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The next two albums duplicate the formula every time increasing his profile and winning over fans.

He has not slowed down since: On a roll from his Woodstock performance his debut album shot up the chart bringing in a high-power fusion of rock and Latin beats. By the end of the decade, Carlos had played to packed houses on a cross-country tour, performed on the venerable Ed Sullivan Show, and made an indelible global mark with Santana's legendary, crowd-detonating performance at the original Woodstock festival in 1969.

Carlos and company emerged as giants of the era-defining Bay Area music scene of the late '60s, and their fame grew far beyond its parameters while their artistry remained true to its free-flying spirit. A few years later, he formed the Santana Blues Band there, and the cool, soulful riffs and rhythms of his Latin-blues based sound found an audience eager for his innovative musical ideas. In 1961, Carlos made the border crossing moving from his native Mexico to San Francisco. It was when his family moved to Tijuana several years later, however, that Santana began his lifelong relationship with the instrument that would make him a musical icon-the guitar. Having evolved and expanded for over four decades, the "Carlos" sound could well be on its way to becoming interplanetary music.īorn in Autlan de Navarro where there's now a street and public square in his name-to the son of a virtuoso Mariachi violinist, Carlos followed in his father's musical footsteps, taking up the violin at the age of five.

A visionary artist with no regards for genre boundaries, Carlos' fluid sound long ago laid claim to the concept of "world music" before the term ever surfaced on pop culture radar. Founded in San Francisco, USA in 1966 - Still active as of 2017Ĭarlos Humberto Santana Barragán - Born 20 July 1947 (Autlan de Novarra, Jalisco, Mexico)īest known the world over for the group that bears his name, Carlos Santana has been reinventing and reshaping the landscape of the known universe's musical culture for close to four decades.