Jon Pardi may not be the musician he is today if it wasn’t for a very special Christmas present he got when he was young.

Jon says when he was “real young” he got a guitar for Christmas, although he admits he didn’t take very good care of it. “This guitar spent multiple nights in the backyard and probably got hit by a sprinkler,” he shares. “I was a kid. I didn’t know what to do with this thing.”

But apparently that guitar had an impact on him. “I always tell parents you just never know, if you get a little toy that’s a guitar or drum set, you never know what that’ll spark in a child’s mind,” he shares. “So, who would’ve know if I had never gotten that guitar.”

Meanwhile, like most people, Jon loves a good holiday movie, but what he watches definitely depends on who he’s watching it with. Jon says that while he’s a fan of the raunchy Christmas comedy “Bad Santa,” if he’s watching with his little cousins the movie choice tends to be “Elf.”

As for what he plans to do this Christmas, Jon and his fiancée Summer invited their family to Hawaii, with the caveat of “no gifts.” “We’re just gonna go and help celebrate as a family and everybody and Christmas in Maui,” he shares. “So we kinda turned it into this nice family vacation that’s over Christmas, and then we’ll fly back to Nashville and have Christmas there. So, it’s cool.”