After her show past year, the Grammy nominee, told PBS how she felt astir singing a mariachi rendition of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" astatine the White House on with a peculiar impermanent to ticker her perform, her dad Alejandro.

"My ma is simply a Cuban immigrant, my dada emigrated to the United States from Mexico and precocious besides became a citizen," she explained successful the video shared with E! News. "The information that I'm capable to wage tribute to my heritage and correspond Latinos and besides person my dada beryllium sharing this infinitesimal with maine it's benignant of, like, a brainsick moment. The information that we're an migrant household and we're astatine the White House is truly peculiar and truly cool.

And wherefore "I'll Be Home For Christmas" arsenic the tune of choice? 

"For me, it's being successful Miami, being with my family," the 25-year-old shared. "Because I'm traveling truthful overmuch year-round, the holidays is simply a clip I cognize that I'm going to beryllium location and I truly look guardant to that. And yeah, the mariachi mentation came astir due to the fact that I've been penning my medium Familia this year, wherever I've intertwined my practice and my euphony a lot. So I was like, 'How tin I bash that for this Christmas opus to person it benignant of necktie into this section of my beingness wherever I'm truly digging deeper and deeper into my roots and wherever I travel from and the philharmonic broadside of that?'"

And this twelvemonth is nary different, arsenic connected Nov. 5, Camila revealed that she recorded her ain mentation of the vacation classic, posting a babe pic of her with an emoji Santa hat. "recorded this mariachi screen of my favourite Christmas opus past twelvemonth connected @amazonmusic," she wrote. "it's retired connected each platforms present and i'm inactive ace arrogant of it. bask #IllBeHomeForChristmas.