Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ gets Spanish version thanks to artificial intelligence [Video]

A Spanish version of Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” created with artificial intelligence — and with Lee’s approval — is here just in time for the holiday season.

The new version, titled “Noche Buena y Navidad,” was produced by Grammy winner Aureo Baqueiro, who kept the original music and background vocals from the original version but replaced Lee’s lead vocals with a new Spanish-language vocal created with SoundLab’s AI MicDrop tool. It was released Friday.

This audio plug-in, which allows a person to transform their voice into another person’s voice, makes it appear as though Lee was back in the recording booth at age 13 singing the song in Spanish.

A press release from Universal Music Group credits “an innovative use of responsibly-trained AI technology” for helping create “Noche Buena y Navidad.”

“I am so blown away by this new Spanish version of ‘Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree,’ …