Biography of Carlos Santana

1. Biography of Carlos Santana Albert Lozano Instructor: Craig E. Farrin, Ph.D.Class: Music 1010

2. Table of Content • Biography of Musican Page 1 • Smooth Page 3 (plays when clicked) • History of Music Page 12 • Black Magic Women Page 13 (plays when clicked) • Guide of Music Page 21 • Oye Como Va Page 22 (plays when clicked) • Relative to Symphony Page 26

3. musician Carlos Santana

4. Carlos Santana name at birth was Carlos Augusto Alves Santana, he learned to play the violin at age five and the guitar at age eight. As a young boy Carlos was influenced by Ritchie Valens. At that time there were few Latinos in American rock and pop music. Around the age of 8 he was also influenced by the blues pf B.B. King and John Lee Hooker. He also also credits Jimi Hendrix, Mike Bloomfield and Peter Green as influences too. Carlos family moved from Autlán de Navarro to Tijuana. Carlos graduated from James Lick Middle School and Mission High in 1965. Carlos was accepted into the California State University, Northridge and Humboldt State University, but turned them down. Javier Bátiz, a guitarist from Tijuana, was said to have been Carlos's guitar teacher who taught him to play a different style of guitar solo. After learning Javier Batiz's techniques, Santana would use these techniques for the present and the future.

5. Carlos is a Mexican and American rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s where he found his groove. The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix the music was Dalí like sounds. In San Francisco, he got the chance to see his idol B.B. King perform live. He was also introduced to new musical influences, including jazz and folk music, and witnessed the growing hippie movement that was centered in San Francisco in the 1960s. Carlos spent several years working as a dishwasher in a diner and bussing tables. In 1966, he gained prominence by a series of events all happening on the same day. Santana was a spectator at Bill Graham's Fillmore West. Santana's manager, Stan Marcum, suggested to Graham that Santana join the impromptu band. During the jam session, Santana's guitar playing and solo gained the notice of the audience. During the same year, Santana formed the Santana Blues Band, with fellow street musicians, David Brown and Gregg Rolie. Santana's

6. performed at the Woodstock festival in 1969. Carlos Santana first recorded with his band in 1969. In the 1970’s Santana which pioneered rock, Latin music and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments with timbales and congas not generally used. The combining electrified blues guitar and Afro-Cuban rhythms into a groovy, danceable blend. Santana was a big part of the San Francisco music, and their hit 1970 album Abraxas has been a seller for three decades. It features some of Santana's best known songs, including "Black Magic Woman" and "Oye Como Va." The personnel in the band Santana has changed many times over the years. Teenage San Francisco Bay Area guitar Neal Schon joined the band in 1971 and helped with their third album,

7. Santana III. The band now boasted a powerful dual-lead-guitar act that gave the album a new sound. Enhancing the band's sound further was the support of the group Tower of Power's horn section, Luis Gasca of Malo, and other musicians that added to both percussion and vocals, injecting more energy to the proceedings but tension in the band continued. Along with musical differences, drug use became a problem, and Santana was worried it was affecting the band's performance. Santana was asked to take more control of the band's musical direction by Coke Escovedo, much to the dismay of the band members. Santana met Deborah King, whom he later married in 1973. She is the daughter of the late blues singer and guitarist Saunders King. They have three children: Salvador, Stella and Angelica. Carlos and wife Deborah founded a not-for-profit organization, the Milagro Foundation, which provides financial aid for educational,

8. medical, and other needs. In 1973 Carlos obtained legal rights to his band's name Santana. The band concentrated on producing albums with commercial appeal during the 1980s, changing the popular culture began to reflect in the band's record sales of their latest. The 1983 album revisited Santana's early musical in Tijuana with Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love" and the title cut, Chuck Berry's "Havana Moon". The album's guests included Booker T. Jones, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Willie Nelson and even Santana's father's mariachi orchestra. In 1985, Bill Graham had to pull strings for Santana to convince principal Live Aid concert organizer Bob Geldof to allow their appearance at the festival. The group's high-energy performance proved a top concert draw the world over despite their poor performance on the charts. Santana regained respect in both jazz and rock circles, with Prince and guitarist Kirk Hammett of Metallica as an influence. In 1988,

9. Santana organized a reunion with past members. Which released a 20-year retrospective of the band's accomplishments with Viva Santana! In 1990, Santana left Columbia Records after twenty-two years and signed with Polygram. The following year, he made an appearance on Ottmar Liebert's album Solo Para Ti, on the songs "Reaching out 2 U" and on his own song, "Samba Pa Ti". In 1992, Santana hired jam band Phish as his opening act. Santana's record sales in the 1990s were low. Toward the end of the decade, he was without a contract. Santana continued to work over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence and acclaim in the late 1990s. Carlos has worked with other popular artists, including Buddy Miles, Herbie Hancock, Willie Nelson and Dave Matthews. The result was 1999's Supernatural, which included collaborations with Everlast, Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, Eric Clapton, Lauryn Hill,

