It taught the English to speak Spanish and it taught the Spanish to speak English. If we had more songs such as that, it would solve the immigration problem in a hurry. But there can’t be another ‘Feliz Navidad.’ Jose Feliciano Read Quote
My first memory of playing music was when I was 3 years old in Puerto Rico. I played percussion on a tin can behind my uncle, who played the cuatro. Jose Feliciano Read Quote
I don’t think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player – he was a baseball player who happened to be Jewish. I’m an artist who happens to be Latin. Jose Feliciano Read Quote
RCA wanted me to change my name. They asked me around 1965, when they first signed me. They said, ‘Feliciano is too Latin.’ I said, ‘That’s who I am. I’m Jose Feliciano.’ They wanted me to change my name to Joe Phillips. Jose Feliciano Read Quote
I’m kind of iffy on the Latin Grammys because I think we fought so hard, for example, to get the American side of the Grammys to open categories for us… But I support the Latin Grammys in the sense I’m glad that we have them. Jose Feliciano Read Quote
Now everybody has been doing the national anthem in their own style, but in 1968 I was the one that took the heat. It cut my career for quite a while. Jose Feliciano Read Quote