Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana Carlos Augusto Alves Santana Another name Carlos Santana was born in July 20, 1947 in Autisman de Navarro, Jalisco in Mexico, and his father is a musical. At the age of five, he picked up the violin and began to be interested in music. A few years later, after his family moved to Tijuana, he began playing the guitar. And that leads to his greatness. He is fascinated and surpasses his guitar heroes; they are John Lee Hooker, T. Born Walker and B. B. King. In 1961, Santana moved from Mexico to San Francisco, USA.

In 1966, the music of Carlos Santana began in the city of San Francisco, and the premiere of Santana Bruce was held. In the following two years, the Santana Blues band was brought to the historic performance from San Francisco's Fillmore West in 1969 and reached a popularity of 500,000 people at the Woodstock Festival in New York. Carlos Santana and he will come to his new spirit of music and dedication. Always changing, constantly searching and constantly developing - but always clear Carlos. Each new album including 14 gold and 9 platinum reflects Carlos' personal growth and evolution.

In 2016, Carlos Santana reunited with past Santana band members Gregg Rolie, Michael Carabello, Michael Shrieve, Neil Schon and released the album "Santana IV" and the band began a short tour. The entire lineup of this lineup was taken at the House of Blues in Las Vegas and was released as a live album and DVD called LIVE OF HOUSE OF BLUES, about 8 years old. Performers such as Mike Bloomfield and John Lee Hooker. GáborSzabó's jazz / gypsy guitar work in the mid 1960s also had a major impact on Santana's performance. In fact, Szabó's work "Gypsy Queen" was used as the second part of the contract with Santana in 1970, and was used as "Black Magic Woman" by Peter Green which is almost the same guitar. Santana's 2012 instrumental album, Shape Shifter, includes a song called "Mr. Szabo" which is interpreted in the style of GáborSzabó.