10. Wyclef Jean, Cee-Lo, Maná, Dave Matthews, K. C. Porter, J. B. Eckl. Carlos Santana became a naturalized American citizen in 1965. On October 19, 2007, his wife of 34 years, Deborah, filed for divorce citing "irreconcilable differences”. Carlos Santana became engaged to Cindy Blackman, after proposing to her during a concert of the Universal Tone Tour at Tinley Park in Chicago, Illinois on July 9, 2010. The two were married in December 2010. They currently live in Marin County, California. In 2000 Supernatural won nine Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year for "Smooth", and Song of the Year for Thomas and Itaal Shur. Santana's acceptance speeches described his feelings about one's spiritual existence. Later that year at the Latin Grammy awards he won three awards including Record of the Year. In 2001, Santana's guitar skills were featured in Michael Jackson's song "Whatever

11. Happens", from the album Invincible. In 2002, Santana released Shaman, revisiting the Supernatural format of guest artists including P.O.D. and Seal. The album was not as success its predecessor, it produced two radio-friendly hits. "The Game of Love" featuring Michelle Branch, rose to number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent many weeks at the top of the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and "Why Don't You & I" featuring Chad Kroeger from the group Nickelback which reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. "The Game of Love" went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. In early August 2003, Santana was named fifteenth on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". On April 21, 2005, Santana was honored as a BMI Icon at the 12th annual BMI Latin Awards. Santana was the first songwriter designated a BMI Icon at the company's Latin Awards. .

12. History of Music of Carlos Santana Albert Lozano Instructor: Craig E. Farrin, Ph.D. Class: Music 1010

13. musician Carlos Santana

14. Carlos Santana is the Hall of Fame guitarist and bandleader who stayed active in blues and pop for over 40 years. Carlos Santana first recorded with his band Santana in 1969, combining blues guitar and Afro-Cuban rhythms into a groovy, danceable blend. Santana was a big part of the San Francisco scene, and their hit 1970 album Abraxas has been his best seller for three decades. It features some of Santana's best known songs, including "Black Magic Woman" and "Oye Como Va." Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, Latin music and jazz fusion. Santana was approached by several record companies in the late 1960s, the band declined a contract. When they played for half a million people at the legendary Woodstock festival in 1969, they did not have an album out. They performed a piece titled “Soul Sacrifice,” written for this event. Santana was signed to

15. Columbia Records by the end of the year. Santana stayed on the Billboard charts for two years, selling more than four million copies. It over sold the hits “Evil Ways” and “Jingo.” After the much-publicized drug-related deaths of several prominent musicians in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison, Santana began to reassess his life. In the 1970s, Santana continued a wave of success, releasing its second hit album, Abraxas. This featured the classic rock staples “Oye Como Va” and “Black Magic Woman” and went platinum. In January 1972, a concert at Hawaii's Diamond Head Crater, which was recorded for the album, Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! The performance was not very good, but the album managed to achieve gold-record. When Caravanserai did emerge in 1972, the album received praise, but CBS executive Clive Davis warned Santana and the band that it would position as a "Top 40" act. Santana would release four more albums with

16. spiritual themes, recording without his band but collaboration with Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter. Santana did not have another top-ten hit until 1976’s Amigos. In the 1980s, Santana and the band recorded less frequently, only putting out five albums throughout the decade. However, they toured, selling out stadiums and appearing at events like LiveAid, the US Festival, and on the first Amnesty International concert tour. He also helped organize the “Blues for Salvador” concert in Oakland, California, in 1988, which benefitted children in El Salvador. He won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for “Blues for Salvador.” In 1988 he toured with saxophonist Wayne Shorter and also on a tour with the original Santana band members Rolie, Areas, and Shrieve, who had not played together since the early 1970s. In addition, in 1988 he released a 30-song album which featured previous hits along with unreleased studio tracks, live cuts, and sound checks.

17. In 1992, ending his lengthy association with Columbia, Santana signed a deal with Polydor Records which included forming his own label, called Guts & Grace. It was call in Rolling Stone, Santana’s first effort for this label, Milagro, “one of the finest sessions ,” and added, ’The album reaffirms Santana’s position as the bearer for fusion music.” In 1993, he toured with folk icon Bob Dylan, and in 1996, he toured with guitar great Jeff Beck. Though Santana still sold seats, radio stations just seem to play his early hits. He received a star on the Hollywood Rock Walk of Fame in 1996, but it would take him until 1998 to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Santana, working with his band, managed to assemble a collection of some of the biggest talents in the industry, including Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Eagle Eye Cherry, Dave Matthews, Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20, Evertasi, and the Dust Brothers, producers for Beck and the Beastie Boys. Eric

