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Friday 3 august 2018

ARUBAN singer releases unique GOSPEL CD!

Besides Gospel songs, John
also writes love songs and
ballads. In June this year
he wrote and released
the song ‘Mama héroe’, a
song for Mother’s Day in Pa-
piamento (the native lan-
guage of the island). The
song is a Mexican ranchera
and made quite an impact
on the local radio stations
because of the lyrics and
melody. Its videoclip can
be seen on John’s you tube
channel (search for: ‘John
de Freitas You tube’).

This week he also added to
that channel a videoclip
made in the Dominican
Republic for his well-liked
reggae song ‘Walk in love’.
‘This year I want to focus
ORANJESTAD ―John De Fre- that the cd consists of both blessed in working with ics. on writing beautiful songs
itas, an Aruban singer and English and Spanish songs. three talented arrangers’, he states during the inter-
composer has released a John De Freitas has a sono- he says. The main arranger John De Freitas was born view and he has already
gospel cd consisting of an rous lyric baritone voice. on the cd is a well-known and raised on ARUBA. Af- several proofs of that.
interesting variety of tropi- Dominican musician that ter finishing his secondary His most recent release is
cal rhythms (salsa, bacha- Several talented interna- has worked with renowned school on the island, he e.g. a love song in Papia-
ta, bossa nova, merengue) tional and national musi- international Dominican went to Holland to study Bi- mento that has as title ‘Mi
in addition to three ballads. cians have contributed to gospel singers, like Tercer ology and returned to Aru- amor’ (My love). This song
Noteworthy is also the fact the songs. ‘I have been Cielo, Lilly Goodman, and ba after his studies. He has was arranged by a con-
Nancy Amancio to name also academic degrees servatory pianist. John is
just a few. A lot of positive in Business Administration at present working on sev-
energy has been devoted and Civil Law. At present eral other songs in different
to the songs and therefore he works as a researcher languages (English, Dutch
I hope that the public will at an ecological research and Spanish). John can be
like the nice melodies and institute on sister island Cu- contacted at: gospelsong-
meaningful and positive lyr- raçao. sandlyrics@gmail.com. q