WHEN A CHILD IS BORN (Lyrics) - JOSE MARI CHAN

For educational purposes only and no copyright infringement is intended. About the song composition: “When a Child is Born“ is a popular Christmas song. The original melody was “Soleado“, a tune from 1972 by Ciro Dammicco (alias Zacar), composer for Italy’s Daniel Santacruz Ensemble. The English language lyrics were written a few years later by Fred Jay. They do not make specific mention of Christmas but the importance they attach to looking forward to the birth of one particular child somewhere, anywhere, suggests a reference to the birth of Jesus Christ, and the citing of “a tiny star“ that “lights up way up high“ may allude to the Star of Bethlehem. Fred Jay’s lyrics have been sung by many artists, most successfully by Johnny Mathis in 1976. Soleado is used in the 1975 Argentinean film Nazareno Cruz y el lobo (The Love of the Wolf), and it is credited as Theme From the Motion Picture ’The Love of the Wolf’ on Mathis’s album “Johnny M