Artist: Jose Feliciano
Genre(s):
Rock
Easy Listening
Vocal
Other
Discography:
Mis Mejores Canciones: 17 Super Exitos
Year: 1993
Tracks: 17
A Tribute to the Beatles
Year: 1992
Tracks: 15
Lo mejor de
Year:
Tracks: 22
I Grandi Successi Originali
Year:
Tracks: 24
Collection CD1
Year:
Tracks: 22
Single of the most spectacular Latin-born performers of the pop geological epoch, singer/guitarist Jose Feliciano was born September 10, 1945 in Lares, Puerto Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act; the victim of congenital glaucoma, he was left permanently blind at giving birth. Five eld afterwards, he and his family unit stirred to Newly York City's Spanish Harlem flying field; there Feliciano began learnedness the accordion, later taking up the guitar and making his sir David Low populace approach into royal court at the Bronx's El Teatro Puerto Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act at the old age of ball club. While in high school he became a habitue of the Greenwich Village coffee browse racing circuit, eventually quitting school in 1962 in order to accept a perm fizgig in Detroit; a take with RCA followed a functioning at Freshly York's Gerde's Ethnic music City, and inside 2 old age he appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival. After bowing with the 1964 freshness person "Everybody Do the Fall into place," he issued his flamenco-flavored debut LP The Phonation and Guitar of Jose Feliciano, trailed too soon the adjacent class by The Fantastic Feliciano.
Distressed with the direction of his music following the release of 1966's A Bag Wax of Soul, Feliciano returned to his roots, releasing three straight Spanish-language LPs -- Sombras...Una Voz, Una Guitarra, Mas Exitos de Jose Feliciano and El Sentimiento, La Voz y La Guitarra de Jose Feliciano -- on RCA International, scaling on the Latin pop charts with the singles "La Copa Rota" and "Cupid Gitana." With 1968's Feliciano!, he scored a breakthrough hit with a soulful reading of the Doors' "Light My Fire" that launched him into the mainstream pop stratosphere; a smash subvention of Tommy Tucker's R&B chestnut "Hi Heel Sneakers" coagulated his success, and shortly Feliciano establish himself playing the national hymn during the 1968 World Series. His idiosyncratic Latin-jazz operation of the birdcall proved highly controversial, and disdain the yell of traditionalists and nationalists, his status as an emerging counterculture hero was secured, with a bingle of his rendition too comely a reach.
In 1969 Feliciano recorded three LPs -- Souled, Alive Alive-O, and Feliciano 10 to 23 -- and north Korean north Korean won a Grammy for Best Freshly Artist; however, he never once more equalled the success of "Lighting My Fire," and only the melodic theme song to the situation comedy Marx and the Man after achieved hit condition, edging into the Top 1 C singles chart in 1974. End-to-end the mid-seventies Feliciano remained an active playacting creative person, however, touring per annum and issuance a number of LPs in both English language and Spanish people, including 1973's Steve Cropper-produced Compartments; he as well appeared on the Joni Mitchell collide with "Release Serviceman in Genus Paris," and guested on a figure of boob tube organization series including Kung Fu and McMillan and Wife. In 1980 Feliciano was the number one home playacting artist signed to the newly Latin division of Detroit, fashioning his articulate debut with an eponymous crusade the pursuit class; his recorded production tapering off during the course of instruction of the decade, although he on occasion resurfaced with LPs including 1987's Tu Immenso Amor and 1989's I'm Never Gonna Alteration. A school day in East Harlem was renamed the Jose Feliciano Performing Humanities School in his accolade; in 1996, he likewise appeared in short in the get in at celluloid Fargo.
