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Tuesday, 12 January 2016

This young talented boy JOTTA A rendition of 'Oh Happy Day' will blow you away!

In case you don’t know this dude called Jotta, you can be forgiven probably because of the part of the world he comes from.

 The young talented boy is known about this lad but here are the few I have been able to gather about him.


The thing is, when you talk of a 13 year old boy [1999] from Brazil, the next thing that comes to peoples mind is a new football (soccer) whiz kid. Jotta life is about music. The youngest of three children of  Antonio and Edna Holanda, living in the village of Angélica, just outside Sorocaba, Brazil. 



The Origins By

Edwin Hawkins’ [Gospel Musician]

 Arrangement of the hymn "Oh, Happy Day" has a long pedigree:

It began as a hymn written in the mid-18th century ("O happy day, that fixed a choice") by English clergyman Philip Doddridge (based on Acts of the Apostles Acts 8:35) set to an earlier melody (1704) by Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen J. A. Freylinghausen.

 By the mid-19th century it had been given a new melody by Edward Francis Rimbault|Edward F. Rimbault, who also added a chorus,<ref>P. Doddridge and E. F. Rimbault, "Happy Day", in Joseph Flintoft Berry and Charles H. Gabriel (1914), eddy., ''Hymns of the Heart'', New York: 

  Methodist Book Concern, Hymn 134.</ref> and was commonly used for baptism or confirmation ceremonies in the UK and USA. 

The 20th century saw its adaptation from 3/4 time ¾ to [[4/4 time]] and this new arrangement by Hawkins, which contains only the repeated Rimbault refrain, with all of the original verses being omitted.

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