JOSE FELICIANO - SENOR BACHATA
It’s always a challenge to take an artist out of his or her established format and plunge him or her into another. So it’s a tribute to Jose Feliciano’s artistry that he’s able to navigate pop and tropical idioms with ease, and that his foray into bachata — perhaps the genre most alien to his long recording history — is convincing. The album title is a nod to Feliciano’s previous “Senor Bolero,” which found him singing bolero standards. Here, he does the same with Dominican bachata, pairing up with Dominican icon Millie Quezada, but also with salsa singer La India and urban/reggaeton duo Rakim & Ken-Y for a more youthful feel.
