YOU ARE
MY SUNSHINE
CHRISTINA
PERRY
SONGWRITER:
JIMMIE DAVIS
COUNTRY:
U. S. A.
ALBUM: SONG FOR CAMELLA: LULLABIES & SING-A-LONGS
GENRE: CHILDREN’S MUSIC
LABEL: ELEKTRA(NEK)
YEAR: 2019
Christina Judith Perri(born August 19, 1986) is
an American singer and songwriter. After her debut single "Jar of Hearts"
was featured on the television series So You Think You Can Dance in 2010, Perri signed with Atlantic Records and released her debut extended play, The Ocean Way
Sessions. Her debut studio album, Lovestrong(2011),
followed soon after and has since been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA).
Perri also gained recognition for writing and
recording "A Thousand Years",
the love theme for the
film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2(2012),
which appears on the accompanying soundtrack.
The song went on to sell over 10 million copies in the United States, being
certified Diamond, and the official music video reached two billion views on YouTube in December 2021. She later released her second extended play, A
Very Merry Perri Christmas(2012), followed by her second studio album, Head or Heart(2014).
After recording the lullaby albums Songs
for Carmella(2019) and Songs for Rosie(2021), Perri released her third studio
album, A Lighter Shade of Blue(2022).
Perri was born in Bensalem,
Pennsylvania. She is of Italian and Polish
descent, and has called her family "very Italian". She has an older
brother, Nick Perri, who
formerly played guitar with Shinedown, Silvertide, Perry Farrell and Matt Sorum and
cousin Dominic Perri.
She graduated from Archbishop
Ryan High School in 2004 and later attended
the University of the Arts. She
taught herself how to play guitar as a 16-year-old by watching a videotape of Shannon Hoon from the
group Blind Melon performing
on VH1. In college she majored
in communication for a year before dropping out to pursue a music career.
She frequently sang and acted in musical
theater as a child. Perri claims to have learned to play piano and guitar
because she missed hearing music being played in the house when she moved away.
According to Perri, whenever she played the guitar or piano, she would sing and
"all of a sudden these songs would appear."
Christina Perri has been
waiting what feels like a thousand years to dedicate her voice to a daughter.
While the "Jar of Hearts" singer may have taken a momentary hiatus from putting out new tunes
after the release of her 2014 album Head or Heart,
it turns out she had signed her voice over to motherhood.
Perri and her husband Paul Costabile welcomed
their first child, a daughter named Carmella Stanley, on Jan.
17, shortly after they tied the knot on Dec. 12, 2017, in New York City.
Using her experience with becoming a mother
to “tiptoe back into working and putting out new music,” Perri, 32, is
announcing her latest and greatest project: a lullaby album.
“Putting out new songs that I sang to her all
year feels so authentic and genuine as to where I’m at in my real life. I am a
huge fan of when people are authentic of where people are at,” she tells PEOPLE
about her album Songs for Carmella: Lullabies & Sing-a-Longs,
which is set to be released on Carmella’s first birthday.
“I just didn’t want to jump into a new
project that wasn’t related to how amazing my life is right now due to my
daughter,” she adds. “That’s the biggest and best thing that’s ever happened to me,
so I didn’t want to pretend that didn’t happen.”
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are gray
You'll never know, dear
How much I love you
Please don't take
My sunshine away
The other night, dear
As I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you
In my arms
When I awoke, dear
I was mistaken
So I hung my head and I cried
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are gray
You'll never know, dear
How much I love you
Please don't take
My sunshine away.
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