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Guest DJ José Feliciano Is An Alt.Latino Icon

Feliciano discusses his career as a crossover pioneer on this week's show and he plays the music that influenced his career — and it's not what you think.
Jose Feliciano performs in Washington DC in June 2018

For those that don't know their Latin music history as well as they should, it's easy to write off as just the guy who wrote and sang that "Feliz Navidad." Maybe they'd to 1970's NBC sitcom But for every and racking up so-called crossover successes, it was Feliciano who paved the way for them back in the late 1960's.

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