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Dec 18, 2019 · That seems to hold true for Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, the mother and father of “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which is arguably the most popular holiday song in the world...
Walter Afanasieff (born Vladimir Nikitich Afanasyev; February 10, 1958), formerly nicknamed Baby Love in the 1980s, is an American record producer and songwriter. He was a collaborator with Mariah Carey on her first six studio albums.
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Nov 8, 2023 · Carey is credited as a co-writer and co-producer of “All I Want for Christmas Is You” with Walter Afanasieff. However, their explanations behind the song’s creation are wildly different. Afanasieff calls Carey’s story “kind of a tall tale.”
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- Tyler Piccotti
Dec 24, 2022 · Longtime collaborator Walter Afanasieff played Grinch to the pop diva's claim that she basically wrote the song as a little girl. The man who co-wrote “ All I Want For Christmas Is You ” with Mariah Carey says the pop diva’s story about the song’s origin is as false as flying reindeer.
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May 21, 2021 · While working on Daydream in the summer of 1995, Carey and her longtime producer, Walter Afanasieff, explored the notion of making punk music for fun. According to Afanasieff, Carey had...
Dec 19, 2019 · In a new interview with Variety, frequent Mariah Carey collaborator Walter Afanasieff, the co-writer of "All I Want for Christmas," says the song's victory, and his involvement with the...
