UMI – This Christmas [Video]
Glowing and intimate, UMI’s take on “This Christmas” feels less like a playlist placement and more like a home movie with studio polish.
Recorded for Apple Music’s “Carols Covered” series, her version leans into soft R&B warmth and stacked harmonies, pulling the Donny Hathaway classic into that dreamy, heart-on-sleeve space she lives in so well. In the Apple Music notes she talks about covering Christmas songs with her sister and sending them to family as gifts, and you can hear that memory in the way she stretches the runs and belts the hook — not just festive, but personal, like she’s inviting you into the living room while the tree lights are still the only thing on.
