''A Christmas Celebration'' is a studio album by American singer
Gladys Knight
Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944), known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer, actress and businesswoman. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner, Knight recorded hits through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her family group Gladys Kn ...
along with the
Saints Unified Voices
Saints Unified Voices (SUV) is a Grammy Award-winning American gospel music choir based in the Las Vegas Valley of Southern Nevada. The Saints Unified Voices Foundation, the governing organization of the choir, is directed by a board of directo ...
music choir. It was released by Many Roads Records on October 3, 2006 in the United States.
Critical reception
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ...
editor Alex Henderson found that "Knight presents a warm, welcoming set of
Yuletide
Yule, actually Yuletide ("Yule time") is a festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples, later undergoing Christianised reformulation resulting in the now better-known Christmastide. The earliest references to Yule are by way of indig ...
songs on 2006's ''A Christmas Celebration''. A showcase for the choir Saints Unified Voices (an ensemble assembled and directed by Knight), ''A Christmas Celebration'' finds the group backed by light,
Quiet Storm
Quiet storm is a radio format and genre of R&B, performed in a smooth, romantic, jazz-influenced style. It was named after the title song on Smokey Robinson's 1975 album ''A Quiet Storm''.
The radio format was pioneered in 1976 by Melvin Lin ...
-style arrangements on serene versions of both secular and religious classics."
Track listing
Charts
Release history
References
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Gladys Knight albums
2006 Christmas albums