Jose Feliciano

He has also been voted both Best Jazz and Best Rock Guitarist in the Playboy magazine readers' poll numerous times. Jose has received over 40 gold and platinum records, has won 14 Grammy nominations and six Grammy awards, and has earned countless prestigious awards the world over.Constantly in demand to perform all over the world, Jose has played before royalty and behind what used to be the Iron Curtain. He has enjoyed performing with top symphony orchestras, including the London Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the famous Vienna Symphony. He has also appeared on major television shows worldwide and done a number of his own television specials.

Jose was born blind, to humble beginnings, on September 10, 1945 in Lares, Puerto Rico. One of 11 boys, Jose began his love affair with music at the age of three when he first accompanied his uncle on a tin cracker can. When he was five, his family emigrated to New York City. Young Jose learned to play a concertina at age six, using a handful of records as his teacher. At eight, he performed for his classmates at P.S. 57 and, at nine, performed at the Puerto Rican Theater. Wanting to venture beyond the accordion, he taught himself to play the guitar with undaunted determination and, again, nothing but records as his teacher for as many as 14 hours a day. Exposed to the rock-n-roll of the 1950s, Jose was then inspired to sing.

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