Carlos Santana

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Carlos Augusto Santana Alves (* 20th July 1947 in Autlán de Navarro , Jalisco , Mexico ) is an American guitarist of Mexican origin, through his music direction of the skirt Latin to rock music has expanded to include a variant.

Career as a musician

On the Santana tour 1978, in the Groenenoordhallen in Leiden

Carlos Santana received violin lessons from his father at the age of four . In 1955, with the advent of rock 'n' roll , he switched to the guitar. In the same year his family moved to Tijuana , where Carlos Santana played in various clubs.

In 1960 his family moved to San Francisco . Carlos only followed a year later and earned his living in striptease clubs. His role models were among others Gábor Szabó , Bola Sete and Wes Montgomery . When he arrived in San Francisco, he soon met like-minded people and founded the Santana Blues Band in 1965 with Gregg Rolie , Gus Rodriguez, Michael Carabello and Danny Haro . Allegedly, the name was only chosen because the local musicians' union demanded that every band should have a head. Santana was also naturalized in 1965. The band quickly became known in and around San Francisco for their distinctive style, a mixture of rock 'n' roll, blues and Latin American rhythms. They created Latin rock with it .

At the end of September 1968, Santana was invited to the Live Adventures of Al Kooper at Fillmore West on the last evening as a replacement for the sick Mike Bloomfield . With the title Sonny Boy Williamson (Jack Bruce / Paul Jones) Santana's guitar playing was documented live for the first time.

In 1969 the first LP Santana was recorded. The band, which had grown into a sextet , then toured the United States, where they were best known for their appearance at the Woodstock Festival in August . Her very expressive piece Soul Sacrifice was later selected for the Woodstock film . In the same month the debut album was released, which made it into the top 5 of the US album charts, in which it could hold for over two years; it has been sold over two million times. It also includes the top 40 single Jingo (a cover version of a 1959 Nigerian piece recorded by Babatunde Olatunji ) and the top 10 single Evil Ways .

The band's second album, Abraxas (from September 1970), contains the classics Samba Pa Ti , Oye Como Va (by Tito Puente ) (Top 10) and Black Magic Woman (by Peter Green ) (Top 5). This album, which eventually sold 4 million copies, topped the charts. At the end of the year the band was expanded to a septet by the young guitarist Neal Schon (* 1954) .

In September 1971 Santana III was released, on which many guest musicians, such as. B. the percussionist Coke Escovedo , who plays along with all the songs, can be heard. With two million copies sold, this work also reached the top of the charts. The top 10 single Everybody's Everything and the top 20 single No One to Depend On were released . After the tour that accompanied the release of the album, the band separated. Carlos Santana kept the right to the band name.

In 1972, after a tour with Buddy Miles, he released a live album and reunited the band to record the fourth album, Caravanserai . From the old line-up, Shrieve, Areas, Rolie and Schon were there; the latter two left the band the following year to form Journey . The album was released in September, reached the top 5, went platinum and was nominated for a Grammy .

In 1972, Santana developed an interest in guitarist John McLaughlin's fusion band Mahavishnu Orchestra . This introduced him to his guru Sri Chinmoy , who accepted him as a disciple in 1973. Santana was given the name Devadip , which means "lamp, light and eye of God". Santana and McLaughlin recorded Love, Devotion, Surrender with members of the Santana Band and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, enhanced by percussionist Don Alias and organist Larry Young , who both played on Miles Davis ' classic Bitches Brew in 1969 .

More albums followed, but also new members in the band.

In spring 1987 the Santana Band performed together with Buddy Miles with their Freedom concert (title of the album of the same name) in the Palast der Republik in East Berlin , where they were euphorically celebrated. The fans (mostly from the blueser or customer scene ) had to queue up 48 hours in advance to get one of the few freely available tickets. Two thirds of the tickets were reserved for citizens close to the state.

Over time, the band did not succeed, as did Carlos Santana's solo ambitions. Nevertheless, he remained a sought-after guest musician. In 1989 he received his first Grammy for the album Blues for Salvador .

