Jose Feliciano

Sadly, the boy was born with serious health problems and passed away a few weeks after birth. His body was brought back to Los Angeles, California for interrment in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery. The woman gave birth to a baby boy. Andy Gibb died at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, England, of heart failure. In 2001, Feliciano admitted to having inpregnated a woman outside his marriage. After a brief affair with the actress Victoria Principal, his career began to wane, and the use of drugs, especially cocaine, took its toll on his health. In 1995, Feliciano was honored by the government of New York, which re-named Public School 155 the Jose Feliciano Performing Arts School. He soon followed it up with "Shadow Dancing" (the only Top Ten hit written by all four performing Gibb brothers), and for a brief period was one of the world's top pop stars, achieving almost immediate success in both the USA and UK.

He had his hands cast on the famous Madame Tussaud's museum's Wall of Fame, and he has a star in the Walk of Fame of his natal Puerto Rico. In 1977, he had his first major hit, "I Just Want to Be Your Everything", a song written by his brother Barry. He received a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1987, after continuing on being a very popular singer during the 1980s. They had one child before he left her in 1978, his work and family commitments having come between them. Feliciano holds the distinction of being one of the few singers to have enjoyed success both in Spanish music and in English rock and roll. In 1976, he married his girlfriend, Kim, in Sydney, Australia. Feliciano's Star-Spangled Banner took place 10 months before the now famous Jimi Hendrix rendition at Woodstock. All of his singles released hit the number one spot simultaneously.

The rendition was released as a single showed up in the Billboard top 40. Instead, he embarked on a successful solo career. Others understood the emotions and sincerity of his performance, and he emerged as a counterculture hero. The idea of his joining the Bee Gees was often mooted, but the age gap between him and his elder brothers made this difficult to achieve. Some called his rendition unpatriotic and a disgrace; some called for his exportation. He was born Andrew Roy Gibb in Manchester, England, to Hugh and Barbra Gibb, and began performing while still a child, performing in bars in Australia and Spain at only 15 years of age. His highly personalized, slow, Latin-jazz performance proved highly controversial. Andy Gibb (5 March 1958 - 10 March 1988) was a British singer and teen idol, and the younger brother of Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, also know as the famous Bee Gees.

In 1968, at the height of protests against the Vietnam War, Feliciano was given the opportunity to sing the Star-Spangled Banner during the World Series. He immediately became a sensation all across North America and he sold millions of albums there with those two songs. Feliciano then composed Feliz Navidad (I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas!!) which has become a Christmas classic in the United States as well as in Latin-America, and his own version of The Doors' song Light My Fire. Then, he moved to Los Angeles, to pursue his dream of becoming a house hold name in the United States too.

After two more, successful albums, Feliciano had become a household name all over Latin America. The result was two smashing hits with the singles Poquita Fe (Little Faith) and Uste ( You, uste(d) being a more respectful way to say you in Spanish). They weren't sure what they wanted to record, but Feliciano suggested they record bolero music. There, he impressed RCA Victor officials, who told him to stay there to record an album in Spanish.

In 1966, he went to Mar Del Plata, to perform at the Festival de Mar Del Plata. He went to Detroit for that. That year also, he had his first professional, contracted performance. At 17, he quit school to play on clubs, because his family was going through a precarious economic situation.

To learn, he locked himself in his room for up to 14 hours a day to listen to 1950s rock albums. He could play various instruments (such as the accordion) by then but he wanted to learn to play the guitar. At age 9, he played on the Teatro Puerto Rico. At five, his family moved to Spanish Harlem, New York City.

He was first exposed to music at age 3. Feliciano overcame his handicap to score many international hits. The victim of congenital glaucoma, he was left permanently blind at birth. José Feliciano (born September 10, 1945 in Lares), is a Puerto Rican singer.