Marcus Bell Releases R&B Christmas Song for the New Netflix Movie ‘Operation Christmas Drop’

Brian Cade
4 min readDec 22, 2020

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Marcus Bell (Bellringer) recently released the R&B Christmas song he produced, composed, and sang ‘Joy to the World’ featured in the new Netflix movie ‘Operation Christmas Drop’ that came out recently.

Marcus Bell is a well-known multifaceted artist in the music industry. As a producer, songwriter and singer he has worked with some of the biggest artists internationally. Marcus is one of the composers and songwriters behind Katy Perry’s album ‘Witness’, and composer of ‘The Pinkprint’ by Nicki Minaj. Beyonce performed to one of the songs produced by Bellringer on her “On the Run II Tour” co-headlined with husband Jay-Z. His list of credits also includes Snoop Dogg, Timbaland, Gala, and many more. Bell has also produced soundtracks for several television shows and films.

Photographer: Lital Marom

It is not the first time Bellringer makes music for big TV shows and films. He has a long list of credits. Upcoming tittles of new series Marcus has composed, produced or sang for include P-Valley (Starz Network) with the singles ‘Boy Listen’ and ‘Own It’, and the soon-to-be-released Netflix series Ginny & Georgia with the song ‘Give Us Love.’

Besides his music career Marcus is a successful entrepreneur. One of his projects is a boot camp called ‘Wealth and Impact’. In this boot camp, he is currently doing 100 Days Challenges and will be doing more throughout the year. This Challenges help people achieve their goals in life, not matter what they are.

“The challenge has been created to help people move forward on the things they care most about. Challenges have been around for a while and most are shorter-term challenges that are between 5–30 days. This challenge really helps people to change their behavior in a positive way because of the way it is designed. It builds community in times where so many people are alone and it provides accountability so that people can have enough incentive to stick to it. The challenge cuts across cultures, communities, industries, and conditions of life. It creates a community of people that want to go for their dreams and full potential in life.” Explains Bellringer.

The people joining this challenge will have to share every day what they did with the rest of the community, this way they feel they really have to stick to it. They’ll also have to create a consequence for themselves, something they’d hate doing. If they miss one day of the challenge, they’ll have to apply that consequence.

Each individual has a different goal, it could be getting a better relationship with your family or partner, growing your company, selling more records, or anything anyone wants.

Years ago, Marcus was $75K in debt and life wasn’t as easy as it is now… But he managed to go from being in debt to becoming a millionaire and the go-to music producer/songwriter for celebrity artists.

He is soon going to release a single called ‘Distancia’ with Spanish singer Cristina Malakhai. ‘Distancia’ is a song that weaves seduction and disconnected love, blending R&B, Latin Pop, Hip-Hop, and Electronic music. The touches of traditional Flamenco pull listeners into a dance with the fusion of cultures that is today’s music. The song’s fresh sound, which marries Latin and African-American urban music, in Spanish and English.

“Languages and lyrics are a vehicle just as music itself is a vehicle to communicate emotions and ideas. I’m a beginning Spanish speaker and one of the things I’ve grown to love about Latin culture is the expressiveness in the language. Cristina has the ability to create paintings with her words and I’m in love with words as well. Having two languages in this song to create one expression just gives listeners more access to the heart of our song. With this song we want to capture the emotional struggle that being apart creates. Maybe in this time of Covid it becomes the expression for many people who can’t express the yearnings of being apart from those they love and not knowing how to come back together so there is no heart, mind and spirit separation.” Says Marcus.

Marcus Bell and Cristina Malakhai

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