These past couple months have been full of new experiences for the young singer Celine Allan ‘15, known as Celine Marie. She collaborated with a band on a Christmas song, performed the song live on stage, and is going to be putting out new covers on YouTube, all of which are helping her gain more recognition as a performer.

Allan and the band The Fall Four worked on their cover of the song “All I Want for Christmas is You” over Thanksgiving break and recorded a music video that accompanied the song.

“Working with Celine for the Christmas song and video was very cool,” Kyle Dee, lead singer of The Fall Four, said. “I’ve always wanted to do a duet, so we were super excited to make it happen. Celine is an excellent singer and our voices complimented each other very well.”

Allan performed with The Fall Four at one of their gigs on Dec. 20 and sang their cover, which they released earlier that month.

Dee and Allan are used to performing live in different ways: Allan is not used to performing with a live band and Dee is not used to working with another main vocalist and trying to do harmonies. He is used to doing all the melodies while his other members back him up. They had to practice before the performance to figure out all the different parts, Allan said.

“It was really fun and a good experience. It was not super serious, but I was really happy they asked me to do it,” Allan said.

Besides working with The Fall Four, Allan also plans to start posting new videos on YouTube of her covering different songs. They will be called “Live Sessions.” She will be posting one each month and hopes to start by the end of this month or next month.

“Being able to get more music out to the public has been awesome,” Allan said. “When you record your own songs in a studio, it is only publicized based off of what you make of it. Covers are different because people can just search the song and different covers will pop up, so it is a way to get more people to notice my singing.”

Allan is also planning to work with The Fall Four again soon. They are going to do a live, in-studio cover as a part of her live session series, Dee said.