Word: feliciano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were so many more, Steppenwolf and Jose Feliciano, Joni Mitchell's tart beauty, and the Charles Lloyd Quartet's tingling and dignified rhapsodies, but one special word about Procul Harum. They played two flawless sets on successive nights in front of the maedow. I remember them illuminated by the silvery-pink lights of the light show in the dark heat of the night crashing out their rapturous blend of music. Gary Brooker's expansively soulful singing, Robin Trower's eerie guitar, B. J. Wilson's deftly brilliant drumming, Fisher's streaking organ, and above it all the presence...
...today's pop world, the most distinctive styles are often the most motley. Imagine, for instance, a vocal mixture of Johnny Mathis and Ray Charles with a Latin American flavor and a classical-tinged guitar backing. That musical hybrid is José Feliciano. In recent weeks his single release of Light My Fire and his LP entitled Feliciano! have both spun high on the bestseller charts. He has drawn cheering, sellout crowds to performances at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles and Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. He seems to be in demand everywhere, for television shows, movie sound...
...accompaniments. He won applause for the dextrous way that he applied blues and a beat to the delicate lines of traditional Spanish guitar. But his high, quavery tenor, though obviously brimming with feeling, was merely good; it had too much of other singers in it and too little of Feliciano. So Jose spent some lean years in search not only of exposure but also of an identity...