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Goya Foods Presents The Lehman Center Performing Arts Series Feliz Navidad Holiday Concert JosÉ Feliciano at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts

Courtesy of Nah | Posted on November 25, 2018

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Lehman Center for the Performing Arts
250 Bedford Park Blvd. West
Bronx, NY
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Goya Foods Presents The Lehman Center Performing Arts Series Feliz Navidad Holiday Concert  JosÉ Feliciano at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts

When

Sat, December 8, 2018
8:00 pm

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Lehman Center for the Performing Arts and GOYA FOODS celebrates Feliz Navidad with the return, by popular demand, of multi-GRAMMY Award-winning legendary singer, composer and virtuoso guitarist JOSÉ FELICIANO on Saturday, December 8th, 2018 at 8pm. Nine-time Grammy Award winner and one of Latin music’s most beloved stars known for his chart-topping recording “Light My Fire” that catapulted him to pop superstardom in 1968, and his best-selling Christmas single and GRAMMY Hall of Fame original song “Feliz Navidad”, JOSÉ FELICIANO possesses an unmistakable tenor voice that can be heard on nearly seventy albums. He brought the acoustic guitar to a new level and influenced pop music for two generations with songs in English, Spanish, and Italian, crossing over genres of music, from soul to pop, and from Latin to classical. His mega-hits include “Ché Sera” and “Me Has Echado Al Olvido”. Forty-five gold and platinum records, nine GRAMMY® Awards, the most recent being the 2011 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, countless additional honors and awards and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame signify a career rivaled by only a handful of artists. Feliciano caught the world by surprise when he became the first artist to ever stylize the U.S. National Anthem “Star-Spangled Banner” and perform it publicly, which went on to be a charted Top-40 recording in 1968. This year, on Flag Day (June 14th), to celebrate the 50th (Golden) Anniversary of his interpretation of the anthem, José donated the custom-built guitar that he used to record it to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., which also displays the original Star-Spangled Banner, quite an exciting experience for Feliciano! Just as he had taken long-time standards and made them new with his own style of acoustic guitar and jazz and American vocal inflections, he created the pathway for new generations of stylization of the anthem. Puerto Rican-born JOSÉ FELICIANO returns to Lehman Center to perform a special Feliz Navidad Holiday Concert. Produced by Lehman Center....

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