Friday, January 22, 2010

Singer Felician0 pr0tests 'Feliz Navidad' par0dy (AP)

NEW YORK – Grammy-winner Jose Feliciano has gotten an defence after accusing a unify of broadcasting producers of trashing the fiber of Christmastime by using his favourite pass song, "Feliz Navidad," for a prejudiced singable mock most unsupported immigrants.

Feliciano free a evidence weekday locution that he was "revolted beyond words" and that the strain was never meant to be "a container for a semipolitical papers of favoritism and hate."

"When I wrote and imperturbable 'Feliz Navidad,' I chose to sound in both arts and land in visit to create a denture between digit wonderful cultures during the instance of assemblage in which we wish for friendliness toward all," the Puerto Rico-born vocaliser said.

The parody, named "The Illegal Alien Christmastime Song," was created by broadcasting producers and writers Matt Fox and A.J. playwright and was posted in mid-December on the Web place for Human Events, a Washington-based standpat weekly business supported in 1944.

Web place application Jed Babbin apologized weekday and said the strain would be distant from the site. The unification to the song's tender was no individual acquirable by Thursday.

"We feel some choler that Mr. Feliciano haw hit condemned from this parody," Babbin said in an e-mail dispatched to The Associated Press.

One lawmaking from the parody, sung in English, riffed on the classify of Latino immigrants as onerous drinkers, patch added said "illegals" were feat to "spread bubonic plague."

Born in Lares, Puerto Rico, in 1945, Feliciano was upraised in New royalty City and wrote "Feliz Navidad" in 1970. It is digit of the most favourite Christmastime songs in the world.


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