Jose Feliciano
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Jose Feliciano Biography
One of the most prominent Latin-born performers of the pop era,
singer/guitarist Jose Feliciano was born September 10, 1945 in Lares,
Puerto Rico; the victim of congenital glaucoma, he was left permanently
blind at birth. Five years later, he and his family moved to New York
City's Spanish Harlem area; there Feliciano began learning the
accordion, later taking up the guitar and making his first public
appearance at the Bronx's El Teatro Puerto Rico at the age of nine.
While in high school he became a fixture of the Greenwich Village
coffeehouse circuit, eventually quitting school in 1962 in order to
accept a permanent gig in Detroit; a contract with RCA followed a
performance at New York's Gerde's Folk City, and within two years he
appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival. After bowing with the 1964
novelty single Everybody Do the Click, he issued his
flamenco-flavored debut LP The Voice and Guitar of Jose Feliciano,
trailed early the next year by The Fantastic Feliciano.
Unhappy with the direction of his music following the release of 1966's
A Bag Full of Soul, Feliciano returned to his roots, releasing three
consecutive 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, scoring on the Latin pop
charts with the singles La Copa Rota and Amor 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 cover of Tommy Tucker's R&B chestnut Hi Heel
Sneakers solidified his success, and soon Feliciano found himself
performing the national anthem during the 1968 World Series. His
idiosyncratic Latin-jazz performance of the song proved highly
controversial, and despite the outcry of traditionalists and
nationalists, his status as an emerging counterculture hero was
secured, with a single of his rendition also becoming a hit.
In 1969 Feliciano recorded three LPs -- Souled, Alive Alive-O, and
Feliciano 10 to 23 -- and won a Grammy for Best New Artist; however, he
never again equalled the success of Light My Fire, and only the theme
song to the sitcom Chico and the Man subsequently achieved hit status,
edging into the Top 100 singles chart in 1974. Throughout the 1970s
Feliciano remained an active performer, however, touring annually and
issuing a number of LPs in both English and Spanish, including 1973's
Steve Cropper-produced Compartments; he also appeared on the Joni
Mitchell hit Free Man in Paris, and guested on a number of television
series including Kung Fu and McMillan and Wife. In 1980 Feliciano was
the first performer signed to the new Latin division of Motown, making
his label debut with an eponymous effort the following year; his
recorded output tapered off during the course of the decade, although
he occasionally resurfaced with LPs including 1987's Tu Immenso Amor
and 1989's I'm Never Gonna Change. A school in East Harlem was renamed
the Jose Feliciano Performing Arts School in his honor; in 1996, he
also appeared briefly in the hit film Fargo. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music
Guide
Written by Jason Ankeny