In 2024, Sarah Reeves scored a big hit with “More Than Enough” and now she’s got a holiday hit with her version of “Holly Jolly Christmas,” from her Christmas album More the Merrier. She tells ABC Audio that her record company picked the song as a single, but she loves it.
“It is one of my favorites off of the album. You know, it’s just a classic. It’s fun,” she says. “I wanted to do kind of like my own jazzy, traditional take on it. And I loved recording this album. I did it in Nashville with a live jazz band and it was one of my favorite experiences, probably my favorite project I’ve ever done.”
Sarah’s family lives in Nashville, but she’ll be spending Christmas in Texas with her new husband, director Bill McAdams. The two met when she landed a part in his film God’s Here, now streaming on Prime Video and other platforms.
“His sister and her family lives like ten minutes down the road,” she says of her new Texas surroundings. “So we’ll probably do like a Christmas dinner at our house or something.” She laughs. “I’m trying to make our house all cute. You know, it’s just like my my new little project right now.”
But for Sarah, the best gift this year is that she and her husband found each other.
“We’ve both been married before. We’ve both been divorced, have both been through some pretty hard traumas in our life,” she explains. “And so it just feels like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe that we’re actually…like, we’ve never had this much happiness and joy in our lives.'”
She laughs, “Like, sometimes we’ll just look at each other and cry!”
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