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Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán is a Mexican and American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the rock band Santana. Born and raised in Mexico where he developed his musical background, he rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States with Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and roll and Latin American jazz. Its sound featured his melodic, blues-based lines s…
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“I give my wife all the credit, I give Lauryn Hill all the credit for inviting me to appear with her at the Grammys, I give Eric Clapton all the credit for being so gracious and dignified and elegant. I don”
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Rolling Stone named him the 11th greatest guitarist of all time
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Santana's management company said that he would postpone his next six concerts out of an "abundance of caution for the artist's health"
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But was able to gain consciousness while being helped off the stage
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“abundance of caution for the artist”
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Released album “Live… Under the Sky ’91”.
Santana underwent heart surgery in December 2021.
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In 2020, Santana launched his own brand of cannabis named Mirayo that honors "the spiritual and ancient Latin heritage of the plant."
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Santana launched his own brand of cannabis named Mirayo that honors "the spiritual and ancient Latin heritage of the plant
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Released album “Booger Bear / Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live!”.
Released album “This Is My Guitar”.
Santana collaborated with the Isley Brothers to release the album The Power of Peace on July 28, 2017
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Carlos Santana reunited with past Santana band members Gregg Rolie, Michael Carabello, Michael Shrieve, and Neil Schon, releasing the album Santana IV and embarking with the band on a brief tour
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Santana appeared as a member of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh's band Phil Lesh and Friends at the third annual Lockn' Festival
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Released album “Invitation to Illumination: Live at Montreux 2011”.
Awarded Billboard Spirit of Hope Award (2015).
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Awarded American Book Awards (2015).
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Rolling Stone magazine listed Santana at No
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His memoir The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light was published
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His first-ever Spanish-language album Corazón was released
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There was a public announcement on ultimateclassicrock
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Released album “Live”.
Santana released an album Shape Shifter consisting of mostly instrumental tracks
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Awarded California Hall of Fame (2011).
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Released album “Original Album Classics”.
Three Santana songs were offered as downloadable content (DLC) for the guitar learning software Rocksmith: "Oye Como Va", "Smooth", and "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen"
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Santana proposed to his touring drummer Cindy Blackman on stage during a concert at Tinley Park, Illinois
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Also appeared at Philip II Stadium in Skopje
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Santana appeared at the Athens Olympic Stadium in Athens with his 10-member all-star band as part of his "Supernatural Santana – A Trip through the Hits" European tour
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Awarded Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award (2009).
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Santana was reported to be working with his longtime friend, Marcelo Vieira, on his solo album Acoustic Demos, which was released at the end of the year
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Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2007).
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Santana, along with chef Roberto Santibañez, opened a chain of upscale Mexican restaurants called "Maria Maria"
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Santana appeared, along with Sheila E
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King filed for divorce after 34 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences
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Released ep “Santana”.
Released album “Jungo Live”.
Released album “Carlos Santana Presents Blues at Montreux 2004”.
Released album “Jimi Hendrix & Carlos Santana”.
Released album “The Best Of”.
Featuring Carlos Santana and Angélique Kidjo on "Safiatou"
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Released album “Retro Gold”.
Released album “Playin’ with Carlos”.
Santana was honored as a BMI Icon at the 12th annual BMI Latin Awards
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Fellow Latin star Shakira invited Santana to play the soft rock guitar ballad "Illegal" on her second English-language studio album Oral Fixation, Vol
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Released album “Live at the 1988 Montreux Jazz Festival”.
Herbie Hancock approached Santana to collaborate on an album again using the Supernatural formula
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Awarded Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year (2004).
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Santana was honored as the Person of the Year by the Latin Recording Academy
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Released album “Latin Tropical”.
The album was ranked number 205 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time
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Released album “The Very Best”.
Santana released Shaman, revisiting the Supernatural format of guest artists including Citizen Cope, P
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Released album “The Latin Sounds of Carlos Santana”.
Santana's guitar skills were featured in Michael Jackson's song "Whatever Happens" from the album Invincible
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Released album “Divine Light”.
Released album “Jingo Maniac”.
Released album “19 Greatest Hits”.
Supernatural won nine Grammy Awards (eight for Santana personally), including Album of the Year, Record of the Year for "Smooth", and Song of the Year for its writers Thomas and Itaal Shur
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That he communicates with the angel Metatron
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Santana spoke of his Christian faith and how it helped to guide him through some of the most troubling times in his life
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Released album “The Calling”.
Released album “Santana Brothers”.
Released album “Live in Chicago”.
Santana hired the jam band Phish as his opening act
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A live album Sacred Fire in 1993 and Brothers (a collaboration with his brother Jorge and nephew Carlos Hernandez) in 1994, but sales were relatively poor
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Released album “Doin' It”.
Santana left Columbia Records after twenty-two years and signed with Polygram
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PRS Guitars began making Santana signature model guitars, which Santana has played through their various iterations ever since (see below)
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Santana organized a reunion with past members from the Santana band for a series of concert dates
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Released album “Blues for Salvador”.
With a new album, Beyond Appearances, and two years later with Freedom
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Released album “Havana Moon”.
Started to use a custom-made PRS Custom 24 guitar
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Released album “Live in Tokyo 1981”.
Released album “The Swing of Delight”.
Released album “Oneness: Silver Dreams–Golden Reality”.
And The Swing of Delight in 1980, which featured Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams
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Released album “1976-12-31: Live at the Cow Palace, San Fancisco, CA, USA”.
Rolling Stone ran a second cover story on Santana entitled "Santana Comes Home"
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Released album “Carlos Santana and Buddy Miles - Live! / Love Devotion Surrender”.
Released album “Illuminations”.
Played and endorsed the Gibson L6-S Custom
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Released album “Love Devotion Surrender”.
Santana, having obtained legal rights to the band's name, Santana, formed a new version of the band with Armando Peraza and Chepito Areas on percussion, Doug Rauch on bass, Michael Shrieve on drums, and Tom Coster and Ri
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Released album “Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live!”.
After discovering Chinmoy and Yogananda in 1972, Santana quit marijuana until 1981.
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Santana quit marijuana until 1981
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Santana became interested in the pioneering fusion band the Mahavishnu Orchestra and its guitarist, John McLaughlin
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It marked a strong change in musical direction towards jazz fusion
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In time to complete the third album, Santana III
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At the Woodstock Music and Art Festival before its debut album was even released
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Was chosen along with other musicians to form an ad hoc band to substitute for that of an intoxicated Paul Butterfield to play a Sunday matinee set at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium
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In 1965, Santana became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
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Santana became a naturalized U
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Born 1947-07-20.
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