Annie Lennox - A Christmas Cornucopia

Of course you didn't expect an Annie Lennox "holiday" album to be anything ordinary, did you? A Christmas Cornucopia, arriving November 16 via new label Decca, promises to live up to what Lennox calls her "labor of love", an album that begins a new stage in her career and allows her "to pursue my passion in my own individual way." Led by the lone self-penned track "Universal Child", Cornucopia delivers eleven more traditional songs and carols of the season but most with a unique twist: the addition of The African Childrens Choir and the goal of imparting "simply a human message" along with the religious themes.

"When I was seven or eight years old I used to sing in choirs in my home town," Lennox says. "We always used to sing these traditional Christmas carols that I think are exquisitely beautiful. And some of these carols have a kind of African flavor about them." She adds, "It seems to work well, that you could put something so traditional as English Christmas carols and that you could...fuse them with something African...and it works, it's amazing." All that's needed, she says, are "fresh ears and an open mind." Watch the video on the making of A Christmas Cornucopia after the jump.

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Annie Lennox - A Christmas Cornucopia Sampler

Annie Lennox - "Universal Child" (from the album A Christmas Cornucopia)