Jesuit missionary Jacques de Brébeuf worked with the Indigenous Huron people for years and wanted to give the people a carol of their own, in their own language.

Who is this King Wenceslas fella? What makes him good? And why does he merit a song at Christmas?

Will Toledo, the founder and lead singer of the band, often uses his music as an outlet to examine his teenage feelings as a young gay man in northern Virginia.

How is a song used in 100 holiday ads somehow connected to Ukraine? It turns out every carol that we sing at Christmas has a story behind it, some inspiring, some strange.

Listening to the album anew, I can see how Carey’s songs shed light on the spiritual and psychological struggles of children of divorce (like Mariah Carey and I).

Florence + The Machine have a number of Catholic allusions and ideas hidden within their music; the lead singer's upbringing as a Catholic can still be seen in some of her lyrics.