18. Clapton made an appearance. The result was 1999’s Supernatural, reached number one on the Billboard album chart and was a number-one single, “Smooth.” Supernatural also became the most critically acclaimed CDs of the year and sold 14 million copies by 2003. In February of 2000, Santana won eight Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year for “Smooth,” and Album of the Year and Best Rock Album for Supernatural. He also won an American Music Award that year for Best Album. He waited three years to release Shaman, his follow-up album to the phenomenon that was Supernatural. Santana used the blueprint that led them to success with Supernatural, assembling a popular musicians to contribute to the album. Musiq, Seal, Michelle Branch, Dido, Placido Domingo, and many others make appearances on the album. He performed "Black Magic Woman" with the writer of

19. the song, Fleetwood Mac's founder Peter Green. In 2005, Herbie Hancock approached Santana to collaborate on an album using the Supernatural formula. Possibilites was released on August 30, 2005, featuring Carlos Santana and Angélique Kidjo on "Safiatou". Also, in 2005, fellow Latin star Shakira asked Santana to play the soft rock guitar ballad "Illegal" on her second English-language studio album Oral Fixation Vol. 2. Santana's 2005 album All That I Am consists primarily of collaborations with other artists; the first single, the peppy "I'm Feeling You", with Michelle Branch and The Wreckers. Other musicians joining the mix this time included Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Kirk Hammett from Metallica, hip-hop/reggae star Sean Paul and R&B singer Joss Stone. In April and May 2006, Santana toured Europe, where he promoted his son Salvador Santana's band as his opening act. In 2007, Santana appeared with Sheila E ,and José Feliciano, on

20. Gloria Estefan's album 90 Millas, on the single "No Llores". He teamed with Chad Kroeger for the hit single "Into the Night". In 2008, Santana worked with his long- time friend, Marcelo Vieira, on his solo album Marcelo Vieira's Acoustic Sounds. It features tracks such as "For Flavia" and "Across the Grave", featuring heavy melodic riffs by Santana. Carlos Santana performed at the 2009 American Idol Finale with the top 13 finalists, with acts such as KISS, Queen and Rod Stewart. On July 8, 2009, Carlos 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. On July 10, 2009, he also appeared at Philip II Stadium in Skopje, Macedonia. With 2.5 hours concert and 20 000 people, Santana collaborate with other artist make him one of the best know guitarist of his time.

21. Guide of Music of Carlos Santana Albert Lozano Instructor: Craig E. Farrin, Ph.D. Class: Music 1010

22. musician Carlos Santana

23. Began performing in Tijuana, Mexico, 1961; lead guitarist of group Santana, 1966; recording artist with Columbia/CBS, 1969-91; recording artist with Polydor, 1991; founded Guts and Grace record label, 1994; appeared at Fillmore West, 1968, Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, 1969, Altamont Festival, 1969, California Jamil, 1978, LiveAid, 1985, first Amnesty International concert tour, 1986, Woodstock ’94, 1994; released album Supernatural, which won eight Grammy Awards, 1999; released Shaman, 2002. Awards: Latin New York Music Awards, Latin Rock Band of the Year, 1975; Bay Area Music Award (Bammy Award), Best Guitarist, 1976-77, 1980-81, 1994-95; Bammy Award, Best Album for Moonflower, 1977; Bammy Award, Best Group, 1980; Grammy Award, Best Rock Instrumental Performance for Blues for Salvador, 1988; Bammy Award, Musician of the Year, 1978, 1988,

24. 1993; Billboard Century Award for distinguished creative achievement, 1996; received star on Hollywood Rock Walk of Fame, 1996; induction, Bay Area Music Awards Walk of Fame, 1997; Chicano Lifetime Achievement Award, 1997; Nosotros’ Golden Eagle Legend in Music Award, 1997; induction, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 1998; National Council of La Raza, Alma Award, 1999; Grammy Awards, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Best Rock Instrumental Performance, 2000, Best Pop Collaboration, 2003. Carlos Santana, at 52 years of age, has received more acclaim and airplay in the late years than he had received in the previous years of his career as a rock star combined. Michael

25. Jackson had held the record alone in 1983 with eight Grammys. The guitar’/musician it is not the end for this artist but the beginning “Santana”. supernatural source of the success Santana has enjoyed with his album Supernatural? Santana has been candid about the fact that he has had supernatural direction and assistance from a spirit entity, calls it Metatron from the inception of the project. This spirit entity guaranteed and even prophesied the success of the album Supernatural before the project started. Santana told Rolling Stone magazine in the summer of 1999, more than half a year before the showing at the 42nd Annual Grammys.

26. Relative to the symphony, there are several other features in Santana's recording that reflect its African roots. One is the loose feel of the Brahms theme when it is sung, the way it flows. Others are the prominence of the percussion, the way the bass, drums, guitar, vocal, and other parts are layered, the vocal inflections of the guitar playing, and the style and voice quality of the singe