The Nutcracker

The nutcracker form of decorative are in the form of wooden carvings of a soldier, knight, king, or other profession have existed since at least the 15th century. These nutcrackers portray a person with a large mouth which the operator opens by lifting a lever in the back of the figurine.

Modern nutcrackers in this style serve mostly for decoration, mainly 

at Christmas time, a season of which they have long been a traditional

symbol. The ballet The Nutcracker derives its name from this festive holiday 

decoration. The original nutcrackers were first seen in Germany and were

thought to have guardian-like properties because of their strong appearance.

The origin of the Nutcracker, a classic Christmas Story, is a fairy tale ballet in 

two acts centered on a family’s Christmas Eve celebration.

The first performance of the Christmas ballet was held as a double premiere

 together with Tchaikovsky’s last opera, Iolanta, around the Christmas holiday

 season on December 18 [O.S. December 6] 1892, at the Imperial Mariinsky 

Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is generally agreed that Lev Ivanov,

 Second Balletmaster to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, worked closely 

with Marius Petipa, Premier Maître de Ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial 

Theatres and widely regarded as the Father of Russian Ballet, to create the 

holiday ballet. It was conducted by Riccardo Drigo, with Antoinetta Dell-Era as

 the Sugar Plum Fairy, Pavel Gerdt as her Prince, Stanislava Belinskaya as 

Clara/Masha, Sergei Legat as the Nutcracker Prince, and Timofei Stukolkin as

 Uncle Drosselmeyer.


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Caga tió and Caganer

Caga tió is an Aragonese and Catalan mythological character who has a holiday tradition in Aragon and Catalonia.

December 8, begin to feed at Tió every day at Tió, it will cover with a blanket to not be cold.
Normally Tió fire was setting and it was defecating, only now you are stuck with sticks so shit gifts accompanied of songs.
The tradition of tió this askin to the christmas tree, also carrying gifts for  the children of the house. In Galicia wood burned on christmas eve.

SONGS IN CATALONIA

Being simples songs and rhymes based on simples songs because traditionally they have been created and sung by children, there are many varitions on these. Read:

Caga tió -caga tió-

ametlles i torró -almendras y turrón-
no caguis arangades -no cagues arenques-
que són massa salades -que son demasiado salados-
caga torrons -caga turrones-
que són més bons -que están más buenos-
Caga tió -caga tió-
ametlles i torró -almendras y turrón-
si no vols cagar -si no quieres cagar-
et donaré un cop de bastó -te daré un golpe de bastón-

Caga tió!



A caganer is a figurine of birth which is usually placed in the cribs, a tradition in Catalonia  Valencia, usually hidden in a corner, trying not to stay in a prominent place.
The tradition of caganer is fully accepted by the Chruch. Place figurine on the crib brouth luck and joy.
The caganer isn't the only typical Catalan Christmas character defecating.

At his time people Caganers have created all kings.
There Caganers singers, footballers, actors...
I put examples of Caganers singers:

THIS IS SHAKIRA ↓↓                               THIS IS BOB MARLEY ↓↓

Video of Caganer:

Three kings' day♚

Three Kings Day, or "Feast of the Epiphany," is celebrated in many parts of the world and marks the day on the Christian calendar when the magi brought gifts to the baby Jesus. Many Hispanic communities in the U.S. celebrate Three Kings Day with many different traditions including parades and performances. 

Santa Claus may have gone back to the North Pole to rest, but it doesn’t mean the gift-giving (and receiving) is over -- at least not for the thousands of children in Latin America and Spain anxiously awaiting Sunday’s “El Día de los Reyes” Celebration.
For many Christians, the holiday season doesn’t officially end until the 12th day of Christmas (remember the lengthy carol about “a partridge in a pear tree”?) known as the “Feast of the Epiphany” or “Three Kings' Day”.

