Last month, the country music icon Carrie Underwood released her first Christmas album, “My Gift,” which included one very special guest: her 5 year-old son Isaiah!
In a new interview this week, Underwood opened up about just how proud she was of her son as they recorded their version of the classic tune “Little Drummer Boy” together.
“He loves to sing…and he has such a giving, loving heart about him and I could just hear his voice on it,” she told Entertainment Tonight, adding that she wasn’t positive he wanted to do it at first. “So he goes in there and he just gave it his all and it’s so pure and it’s so special and he’s throwing his hands in the air and just so expressive when he was singing it.”
“I was so proud of him, just for giving it his all and the love in his heart because he does love Jesus,” the former “American Idol” winner added. “At 5 years-old he knows, and he was giving all the love. I’m very proud of him.”
Underwood went on to say that while Isaiah “was so happy” when he listened back to the recording, he was also very critical of his work.
“I felt like in his little head…I was trying to read his face. I felt like he was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know.’ Not like, ‘I could’ve done better,’ but there was something and I’m like, that is me in you for sure,'” she continued, explaining that both she and her son are perfectionists.
When asked how she would react if Isaiah ever expresses an interest in following in her musical footsteps, Underwood said she would “definitely be supportive.”
“For whatever it is that he’s feeling like he’s being led to do in life,” Underwood said. “I think he’s gonna be a person of many gifts and we’re gonna see what he wants to do with them. If you ask him right now, it was something like an astronaut, a fireman, then it was like something ridiculous, like Spiderman.”
Underwood shares both Isaiah and her 1 year-old son Jacob with her husband, former professional hockey player Mike Fisher. Throughout her time at home with her family during her quarantine, Underwood said she has tried to fill her kids’ time with as many extracurricular activities as possible.
“It’s so important for them to get that physical time for themselves,” she said. “Hopefully as they get older, they will concentrate more on that and then we will be working out together.”
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