A Latin Music Christmas with Arthur Hanlon

How does a white guy from Detroit end up playing Latin music?
Pianist Arthur Hanlon, one of the stars of the HBOMax concert
film Piano Y Mujer, talks about that and his relationship to
Motown in this week's conversation. We talk about the EP he
released before Christmas, A Holiday Christmas Piano, and the
roles Facebook and COVID played in making it happen. Along the
way, we also talk about earlier Christmas releases and how
Christmas music fits into Hanlon's big picture. 


This week, we also look at one of the bigger songs of the 2021
holiday season, "Merry Christmas" by Ed Sheeran and Elton John,
and the song that beat them to become number one on the British
pop charts at Christmas.


During our post-Christmas break, we went live on the IHeartRadio
platform and Amazon's podcast platform. Now, you can ask Alexa
and Siri to play the Twelve Songs of Christmas podcast and let
them pop it up on your voice-controlled personal assistant.