Christmas Through Your Eyes

Christmas Through Your Eyes
Studio album by Gloria Estefan
Released	September 27, 1993
Recorded	1992–1993
Studio	Crescent Moon Studios (Miami, Florida) Capitol Studios (Hollywood, California) The Village Recorder (Los Angeles, California) The Hit Factory and Flying Monkey Studios (New York City, New York)
Genre	Christmas
Length	46:01
Label	Epic
Producer	Phil Ramone
Gloria Estefan chronology
Mi Tierra (1993) Christmas Through Your Eyes (1993) Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (1994)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B− [2]
Los Angeles Times	[3]
Music Week	[4]

Christmas Through Your Eyes is the fourth solo studio album, and 16th overall, by Latin-American singer Gloria Estefan, released on September 27, 1993, by Epic Records. It is also Estefan's first Christmas album.

History

Following the success of her multi-awarded Latin album Mi Tierra , Estefan recorded a collection of all Christmas songs released in the early autumn of 1993. The collection contains mostly traditional songs along with the title track, an original song written by Estefan and Diane Warren. The title track was previously released with a different instrumental arrangement on Estefan's 1992 Greatest Hits album, and it was released as a double A-side single with "Miami Hitmix" in Europe. ^[5] The Spanish-language song called "Arbolito de Navidad" is also included.

Estefan, who had found worldwide success singing pop and dance songs, was accompanied by a big band on the song "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" and sings a jazz-inspired rendition of "This Christmas". Music videos were filmed and released for the songs "This Christmas" and "Silent Night", which are included on the video collection Everlasting Gloria!.

Technologically, the album production was used as a testing ground for what would be the digital long-distance audio technology used in the production of the Frank Sinatra album Duets using the Dolby Digital system provided by Skywalker Ranch-based Entertainment Digital Network, so that Estefan could remotely listen to the production sessions in Los Angeles from her home studio in Miami. Both the Estefan and Sinatra album were produced by Phil Ramone and principally recorded and mixed by Eric Schilling.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Overture: Silver Bells"	Jay Livingston, Ray Evans	4:18
2.	"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)"	Mel Torme, Robert Wells	4:13
3.	"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"	Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane	5:30
4.	"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"	Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn	3:56
5.	"This Christmas"	Donny Hathaway, Nadine McKinnor	4:11
6.	"I'll Be Home for Christmas"	Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram	3:30
7.	"White Christmas"	Irving Berlin	4:13
8.	"Silent Night"	Joseph Mohr, Franz Gruber	4:38
9.	"Christmas Through Your Eyes"	Gloria Estefan, Diane Warren	5:01
10.	"Árbolito de Navidad"	Jose Barros	3:56
11.	"Christmas Auld Lang Syne"	Mann Curtis, Frank Military	2:35
Total length:			46:01

Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic. ^[6]

