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This holiday season is one that Jay Wheeler and Zhamira Zambrano will cherish forever.
The couple welcomed their first child together, daughter Aiunii, in September, and celebrated their first year of marriage on Dec. 2. Now, as a gift ahead of the most wonderful time of year, they are exclusively premiering the music video for their new Christmas song “Santa” on TODAY.com.
The song is a melancholic tune about missing someone on Christmas and hoping to get them back. The accompanying visual is a timeless concept, with Wheeler and Zambrano elegantly dressed as they belt out the emotional lyrics on stage, apart and then together. They’re also accompanied by dancers dressed in festive attire.
“When people create a great Christmas song, it lasts forever,” Wheeler tells TODAY.com in Spanish about the song’s inspiration. “So I told my wife, let’s make a Christmas song together so that every Christmas, people will play it when they are sad. And because we make sad songs, it had to be a sad Christmas song.”
“Santa” marks the pair’s third collaboration following their hits “Dicelo” and “Extrañandote.”
Zambrano adds that they opted for a different take on a holiday tune, deciding to look at the “desamor,” or heartbreak that many people experience during this time of year. “It’s a bittersweet song,” she says, adding she hopes their fans embrace it as much as they have their past collaborations.
The couple, who have yet to show their daughter’s face on social media, didn’t include Aiunii in the music video — but they already have an idea of when they might.
“We thought about including our daughter, but I want to include her in another song I have,” Wheeler says.
The pair is excited to celebrate their baby girl’s first Christmas together and host their first holidays at their new home. Wheeler shares that he made sure to put up Christmas lights specifically for his daughter.
They’re also looking forward to new and old traditions as a family of three.
“My parents would always make us believe in El Niño Jesús and Santa, that they would come at 12 and deliver the gifts,” Zambrano says. “I always thought that was so much fun. When I found out that it wasn’t real, I was really sad because I feel like I kind of lost a little bit of that magic of Christmas. But now I get to live it all over again with my baby, and have a couple of years of making magic for her every year.”
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For Wheeler, he wants to make sure his daughter’s first Christmas is special and memorable. “So when she’s older and sees photos, she says, ‘You did this for me?’ And I can say, ‘Yes, because it was your first Christmas.’”
Calling each other “mejores amigos,” Wheeler says parenthood has strengthened their relationship because “nos amamos bonitos,” adding in Spanish: “I make sure she’s OK, she makes sure I’m OK… We are always adapting to every change that comes our way.”
Zambrano adds, “We are more of a team now that we have the baby, because we have to work together in order to get everything running. Right now, we’re doing a bunch of things, but since we’re doing it together, it’s a bit easier. I feel like it has helped us grow as a couple, as a team, and I just think she makes us stronger.”
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Fans can expect more music from the twosome, as they teased something in the works.
“We love making music together,” Zambrano says. “We have a couple of songs already recorded, but we have something else in the works for that, maybe another project later on. But for now, I hope everyone enjoys this one that we did with so much love.”
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