On April 20, 1997, Santana performed live on stage at the Event Center Arena in San José (California) on Prince 's Love-4-One-Another-Charities-Tour . In 1998 Carlos Santana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with other bandmates .

In 1999 he made a comeback with his band . The album Supernatural became a worldwide success and Santana received eight awards at the Grammy Awards in 2000, something that only Michael Jackson had achieved with Thriller in 1984 . After that, Santana received numerous other music awards as a band leader and solo artist. Rob Thomas ( matchbox twenty ), Wyclef Jean , Eagle-Eye Cherry , Everlast , Maná , Lauryn Hill , Dave Matthews and Eric Clapton have worked on Supernatural . This was followed in 2002 by the album Shaman , on which POD , Seal , Dido and Michelle Branch and the opera star Placido Domingo can be heard as guest musicians.

Santana 2003 at a concert in Barcelona

All That I Am was released on October 28, 2005 with musicians like Steven Tyler ( Aerosmith ), Big Boi ( OutKast ), Mary J. Blige , will.i.am , Los Lonely Boys , Sean Paul , Joss Stone , Kirk Hammett ( Metallica ), Robert Randolph and The Wreckers . The first single, Just Feel Better (feat. Steven Tyler), was written by Damon Johnson, currently guitarist for Alice Cooper and frontman of the band Slave To The System . Santana presented this song live in Germany on November 6, 2005 in the Saturday evening show Wetten, dass ..? in front. Instead of Steven Tyler , the singer of the US hard rock band Silvertide , Walt Lafty, took over the vocal part.

On the 2006 European tour, Carlos Santana was accompanied by his son Salvador Santana and his group. In July 2006, when the 40th anniversary of the jazz festival was celebrated in Montreux, Carlos Santana and his band hosted three evenings and presented themed trips into the blues (My Blues is deep) and African music (Beat of my drum) and an evening in which Tower of Power , Beverley Knight , Herbie Hancock and many other artists participated.

The Rolling Stone listed Santana ranked 90 of the 100 greatest players and ranked 20 of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time .

Equipment, technology

Santana prefers electric guitars with two pickups. It used to be Gibson SG with P90 pickups, as can also be seen on the recordings of his first album, later he played a Yamaha SG 2000 and a Yamaha PF3000, and he can also be seen on concert recordings with a Fender Stratocaster . In 1981 he came across PRS . Paul Smith built a model for him according to his specifications, which has already gone through four versions to date. The guitars have a slightly shorter scale length of 24.5 inches instead of the 25 inches customary at PRS and are available to everyone as a custom model from PRS.

As an amplifier he uses an old Mesa Boogie Mark 1 Red Head , two Dumble Overdrives and a Dumble Steel String, all of which are tube amplifiers . He also uses two 12-inch and two 4 × 12-inch boxes from Mesa Boogie .

Santana plays both with her fingers and with a pick (even within a piece). This can be seen and heard very well in the piece Samba pa ti .

Quotes

“Music should express eternity, infinity, immortality. It comes from a higher level of consciousness. It is certainly not show business or entertainment. "

- Carlos Santana

Private

Between 1973 and 1982 Santana joined the Indian guru Sri Chinmoy on a spiritual quest and found his life motto here: We are all one .

Santana married Deborah King in 1973, the daughter of blues musician Saunders King. They have three children together; Salvador (* 1983), Stella (* 1984) and Angelica (* 1989). With his wife, Santana became involved in a Christian community from the early 1990s . The marriage was divorced in 2007 after 34 years.

Together they had also been involved in the social field for decades . In the mid-1990s, they set up the Milagro Foundation, a non-profit foundation that works to ensure that disadvantaged people receive an education. They have received numerous honors for their commitment. For example, the San Francisco city ​​council made June 6th, 1987, Santana Day .

