A Motown Christmas Special Coming to NBC

A Motown Christmas co-hosts Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey Photo Credit: NBC

Music legend Smokey Robinson and Halle Bailey will help celebrate the holidays as hosts of NBC’s upcoming “A Motown Christmas” airing December 11 on NBC and streaming the next day on Peacock. The special will combine the sounds of Motor City and the spirit of Christmas for an unforgettable night of music and fun.

Joining Robinson and Bailey will be featured performers Ashanti, Andra Day, BeBe Winans, Jamie Foxx, JoJo, October London, mgk, Pentatonix, Jordin Sparks, and the cast of the Broadway show MJ The Musical.

Motown legends Gladys Knight, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, and the Temptations are also expected to perform. The 11-piece live band for A Motown Christmas will be led by Emmy Award-winning musical director Rickey Minor.

The songs performed will include “ABC,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” to “Dancing in the Streets” and “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”, “My Girl”, “Reach Out (I’ll be There)” and “Tears of a Clown”, plus “Stop (In the Name of Love),” “Superstition” and more.

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