Christmas Mourning
A heartfelt song recorded with live musicians in 2000. This song is dedicated to anyone who is lonely during the holidays. Share it with a friend or a family member. Anyone you know who might need a little extra holiday cheer this year.
A heartfelt song recorded with live musicians.
AI animated video bringing holiday joy.
Experience
Michael Allen Howard is a songwriter and producer. He wrote and sang all the vocals on both versions of Christmas Mourning, It was recorded with live musicians across multiple recording studios in Chicago, Illinois in 2000.
While I'm focused on heartfelt, polished music and pop rock love songs, I have a wide variety of musical genres I enjoy and have written songs in. Christmas Mourning is the most complete and polished recording I have written and produced. Many other songs I have written are in various states of completion. More polished recordings are on the way in 2026 so STAY TUNED! Get it? Musician joke. Oh, I'm hilarious all right.
Work
Music Production
Songwriter and Music Producer (putting my dreams on the back burner)
1982 - Present
Composed and recorded songs (mostly by myself, on cassette tapes, because that's what I had available at the time), sometimes with other live musicians, in various studios, mostly in Chicago. Also recorded in a recording studio in Santa Monica, California (pre COVID) and in my home studio.
Video Creation
Christmas Mourning (the song) was written in the 1990s and recorded in 2000 in Chicago with live musicians in multiple recording studios. ALL of Christmas Mourning (including the vocals, which were me singing and speaking, sped up in the recording studio) was created and produced in a recording studio. ONLY the animated video was created with AI.
The animated video was created with AI in 2025.
For over two decades I dreamed of creating an AI-animated music video for the children's version of my song, "Christmas Mourning." It's finally a reality. I hope you enjoy it. If you know someone who is alone during the holidays, please reach out and let them know that someone cares about them. Also, send them this song if you'd like to.
Michael Allen Howard
Songwriter and producer behind the heartfelt track "Christmas Mourning," blending live musicianship with catchy melodies and hooks. There are so many lonely people in our world, especially in 2025, with so many of us communicating (or not) by text, online or spending the majority of our time in front of screens of various sizes, rather than with people in our communities and our families. Longing for human connection is more of a need than ever (in my opinion) in our ultra modern futuristic society. Let's connect with those we have lost touch with and those we have written off for whatever reason. Put a smile on someone's face. Put a smile on YOUR face!
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