Musicians

Gloria Estefan – vocals Charley Pollard – synthesizer programming (1, 3, 4, 8) Eddie Karam – synthesizer editing (1, 4) Rob Mounsey – programming (2, 5, 9), arrangements (2, 5, 9) Doug Katsaros – programming (6), arrangements (6) Peter Schwartz – programming (7), arrangements (7) Lawrence Dermer – keyboards (10) Juanito Márquez – programming (10), acoustic guitar (10), arrangements (10) Clay Ostwald – programming (11), arrangements (11) Rene Toledo – guitars (1, 4, 5, 7), electric guitar (9) Dennis Budimir – acoustic guitar (8) Jorge Casas – bass (7) Singers Singers Unlimited: Lew Dressler, Bonnie Herman, Gene Puerling and Don Shelton – backing vocals (1, 3) Gene Puerling – vocal arrangements (1, 3) Rob Mounsey – backing vocals (2) Jill Dell'Abate, Brian Jones, Caryn Jones, Kristen Jones, Karen Kamon, Doug Katsaros, Daniel Lavsky, Lukas Previn, BJ Ramone, Joey Rigal and Annette Sanders – backing vocals (5, 9) The American Boychoir – choir (6) Orchestra (Tracks 1, 3, 4, 8) Patrick Williams – arrangements and conductor Percussion Alan Estes Jerry Williams Horns and Woodwinds Gene Cipriano – woodwinds Louise DiTullio – woodwinds Susan Greenberg – woodwinds Brice Martin – woodwinds Geraldine Rotella – woodwinds Charles Loper – trombone Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone Bill Watrous – trombone Charles Davis – trumpet George Graham – trumpet Larry Hall – trumpet Warren Luening – trumpet Donald Wadrop – tuba Marilyn Johnson – French horn Calvin Smith – French horn Kurt Snyder – French horn James Thatcher – French horn String section (Tracks 1, 3 & 8) Drew Dembowski – bass Susan Ranney – bass Kenneth Wild – bass Anna Karam – cello Danny Little – cello Gloria Strassner – cello Nancy Stein-Ross – cello Dorothy Remsen – harp Rick Gerding – viola Carrie Holzman-Little – viola Margot MacLaine – viola James Ross – viola Patricia Aiken – violin Dixie Blackstone – violin Bette Bryers – violin Assa Drori – violin Jennifer Johnson – violin Patricia Johnson – violin Miran Kojan – violin Norma Leonard – violin Don Palmer – violin Jay Rosen – violin Robert Sanov – violin Kwihee Shamban – violin Gerald Vinci – violin Kenneth Yerke – violin

Production

• Phil Ramone – producer
• Richard Alderson – engineer
• Humberto Gatica – engineer
• Lolly Grodner – engineer
• Robert Hart – engineer
• Patrice Levinsohn – engineer
• Charley Pollard – engineer
• Eric Schilling – engineer, mixing
• Nora Castillo – assistant engineer
• Sebastián Krys – assistant engineer, mix assistant
• Leslie Ann Jones – assistant engineer
• Charlie Paakkari – assistant engineer
• Neil Perry – assistant engineer
• Bob Ludwig – mastering at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine)
• Jill Dell'Abate – project coordinator
• David Coleman – art direction
• Alberto Tolot – photography
• Emilio Estefan Jr. – management

Release history

Region	Date
Europe	September 27, 1993 (1993-09-27)
United States	September 28, 1993 (1993-09-28)
Canada	October 12, 1993 (1993-10-12)
Japan	November 3, 1993 (1993-11-03)

Charts and certifications

The album went to No. 43 on the Billboard 200 Pop Album chart and was certified Platinum by the RIAA in the United States for shipments of over a million copies.

Chart performance Chart (1994) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA) [7] 140 US Billboard 200 [8] 43 U.S. Billboard Top Holiday Albums 9 U.S. Billboard Top Pop Catalog Albums 12 US Cashbox Top 100 Albums [9] 41

Certifications Region Certification Certified units/sales United States (RIAA) [10] Platinum 874,000 [11]

References

1. AllMusic review
2. Browne, David (November 12, 1993). "Christmas CD Roundup Review". Entertainment Weekly . Archived from the original on April 21, 2009. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
3. Willman, Chris (December 12, 1993). "Holiday Recordings : HOLIDAY : It's Ring-a-Ling Recordings Time : Those Seasonal Sugarplums and Lumps O' Coal". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved November 28, 2013.
4. Jones, Alan (October 30, 1993). "Market Preview: Mainstream - Albums" (PDF). Music Week . p. 19. Retrieved January 2, 2023.
5. Gloria Estefan, "Greatest Hits." 1992 Sony Music Entertainment
6. "Christmas Through Your Eyes - Gloria Estefan | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
7. "Part of Estefan's ARIA chart history, received from ARIA in 2022". ARIA. Retrieved December 3, 2023– via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
8. "Gloria Estefan Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
9. "Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Cashbox . p. 12. Retrieved September 1, 2025.
10. "American album certifications – Gloria Estefan – Christmas Through Your Eyes". Recording Industry Association of America.
11. Cobo, Leila (July 18, 2009). "Silent Night". Billboard (in Spanish). Vol. 121, no. 28. p. 23. ISSN   0006-2510 . Retrieved April 22, 2022.