamjhudjoin me on stage tonight @thegarden for our song ‘Oh Santa! (Remix)’.”

Carey beforehand appeared on The Jennifer Hudson Show in November, and she revealed that her private favourite vacation tune will not be her personal bestselling 1994 hit, “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

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“I have to say, my favorite all-time Christmas song is Nat King Cole‘s version of ‘[The] Christmas Song,’” Carey advised Hudson.

The five-time Grammy winner added that she decorates her house with a big gold-themed tree together with a smaller tree harking back to A Charlie Brown Christmas.

When requested to call her favourite vacation motion pictures, Carey mentioned, “I love Elf. I like Miracle on 34th Street, the original one.”

Carey could be very severe about “the most wonderful time of the year,” and as she celebrates the vacations, she has a agency requirement for her house.

“I don’t let anybody listen to anything but Christmas music when I’m celebrating Christmas,” Carey advised Hudson.