New Christmas Song: Jingle Maria

In America we used to start the Christmas Season the day after Thanksgiving, plus stores were actually closed on the Holidays. That's how it used to be! Fast forward to today. Christmas Music was playing on Thanksgiving on some radio stations, stores were opening at 10PM instead of the next morning for early deals, and cities already had their decorations up. Yes, retailers have a tendency to keep pushing the envelope earlier and earlier to get us in the mood for Christmas and Shopping.

Christmas Music is a big part of the Holiday Season. All those favorite songs played from Thanksgiving until Christmas helps set our collective mood, and we are very blessed to have several wonderful Singers and Songwriters on Squidoo including Lisa Marie Gabriel.

I love Lisa's songs, and am patiently (NOT) waiting for Amazon to release her new CD even though it doesn't include my favorite song, Jingle Maria. This article of hers tells the story of how she came to record Jingle Maria -A Happy Song For Christmas.


Jingle Maria is about a little girl who is as excited as she can be about the real meaning of Christmas. It was because of this article that I found her other songs, and a new favorite Singer.

I had not remembered the intro, or very much from the article except the beat of the song and how it made me feel. In fact until I went and re-read everything I didn't even realize the religious part of it. The song just made me feel happy...that's all I remembered. That's all I needed to know, but not everyone is like me and you will learn a lot about Lisa and how she composed Jingle Maria from her article.

I asked Lisa how she writes her songs and this is what she said:

"Sometimes life moves me in some way and something inside wants to come out. What takes the most time is the techie stuff - arranging, recording and mixing. The song is a gift from God - or Spirit if you like. I think the hardest thing for a songwriter to do is just let it come out - not get in the way. You can always refine it later."

Finding jewels on Squidoo is fun, and I am so glad I found Lisa's articles! I hope you like her song Jingle Maria, and you will find more of her music in other articles she wrote.

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