In Netflix’s new vacation rom-com “Christmas With You,” Aimee Garcia performs Angelina, a Latin pop star coping with profession burnout who’s tasked with writing the subsequent “All I Need For Christmas Is You”-level vacation music. Garcia steps into the position of the singing-dancing extraordinaire so seamlessly that one would possibly assume she’s really a pop star. So, is Aimee Garcia actually singing in “Christmas With You”?
The reply is sure, and Garcia, who just isn’t a skilled singer — imagine it or not — tells POPSUGAR taking up the position of a world pop sensation was “terrifying.” Whereas Garcia has some singing expertise after recording a music for a season 5 musical episode of Netflix’s “Lucifer,” the position of Angelina introduced a complete new problem.
“Netflix had supplied me this position in ‘Christmas With You’ due to the musical episode on ‘Lucifer,’ however I barely sang and danced [for that],” Garcia says. “And [I] could or could not have taken a shot of tequila within the sound sales space. I can’t verify nor deny.” Making issues much more intimidating, Garcia was on a time crunch to nail Angelina’s powerhouse vocals. “I solely had three days to study all of the songs . . . so once they mentioned, ‘You are going to play an expert singer with a number of Grammys and platinum data worldwide,’ I had a minor panic assault.”
Panic assault quantity two got here when Garcia heard which pop stars the producers behind “Christmas With You” had been hoping for Garcia to emulate. “[When I asked], ‘What sort of voice are you guys considering?’ And so they’re like, ‘Oh, you understand, Mariah Carey, Kelly Clarkson.’ ‘Oh, so one of the best singers of our technology?’ I mentioned, ‘Not gonna occur in three days.'”
In the long run, Garcia let go of the doubts in her head and as a substitute studied pop legends like Madonna and Britney Spears, whose legacies helped her attain an encouraging epiphany. “Their efficiency is plain, proper? They’re pop stars. They’re legends,” she says. “And I mentioned, ‘I am simply going to steer with my strengths of dancing efficiency and sing from the guts . . . And that is all I can do.”
In response to her costar Freddie Prinze Jr., who performs Miguel, the widowed music instructor who reignites Angelina’s ardour for writing, Garcia is not giving herself sufficient credit score. “Woman, they minimize a soundtrack and are releasing it . . . since you killed it so good,” Prinze Jr. says. “They do not try this until it is good!”
You’ll be able to watch Garcia showcase her pop-star-level singing and dancing expertise in “Christmas With You,” streaming now on Netflix.
