Mangione had begun his artistic career in 1960 releasing album after album with a total of eight, all of which seemed to be, despite their undoubted quality, stuck at the bottom of the charts with little commercial impact.
His career up to that point had been quite prolific with various collaborations such as the Jazz Brothers, together with his brother Gaspare, in different jazz orchestras such as Art Blakey's Jazz Messenger and he even recorded an ambitious project with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra where he wanted to express his ideas of merging jazz and rock and which included the cut "The Hill Where The Lord Hides" with which he would draw attention.
When "Feels So Good" came out, it produced a collective madness towards Mangione's music, even leading the pop and black music charts, something unusual coming from the world of jazz.
But more unusual was that it would win the Grammy Award in three different categories; pop, jazz and rhythm and blues.
After this "Feels So Good", Mangione published other albums of great repercussion such as "Fun And Games" and the soundtrack "Los Hijos de Sanchez", both at the end of the seventies.
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