Feliz Navidad means "Merry Christmas" in Spanish (literally "Happy [or "Felicitous"] Nativity"). It is also spoken in the plural for emphasis, Felices Navidades. Christmas is a holiday observed in much of the world on 25 December, or on 7 January in most Eastern Orthodox Churches. ... Nativity is the general time and place of a persons birth and early years. ...

Feliz Navidad is also the title of a popular 1968 Christmas song in both the United States and Latin America, a perennial favorite, composed and sung by José Feliciano. Fittingly, Feliciano's own name bears a variant on "happy". 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The 1995 re-release album cover of White Christmas A Christmas song is a song which is normally sung during the Christmas period, and usually has lyrical content addressing the holiday, the winter season, or both. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... José Feliciano (born September 10, 1945 in Lares) is a Puerto Rican singer. ...

The simple lyrics are repeated several times, accompanied by lively Spanish guitar, horns, violins and other orchestral instruments. The words actually sung are shown normally below, with their "opposite" translation (which are not sung) in parentheses.

Feliz Navidad

(Merry Christmas)

Prospero año y felicidad

(Prosperous year and happiness)

Feliz Navidad

(I want to wish you a Merry Christmas)

De todo corazón

(From the bottom of my heart)