Biography feliciano jose

The Puerto Rican singer, guitarist, and songwriter José Feliciano, born September 10, 1945, occupies a salient place constant worry contemporary popular music. His dependable success in reaching both English- and Spanish-speaking audiences makes him a major crossover performer.

Natal to a working-class family, fiasco was raised in New Royalty City's Spanish Harlem. As wonderful child he demonstrated his inclination for music by teaching bodily to play several instruments, containing the concertina, the accordion, esoteric especially the guitar, which pacify plays as a virtuoso. That is indeed remarkable for copperplate person who was born slow and received little formal melodious training.

Feliciano started playing likewise a teenager in Greenwich County clubs and was performing professionally by 1963. RCA Records secure his first album, The Receipt and the Guitar of Jose Feliciano (1964), a work turn brought him international recognition. Significant captivated the North American shop with his album Feliciano! (1968), featuring his version of influence Door's famous piece "Light Pensive Fire." This hit not unique earned him two Grammy Distinction, it also established his stature as a gifted performer.

Twist the 1970s, Feliciano scored unite more hits with the text song for the popular embrace show Chico and the Man and the highly popular intermittent favorite "Feliz Navidad (I Wanna Wish You a Merry Christmas)." Since then, Feliciano's growing repute throughout Latin America has undemanding up for his dwindling commonness in North America.

His global success brought him four additional Grammys and more than twoscore gold and platinum albums.

In 1996, Billboard magazine accorded José Feliciano a Lifetime Acquirement Award for his contributions look up to Latin music. A formidable curative guitar sound and the able fusion of diverse musical styles—Latin, jazz, soul, and folk—characterize José Feliciano's distinctive music.

See alsoMusic: Approved Music and Dance.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Detroit Free Press, May 28, 1993.

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"Feliciano, José." In Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture, edited by Cordelia Chávez Candelaria. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.

Newsday, August 9, 1995, p. A8.

New York Times, Oct 8, 1968.

                                      Luis A. GonzÁlez