Carlos Santana
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Born 1947-07-20
Autlán de Navarro (México)
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Carlos Santana (born as Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán; 20 July 1947 in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, México) is a Mexican rock guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine listed Santana at number 15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and 3 Latin Grammy Awards.
Santana has was an avenue named after him as well as a statue of a guitar in the city where he was born (born in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, México) to honour him. The family moved from there to Tijuana In La Calonia Libertad, the city on Mexico's border with California, and then San Francisco, USA. Carlos stayed in Tijuana but joined his family in San Francisco later and graduated from James Lick Middle School and Mission High School there.
Most of his musical career has been spent with Santana, the band he formed in San Francisco in 1967. His music underwent large changes in 1973 when he was introduced to the spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy, by fellow guitarist "Mahavishnu" John McLaughlin. After this he adopted the title "Devadip" which he still uses. In 1998 he formed the Milagro Foundation along with his wife Deborah, which supports disadvantaged children. Later Carlos and Deborah divorced, but the Milagro Foundation is still alive and well.
Other huge influences of Carlos Santana are both Miles Davis (with whom he maintained a big personal connection), and John Coltrane, who unfortunately passed away in 1967.
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Late Show with David Letterman
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Wetten, dass..?
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Oscars
PBS News Weekend
American Music Awards
Rockpalast
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
Star Academy
ECHO-Verleihung
La Bamba
Santana: Greatest Hits - Live at Montreux 2011
Latin Grammy Awards
Soundbreaking
Santana Live at Hammersmith Odeon, December 15th, 1976
Woodstock
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
Live Aid
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Santana: East Berlin 1987
Santana - Montreux Jazz Festival 2015
The World of Nat King Cole
A Grammy Celebration of Latin Music
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Santana
Bobby Parker: Live at Montreux 2004
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Santana: In Concert
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Chasing Trane
Rockpolitik
Live Eighties
Santana - Live in Tokyo Supernatural Tour
The Torch
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
Clarence Gatemouth Brown: Live At Montreux 2004
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
Fandango at the Wall
Ultimate Albums
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
McEnroe
Santana
Carlos
Korla
Rock Prophecies
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
Prachtig 80: Volume 1
Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023
They All Came Out to Montreux
Larry presents: Best of The 80s
Last Days at the Fillmore
Ricky Martin: One Night Only
Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics: Rockin' the Sixties
Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival
Santana Live at Montreux 2011
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