Christina Perri recording Christmas album

Singer Christina Perri is fulfilling a childhood dream by recording a Christmas album.

The Jar of Hearts hitmaker is covering her favorite festive songs for A Very Merry Perri Christmas, and she also teamed up with her rocker brother Nick Perri to write an original track for the collection.

She says, "I've wanted to make A Very Merry Perri Christmas my whole life. Christmas is so big in my family, and I've been singing these songs since I was three years old.

"It is a collection of my all-time favorite Christmas songs, plus one original, Something About December, which my brother and I wrote about finding Christmas wherever you are in the world, because it lives in your heart."