For KEM’s What Christmas Means, the R&B singer wanted to cover several aspects of the season: the birth of Christ, for one, but also Christmas as a “romantic holiday.”
“You spend time cuddled up by the fire, warm and cozy with your wife or your husband,” KEM tells NPR’s David Greene. “You spend more time being intimate with shopping — we’re doing things with the kids, we’re together. There’s a lot of sincerity, a lot of warmth.”
The album highlight, “A Christmas Song for You,” is “a reflection of love that we cherish during the holidays.” But there was a time that KEM was less fortunate: Growing up in Detroit, he was separated from family, living on the streets and addicted to alcohol.
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