NEW YORK (Classic Media/ www.classicmedia.tv/holiday-art) - Just in time for the holidays, AOL
Music will exclusively premiere the new video from Grammy Award-winning artists
Destiny's Child for their version of the holiday classic "Rudolph The Red- Nosed Reindeer." The video transports the supergroup to the North Pole and animates them with the same stop-motion techniques used in Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, the highest rated holiday special in television history.
Destiny's Child recorded the single for an exclusive bonus CD included within the special 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition Rudolph DVD currently in stores from Classic Media and Sony Wonder.
This premiere is part of the popular AOL Music First View program, which regularly debuts hotly anticipated new videos before they air anywhere else, including television.
The premiere of Destiny's Child's video for "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" will be available exclusively for 24 hours at https://www.aolmusic.com beginning Thursday, December 9th at 12:01 AM, (EST).
Toronto-based Head Gear Animation was tapped to produce the music video and Cannes Palme d'Or-winning director Jesse Rosensweet helmed the project. The video opens with Destiny's Child in session at North Pole Studios where they are laying down the vocal tracks for "Rudolph." The camera tracks the superstars as they snowboard, meet "the most famous reindeer of all" and get down with Rudolph and other woodland creatures in a slammin' dance break.
Since 1964, more than 100 million families have tuned in annually to watch the most famous reindeer of all in the holiday television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The title song is one of the most popular holiday tunes of all time. Destiny's Child joins the ranks of some of the best loved recording artists in history, including Gene Autry, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, The Supremes and Harry Connick Jr. who have covered the 1949 hit by Johnny Marks.
Formed in Houston in 1990, Destiny's Child has become one of the best- selling female pop groups of all time, with worldwide sales totaling more than 30 million albums and singles. Led by founding members Beyonce Knowles and Kelly Rowland, Destiny's Child broke onto the music scene in late 1997, with the third permanent member, Michelle Williams, joining the group in February 2000.
The group created the template for contemporary soul-pop music with an unbroken string of gold, platinum and multi-platinum recordings beginning with 1998's smash single, "No No No," through groundbreaking albums like 1999's The Writing's On The Wall and 2001's Survivor. Destiny's Child sixth album Destiny Fulfilled was released on November 16. Destiny's Child has been the recipient of numerous awards including multiple Grammys and NAACP Image Awards.