On July 9, 2010, Santana proposed marriage to Cindy Blackman at a concert on his Universal Tone Tour in Chicago . The wedding took place on December 21st in Maui .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
Santana
1969 Santana DE12 (32 weeks)
DE
- - UK34 (9 weeks)
UK
US4th
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(108 weeks)US
Sales: + 2,000,000; 150th place in the Rolling Stone 500
First published: August 1969
1970 Abraxas DE4 (52 weeks)
DE
- - UK7th
gold
gold

(51 weeks)UK
US1
Quintuple platinum
× 5
Quintuple platinum

(88 weeks)US
Sales: + 5,700,000; 205th place in the Rolling Stone 500; Grammy Hall of Fame
First published: September 1970
1971 Santana III DE6 (36 weeks)
DE
- - UK6 (16 weeks)
UK
US1
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(39 weeks)US
First published: September 1971
Sales: +2,000,000
1972 Caravanserai DE13 (20 weeks)
DE
- - UK6 (11 weeks)
UK
US8th
platinum
platinum

(32 weeks)US
First published: October 11, 1972
Sales: +1,150,000
1973 Welcome DE29 (16 weeks)
DE
AT9 (4 weeks)
AT
- UK8th
silver
silver

(6 weeks)UK
US25th
gold
gold

(21 weeks)US
First published: November 9, 1973
Sales: +630,000
1974 Borboletta DE28 (8 weeks)
DE
AT9 (4 weeks)
AT
- UK18th
silver
silver

(5 weeks)UK
US20th
gold
gold

(19 weeks)US
First published: October 1974
Sales: + 575,000
1976 Amigos DE8 (40 weeks)
DE
AT9 (4 weeks)
AT
- UK13
silver
silver

(9 weeks)UK
US10
gold
gold

(26 weeks)US
First published: March 26, 1976
Sales: + 830,000
1977 festival DE15 (16 weeks)
DE
AT9 (12 weeks)
AT
- UK27
silver
silver

(6 weeks)UK
US27
gold
gold

(19 weeks)US
First published: January 1977
Sales: + 675,000
Moonflower DE16
gold
gold

(26 weeks)DE
AT10 (16 weeks)
AT
- UK7th
gold
gold

(27 weeks)UK
US10
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(24 weeks)US
First published: October 1977
Sales: + 2,810,000
1978 Inner Secrets DE11 (20 weeks)
DE
AT19 (12 weeks)
AT
- UK17th
gold
gold

(16 weeks)UK
US27
gold
gold

(33 weeks)US
First published: October 1978
Sales: + 757,500
1979 marathon DE40 (4 weeks)
DE
- - UK28
silver
silver

(5 weeks)UK
US25th
gold
gold

(22 weeks)US
First published: September 1979
Sales: + 660,000
1981 Zebop! DE21 (21 weeks)
DE
AT12 (6 weeks)
AT
- UK33 (4 weeks)
UK
US9
platinum
platinum

(32 weeks)US
First published: April 1981
Sales: + 1,100,000
1982 Shangó DE14 (12 weeks)
DE
AT9 (6 weeks)
AT
- UK35 (7 weeks)
UK
US22nd
gold
gold

(23 weeks)US
First published: August 1982
Sales: + 500,000
1985 Beyond Appearances DE20 (12 weeks)
DE
AT24 (4 weeks)
AT
CH9 (9 weeks)
CH
UK58 (3 weeks)
UK
US50 (21 weeks)
US
First published: February 1985
1987 Freedom DE23 (15 weeks)
DE
AT16 (8 weeks)
AT
CH8 (9 weeks)
CH
- US95 (11 weeks)
US
First published: February 1987
1990 Spirits Dancing in the Flesh DE34 (10 weeks)
DE
AT28 (3 weeks)
AT
CH19 (9 weeks)
CH
UK68 (1 week)
UK
US85 (11 weeks)
US
First published: June 1990
1992 Milagro DE47 (8 weeks)
DE
AT31 (1 week)
AT
CH11 (9 weeks)
CH
- US102 (13 weeks)
US
First published: May 1992
1999 Supernatural DE1
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(85 weeks)DE
AT1
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(61 weeks)AT
CH1
Quadruple platinum
× 4
Quadruple platinum

