{"id":118993,"date":"2024-12-20T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T18:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/20\/elizabeth-chans-christmas-single-this-year-is-a-tribute-to-an-oscar-nominated-director\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T18:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T18:01:12","slug":"elizabeth-chans-christmas-single-this-year-is-a-tribute-to-an-oscar-nominated-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/20\/elizabeth-chans-christmas-single-this-year-is-a-tribute-to-an-oscar-nominated-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Chan’s Christmas single this year is a tribute to an Oscar-nominated director"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This year\u00a0Elizabeth Chan<\/strong>, the world’s only full-time Christmas music artist, has covered the modern holiday classic “Mary Did You Know<\/a>?” as a tribute to her late friend and mentor, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock<\/strong>, who died last year at age 53 of complications from cancer.<\/p>\n

“It’s a commemoration of a friendship that had an incredible impact on my life, on my career,” she tells ABC Audio. “He was the one that first saw that I could be who I am today. And it only takes one person. And for me, he was that one person.”<\/p>\n

Spurlock, best known for his Oscar-nominated documentary Supersize Me, <\/em>and Chan had been friends since 2011, when she answered an ad he’d placed online and ended up being featured in his show The Failure Club<\/em><\/a>, about people chasing their seemingly impossible dreams. That helped kick-start her career as a Christmas music artist.<\/p>\n

With “Mary Did You Know?” Elizabeth is fulfilling a request from Morgan.<\/p>\n

“The thing about me is that I’m known for my original music … but Morgan had always begged me. He always said, ‘Elizabeth, can you do a cover in your style? It would be so Chan-tastic,'” she laughs. “And I always told him no.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

But once he passed, she decided to record “Mary Did You Know?” It’s Morgan’s mother’s favorite holiday song, but there’s more to it than that.<\/p>\n

“I don’t really do covers lightly,” says Elizabeth. “It wasn’t like I was going to do the song because<\/em> it was Morgan’s mother’s favorite song. It was that it was so meaningful for me to cover the song for her<\/em>. And because when I listen back to the lyrics … it resonated with me in a different way that as a Christmas artist I was able to transform.”\u00a0<\/p>\n