The holiday falls annually on Jan. 6 and marks the biblical adoration of baby Jesus by the three Kings, also referred to as Wise Men or Magi. According to the Gospel of Matthew, the men found the divine child by following a star across the desert for twelve days to Bethlehem. Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar -- representing Europe, Arabia, and Africa respectively -- travelled by horse, camel, and elephant in order to present baby Jesus with three symbolic gifts.

The gold offered by one of the wise men is a symbolic acknowledgment of Jesus’ royal standing as “King of the Jews,” while the frankincense manifests the divine nature of the baby’s existence, since he is not an earthly king but the Son of God. 
And finally the myrrh, often used to embalm corpses, was gifted to the newborn as a symbol of Jesus’ mortality -- foreshadowing his death as a means to cleanse humanity of its sins.



Okay, now you can see this video of history of three kings' day... I'm sorry, It's in Spanish, because I can't finded a video in English :( 

Cimorelli

Cimorelli is a band, the band is formed by six sisters: Christina, Katherine, Lisa, Amy, Lauren and Danielle they are  north California.
His older brother Michael Cimorelli was part of band but now no.

• Christina Cimorelli was born 12 in August 12 of 1990, now 24 years old.
• Katherine Cimorelli was born 04 in March  of 1992, now 22 years old.
• Lisa Cimorelli was born 19 in September of 1993, now 21 years old.
• Amy Cimorelli was born 01 in July of 1995, now 19 years old.
• Lauren Cimorelli was born 12 in August of 1998, now 16 years old.
• Danielle Cimorelli was born 15 in June of 2000, now 14 years old.

The band was founded in 2007, where they sang the national anthem of the United States, after that they decided to upload songs to Youtube, noting that they didn't receive many visits, they stopped for a while.
After a while they hung a video that had a many visits.
The band began their first tour in July of 2013.

The covers that I like are: 

Christmas carols and beauty cover songs!♥

This song is called All I want for christmas is you and it's originated from Mariah Carey (you can see it in there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY), but there are a cover from The Vazquez Sounds. I love the angelical voice from this girl!☼

Oh! Jingle bell rock it's my favourite christmas carol! It's so beautiful... So, there are from Glee, I don't know if this is the original or not, but it doesn't matter hahaha☼

And there are the faaaamous We wish you a merry christmas, this is a popular christmas carol song and I LOVE IT !♥ 

This song makes me cry because it's so perfect :( haha, I love it ! I'ts called The Christmas Song and I think it's a cover because the original (I THINK) it's from Christina Aguilera or I don't know... This is from Ariana Grande and Elizabeth Gillie☼

In this page there are much more Christmas carols: http://www.navidaddigital.com/villancicos/en/ingles/ ♥

Álex Ubago

Álex Ubago is a songwriter spanish of pop.
His real names is Alejandro Martínez de Ubago Rodríguez.
He was born 29 of January of 1981 (now 33 years old), he doesn't have brothers.

When he was 4 years old his parents moved to San Sebastian for work job. 
At 15 years old he began to compose music for fun, at 18 years old began a writing songs of professionally.
He married to Maria Alcorta Garrido, have a one child his name is Pablo.

He has many albums, the ones I like are:
-A gritos de Esperanza.
-Aunque no te pueda ver 
- Dueños de este mundo.

The song that I like is: 

Madilyn Bailey

Madilyn Bailey is an acoustic singer and songwriter from Wisconsin who gained notoriety thanks to her stylistic renditions on YouTube.

She was born in 2 of september, 1992 (now she has 22 years old) and her birth sign is Virgo.

Before fame she worked as a certified nursing assistant but shifted her career to music. She learned to play acoustic guitar, piano and drums.

She was selected by producer John Shanks as a finalist in the Guitar Center Singer/Songwriter Competition in both 2012 and 2013.

She grew up with two sisters and three brothers.

In february of 2014 she was engaged with her best friend Jimmy! 

And she was married in august of 2014.

My favourite cover of Madilyn Bailey is Can't hold us!!♥