Kiki Wow

Q: What song reminds you of home?

A: “I’ll be home for Christmas” (any rendition)

To be honest, whenever I hear that song I get sentimental. I come from a family of 11 brothers and sisters and Christmas time was maddening, but it was also loud and joyful. I know I’ve become nostalgic for that time and place, because people are away from their families. It conjures loneliness, during the time when we’re supposed to be gathering. I think because it’s more of a ballad, I always think of my dad singing it. Females have covered it but when I hear a man’s voice there’s a yearning in the lyrics and a sensitivity to it. There’s something about the male voice’s timbre.

KIKI WOW is a singer-songwriter, event coordinator and since the pandemic a community organizer for Kindness Monterey, which helps raise money for local restaurants. She is currently working on an album that she calls an audiobiography, about growing up in a house of 12 children and trying to make it in the music industry. kikiwow.net