Singer Mariah Carey, 52, announced on Instagram Friday she will perform at this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, where she will be opening for Santa Claus. The parade airs on NBC and streams on Peacock.
Carey has turned the holiday into a cottage industry, with concerts, TV specials and even McDonald's menus centered on her love for all things merry. That festive fervor spills over at home, too.
"When I'm not on stage and I'm in holiday mode, there are rules that I set," Carey told USA TODAY earlier this month."I don't care who it is – the kids, if I have guests, whatever – nobody is allowed to play or watch anything other than a Christmas-related thing. If I wake up in the middle of the night and walk into the living room, and the music isn't playing and the lights aren't on, I just can't handle it.".
Carey traces her intense love for the holiday season back to her childhood."Even if I received a Christmas gift that was a piece of fruit literally wrapped up in newspaper, I just had the spirit of that magical time," she says.
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