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Feliciano! is a 1968 album by Puerto Rican guitarist José Feliciano. All of the tracks are acoustic cover versions of songs popularized by other artists, including The Mamas & the Papas, The Doors, Gerry & the Pacemakers, The Beatles, Jorge Ben Jor, and Lou Johnson…

The title track on José Feliciano’s latest album Behind This Guitar sums up, with uncanny accuracy, the still-unfolding career of this remarkable and singular figure in American musical culture of the last half-century. Puerto Rican by birth, a New Yorker (Spanish Harlem) from his childhood, José Feliciano has been a fact of American musical life since his breakthrough at the height of the Sixties – the golden age of American pop and rock music.

Featuring "Light My Fire", "Malagueña", "Nature Boy"
A fine guitarist with an equally fine voice, José Feliciano slipped easily between styles – from folk to Chicano soul to light rock, all laced with his subtle Latin rhythms – always sounding somehow exactly like himself.

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…

José Montserrate Feliciano García, better known simply as José Feliciano, is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter, best known for many international hits, including his rendition of The Doors' "Light My Fire" and the best-selling Christmas single, "Feliz Navidad". His music is known for having a mix of styles, for example including both flamenco music and mellow easy listening influences in many songs. In the US, he received widespread popularity in the 1960s, particularly after his 1968 album, Feliciano!, came out and was a number two hit. He has released many albums over the years in both English and Spanish.

FELICIANO: A Name That is Synonymous with music. It is synonymous with an international presence that has influenced popular music for more than two generations. It is synonymous with a presence that has bridged musical styles in a way that has never been equaled. Jose Feliciano is recognized as the first Latin Artist to cross over into the English music market, opening the doors for other artists who now play an important role in the American music industry. As importantly, Feliciano has been acclaimed by critics around the world as "The greatest living guitarist"…

16 classic tracks from the legendary vocalist. Contains classic tracks including Light My Fire, Chico & The Man & More. Featuring Feliciano's #1 hit, Feliz Navidad. A virtuosic and soul-steeped singer who never allowed his blindness to impede his fantastic career progress, Jose Feliciano's worldwide musical reign has endured for nearly half a century with no end in sight. Jose's musical innovation has never stopped: his recent projects have been lauded just as emphatically as when he initially made his mark in the U.S. and Latin America during the mid-1960s. Impossible to pigeonhole, Jose Feliciano continues to delight us with his singular musical exports.