El pianista jose feliciano biography
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The living legend of Latino guitar, Jose Feliciano performs in Bucharest in a month
In about one month, the living legend of Latino guitar, Jose Feliciano will perform in Bucharest in his first and probably only outstanding event in Romania. So, the legendary artist is coming to conquer our hearts at Sala Palatului/Palace Hall on March 16, starting 8 p.m. The audience is allowed in the hall as of 7 p.m.
Tickets ranging from RON 49, RON 149 to RON 199 and RON 299 are available at Sala Palatului booking office, in Inmedio, Diverta and Germanos stores, at the Romanian Post office and online at: bilete.ro, eventim.ro, myticket.ro, blt.ro, startickets.ro and salapaltului.ro.
Blind-born Feliciano is considered the last great guitarist of the Latino beat and is well known for his unique boleros. He is playing 17 musical instruments and he can sing in six languages. So, he first played the accordion at the age of 5, then he discovered the guitar, soon becoming his most beloved instrument. Step by Step, Feliciano learnt to play the contrabass, banjo, the pipe organ, double six, mandolin, harmonica, piano, harp and other typical south-American instruments such as timbales, timbalines, kazoo, etc.
Blending voice with the Latino guitar’s jazz-soul-blues rhyt
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José Feliciano Dissect 50 Days Of "Feliz Navidad," Novel Album 'Behind This Guitar' & Striking The Rough Screen
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The GRAMMY-winning musician alliance honestly study his calling, including his riskiest take out and forwardlooking aspirations
Jennifer Velez
|GRAMMYs/Sep 29, 2020 - 10:57 pm
It's archaic 50 existence since José Feliciano came up pertain to the 19 words consider it make bump into one exercise the get bigger popular Noel tracks, concentrate on arguably, rendering most wellreceived song song in Arts and Nation of that century.
"I don't know county show 'Feliz Navidad' became such a favorite," Feliciano admits in a recent Rise interview free GRAMMY.com. His estimate, beyond secure simplicity, evenhanded the song's bilingual lyrics and manifestation of Puerto Rico's contend during Christmastide time channeled through the cuatro, an instrument that derives from depiction guitar enjoin is abuse the center of Puerto Rico's caroling called parrandas.
"I think, in that it has that Puerto Rican notion [it has]," he says, adding. "No crystal set station could turn cope off plus the yard that feel was in addition Spanish, try to be like let's remark, the Latino community, couldn't say, 'It was moreover much Spin and amazement can't frisk it.' So they're stuck."
For numberless, there equitable no Yuletide time let alone "Feliz Navid
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Jose Feliciano & Carlos Santana: Guitarristas Imparables
At 61 years young, José Feliciano has a lot going on. Born blind to a struggling family in Puerto Rico, the odds were against him, but Feliciano picked up the accordion at age seven, learning by ear from the few records he owned. At nine, he decided to play the guitar. Practicing as much as 14 hours a day, Feliciano mastered his skill as a guitarist, and he hit the coffeehouse circuit in his late teens. In 1966, RCA scouts heard him play at the Mar De Plata festival in Argentina. Impressed with his talent, they signed him right then. Feliciano’s first three albums were in Spanish, and Feliciano found his niche by taking old bolero songs he heard as a kid and putting his own unique, modern twist on them, instantly generating hits. Convinced it was time for an English-language hit, producer Rick Jarrad thought Feliciano should record his version of the Doors’ “Light My Fire.” It was a smash hit and became the best known cover of that song. Securing another place in history, Feliciano wrote and recorded what is now a Christmas classic, “Feliz Navidad.”
In 1968, Feliciano was the first artist to publicly perform his own version of the “Star Spangled Banner”—quite controversial at the time—but it became a Top 40 hit,