Jose Feliciano "Windmills Of Your Mind"

José Montserrate Feliciano García (born September 10, 1945) is a Puerto Rican singer and guitarist. He was left permanently blind at birth due to congenital glaucoma. Feliciano overcame the effects of this impairment to score many international hits. In 1963 after some live performances in pubs and clubs around the USA (especially in Greenwich Village, NY (where he played in the same time of Bob Dylan or Joan Baez), he was signed at RCA Victor. In 1964, he released his first single "Everybody do The Click". Later, in 1965 and 1966, he also released his first albums "The Voice and Guitar of Jose Feliciano" and "A Bag Full of Soul", two folk-pop-soul albums then shown in the USA his talent in some radios around the country where He was been described like a "10 finger wizard", He also was invited at Newport Jazz festival in 1964. In 1966, he went to Mar del Plata, Argentina, to perform at the Festival de Mar del Plata. There, he impressed RCA Victor officials who told him to stay there to record an album in Spanish. They weren't sure what they wanted to record, but Feliciano suggested they record bolero music. The result was two smash hits with the singles Poquita Fe (Little Faith, aka Sin Fe, or Without Faith), a song written by fellow Puerto Rican Bobby Capó, and Usted (the formal way to say "you" in Spanish). A year later Feliciano was to perform in Great Britain, but authorities would not allow his guide dog into the country. The stringent quarantine measures of those ...