Can't Wait For Santaâ„¢
A holiday music project and concert by Monet Bagneris, a love letter to joy, resilience, and the community that holds a season together.
The Mission
"Can't Wait For Santaâ„¢" began as a single: pure anticipation, the kind only a child knows on Christmas Eve. It has grown into a movement: a December 3, 2026 concert bringing 299 people into one room to celebrate what survives when everything else is stripped away.
This site is the digital home for that movement: the song, the story, the seats, and the community rising around it. Every seat sold helps light a stage that almost never got built.
The Artist
Monet Bagneris is an award-winning producer, singer, songwriter, actress, and motivational speaker, a graduate of the University of Southern California trained in classical piano, jazz and pop vocals, and acting. She honed her craft as Miss City of Inglewood and Miss Los Angeles County for the Miss America Organization, earning awards for her talent before becoming a lead vocalist with high-end corporate bands across the country and abroad.
Her voice can be heard on the Billboard Adult R&B Top 10 single "All of My Love" by Charlie Wilson featuring Smokey Robinson, and her original lyrics and melodies shine on "Heart Unbreak" from Kelvin Truitt's Simple Life EP. Along the way she has been mentored by and collaborated with legends who define music legacy, among them Bobby Womack, Nate Dogg, Lamont Dozier of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Janice-Marie Johnson, Barbara Morrison, and Lauren Christy.
These experiences shaped a voice that carries the warmth of the holidays and the weight of a real journey, one that paused, recovered, and came back stronger. When a moment of recognition arrives on the world's biggest stages, it isn't luck. It's confirmation of a lifetime of work.
The Cause
Months before the spotlight, the Altadena fire took nearly everything. Then came the silence: a voice recovering, a future uncertain. Faith held. Therapy held. The notes came back, one by one.
The December 3 concert isn't a comeback. It's a harvest — everything survived, offered back as joy. A portion of proceeds supports fire-recovery and arts-access efforts in the Altadena community.
December 3, 2026
Venue to be announced. 299 seats. One unforgettable night.