Carrie Underwood‘s My Gift album is out! The record includes a collaboration with her five-year-old son, Isaiah, whose sweet voice can be heard on “Little Drummer Boy.”
“(Isaiah) loves to sing,” Carried told the Associated Press. “He loves music. He definitely has that passion and I asked him, ‘Would you ever want to go in and sing with Mommy?’ He said, ‘Yes,'” Underwood said. “I told everybody, ‘This might not even work. This might be a terrible idea.’ … (And) he went in and he did such a great job. He was throwing his hands up in the air and was so excited and had all these cute 5-year-old emotions just pouring out of him.”
Isaiah’s performance earned the hearty approval of everyone, including Isaiah’s proud father, Mike Fisher.
“We were all just so excited,” Carrie recalled. “I was like, ‘I’m not going to send it to [Mike] right when I got it. I’m going to go home and we’re all going to listen to it in the car.’ That’s where I always listen to my stuff that I record. We went in the car and Isaiah got to hear himself back for the first time. It was just a great moment for all of us — sitting in my SUV listening to his sweet little voice.”
The American Idol alum previously admitted she was blown away by her oldest son’s talent.
“I was in the booth with him, and trying to get him to access all his little five-year-old emotions, which he can totally do on his own,” Carrie recalled on the Today Show, admitting that she might have been a bit of a “stage mom” throughout the day. “When I heard the song back with his sweet little voice on it, I was laughing and crying. Just so many emotions. I’m so proud of him.”
Carrie’s plans for My Gift had to be altered because of COVID-19, although she refused to entirely abandon the project.
“At the very beginning we weren’t wearing masks yet,” Carrie said. “After it all got shut down we said, ‘OK, we can do one of two things: Scrap it and maybe hope to do it later or we can push through.’ I feel like we had enough of the groundwork laid that I’m like, ‘Well what else am I going to do? Everybody else is in quarantine.’ We scaled everything back and just found new ways to do things. We couldn’t have some giant studio and a bunch of musicians in all the time and whatever.
“It ended up turning out great and it was good to not let this year be a complete de-railer,” she added. “We had our hurdles and we pushed through and we got to make this album, which was such a bright point for me in the year. It was something that I was excited to get up and go do. I was very blessed to have that going on.”
Purchase My Gift at CarrieUnderwoodOfficial.com.