Ashanti

After coming to fame through chart-topping collaborations with Fat Joe and Ja Rule, Ashanti is among the most popular artists in contemporary R&B. This album finds her velvety voice full of Christmas spirit, with 10 renditions of various holiday classics. "Winter Wonderland" and "The Time of Year" are standouts.

If you're looking for spirit, you won't find it on Ashanti's joyless Christmas album.
Throughout the ten-track disc, she plods through both old and new holiday tunes -- from
the monotonous original "Christmas Time Again" to flat renditions of "The Christmas Song"
and "Joy to the World." The thin-piped songbird nearly redeems herself, however, on the
sentimental "Time of Year" and karaoke-worthy covers of Donny Hathaway's "Th... More >