Matt Belsante White Christmas CD

On his 2008 holiday album, WHITE CHRISTMAS, young crooner Matt Belsante takes on Yuletide classics, backed by a full orchestra. Following the easy-going jazz/pop path worn by Harry Connick Jr. and Michael Buble, Belsante lends his clear, confident voice to time-honored winter-themed tunes such as "Sleigh Ride" and "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm."

Every once in awhile there comes along a singer who reminds you of something familiar yet something so new that it leaves you smiling; a young crooner’s voice that wraps around you like a warm coat on a cold winters day. Matt Belsante is that rare kind of artist who has something new to offer. The Naperville, Illinois native Matt began playing tenor sax in 6th grade and continued to perform in middle and high school jazz bands. “I used to listen to Sinatra with my grandfather when I was little and my dad always had it in the car as well. At home I listened mostly to instrumental stuff and mostly sax players but big band as well and the major vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald,” says Belsante. He started to sing in the jazz choir in high school during his junior year while continuing to play sax in the band. In his senior year he won the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award for both vocal jazz and instrumental jazz (the first student at his school to win both). After high ...