(82 weeks)CH
UK1
Triple platinum
× 3
Triple platinum

(64 weeks)UK
US1
Diamond + quintuple platinum
Diamond + quintuple platinum
× 5
Diamond + quintuple platinum

(103 weeks)US
Sales: + 30,000,000; two Grammy Awards (album and rock album of the year)
First released: January 15, 1999
2002 Shaman DE2
platinum
platinum

(20 weeks)DE
AT4th
platinum
platinum

(17 weeks)AT
CH1
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(24 weeks)CH
UK15th
gold
gold

(10 weeks)UK
US1
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(56 weeks)US
First published: October 22, 2002
Sales: + 3,390,811
2005 All That I Am DE6 (13 weeks)
DE
AT6th
gold
gold

(11 weeks)AT
CH5
gold
gold

(15 weeks)CH
UK36 (3 weeks)
UK
US2
gold
gold

(20 weeks)US
First published: October 31, 2005
Sales: + 670,000
2010 Guitar Heaven - The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time DE10 (8 weeks)
DE
AT5 (7 weeks)
AT
CH5 (8 weeks)
CH
UK15 (5 weeks)
UK
US5 (18 weeks)
US
First published: September 21, 2010
Sales: + 175,500
2012 Shape shifter DE19 (5 weeks)
DE
AT29 (5 weeks)
AT
CH8 (6 weeks)
CH
UK49 (1 week)
UK
US16 (5 weeks)
US
First published: May 14, 2012
2014 Corazón DE12 (5 weeks)
DE
AT5 (5 weeks)
AT
CH14 (8 weeks)
CH
UK58 (1 week)
UK
US9
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(10 weeks)US
First published: May 6, 2014
Sales: + 150,000
2016 Santana IV DE5 (10 weeks)
DE
AT11 (8 weeks)
AT
CH7 (7 weeks)
CH
UK4 (3 weeks)
UK
US5 (6 weeks)
US
First published: April 15, 2016
2019 Africa Speaks DE6 (8 weeks)
DE
AT9 (6 weeks)
AT
CH6 (10 weeks)
CH
UK35 (1 week)
UK
US3 (3 weeks)
US
First published: June 7, 2019
Carlos Santana
1979 Oneness: Silver Dreams - Golden Reality - - - UK55 (4 weeks)
UK
US87 (9 weeks)
US
First published: March 1979 under the stage name Devadip
1980 The Swing of Delight DE40 (5 weeks)
DE
AT14 (4 weeks)
AT
- UK65 (2 weeks)
UK
US65 (10 weeks)
US
First published: August 1980 as Devadip Carlos Santana
1983 Havana Moon DE21 (12 weeks)
DE
AT18 (2 weeks)
AT
- UK84 (3 weeks)
UK
US31 (17 weeks)
US
First published: April 1983
1987 Blues for Salvador - - - - US195 (1 week)
US
First published: October 1987

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literature

  • Carlos Santana, with Ashley Kahn and Hal Miller: The Sound of the World. Mein Leben , Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3868835618 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Carlos Santana  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Welcome to the Pacific Coast Immigration Museum . learn.pacificcoastimmigration.org. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
  2. Tripticon: Carlos Santana from May 28, 2018. (German)
  3. Santana in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  4. 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 8, 2017 .
  5. 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 18, 2015, accessed August 8, 2017 .
  6. No Beats Everything Grove - New album by Carlos Santana
  7. ^ Carlos Santana's wife of 34 years files for divorce . ( Memento of December 16, 2008 on the Internet Archive ) CNN , November 2, 2007
  8. ^ Peace and (real) love in the air at Santana, Winwood performances . ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Chicago Tribune , July 11, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chicagotribune.com
  9. ^ Carlos Santana and Cindy Blackman are married . Los Angeles Times , January 5, 2011
  10. Chart sources: DE AT CH UK1 UK2 US
  11. Viva Santana! In: Deccan Herald. November 18, 2012, accessed January 16, 2017 .