Their first album, Santana , spurred by a Top 10 single, "Evil Ways," went triple platinum, selling more than four million copies and remaining on the Billboard charts for more than two years. As the band's personnel changed frequently, Santana the band came to be associated almost exclusively with Santana himself—who soon became the only remaining member of the original trio—and his psychedelic guitar riffs.
In addition to his work with his band, Santana recorded and performed with a number of other high-profile musicians, notably drummer Buddy Miles, pianist Herbie Hancock and guitarist John McLaughlin. Along with McLaughlin, Santana became a devoted follower of the spiritual guru Sri Chinmoy during the early s.
Disillusioned with the heady, drug-addled world of s rock music, Santana turned to Chinmoy's teachings of meditation and to a new kind of spiritually-oriented music, marked by a popular jazz album he recorded with McLaughlin entitled Love Devotion Surrender and released in early Throughout the s and early s, Santana and his band released a string of successful albums in their unique style.
Notable projects of this time period included Amigos and Zebop! Nevertheless, Santana earned critical acclaim throughout the decade, particularly for the solo album Blues for Salvador , which earned the guitarist his first Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance. He toured extensively, playing in sold out auditoriums and on tours like LiveAid and Amnesty International Though he ended his association with Chinmoy in , Santana remained intensely spiritual, especially during his live performances.
In , he played at the commemorative concert at Woodstock, 25 years after his band's transformative performance at the original festival.
Under his own label, Guts and Grace, he released a collaborative album, Brothers , with his brother Jorge Santana and nephew Carlos Hernandez, that was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental. Later in the decade, Santana was among the group of artists inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After playing in such an environment for a while, the once hormonal teen Santana found himself sexually desensitized. It was also during this period of scraping by for a living in Tijuana when Santana says he was abused by an American man, who "almost every other day" would buy young Santana food, clothes, and toys, and then take him into the U.
The routine abuse ended after the man saw Santana watching a woman through a window and slapped him. As Santana explained, "I looked at him for the first time for who he was: a very sick person. Carlos Santana moved with his family to San Francisco when he was a teenager. But he didn't want to move, nor attend what he perceived as a boring American junior high. No way. It got even worse when some of his money went missing.
He'd saved up a small fortune, which he'd subsequently earmarked to pay for immigration papers, only to discover that his mother stole it to pay for his sister's dental work. He returned to the strip club world, until a year later when his estranged family forcibly retrieved him.
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In the spring of , Carlos Santana — while fronting the Santana Blues Band and still in high school — had jumped from busking on the streets of San Francisco to opening for the Who.
His work impressed the likes of Steve Miller of the Steve Miller Band and blues legend Howlin' Wolf, and both had invited the Santana band to open for them on tour. Sadly, the group didn't get the chance because year-old Carlos Santana was diagnosed with tuberculosis.
The young guitarist told Rolling Stone that he spent three months in San Francisco General Hospital, enduring regular penicillin treatments. At one point , he developed an aversion to the drugs, and so medical staff started injecting the healing streptomycin into his rear end.
Unable to sit down for weeks, Santana worked with a tutor to finish up his high school education, and he graduated while hospitalized. He switched to guitar at the age of 8, when the family moved to Tijuana. During the late 50s he was playing gigs at clubs and bars with various bands up and down the Tijuana Strip. In he moved to San Francisco, California, joining the family, which moved there the previous year. In he made his debut with the newly formed Santana Blues Band.
The first album, self-titled 'Santana', was released in Santana shot to fame after the legendary performance at Woodstock Music and Art Festival in His surprise appearance was captured in the film 'Woodstock' which vastly increased Santana's popularity.
The psychedelic second album titled 'Abraxas' reached No. Then he collaborated with poet and guru Sri Chinmoy and jazz guitarist John McLaughlin in a spiritual and musically innovative album 'Love, Devotion, Surrender' At that time Santana evolved to become a multi-faceted artist and prepared to re-emerge as a conscientious member of society.
In , Carlos Santana and his wife Deborah started the Milagro Foundation which contributed 1,8 million dollars to help underprivileged youths. It became the Album of the Year, received eleven Grammy awards, and sold over 25 million copies worldwide. Santana continued collaboration with various artists in his next albums, 'Shaman and 'All That I Am' , and also contributed to the album of Herbie Hancock.
During the four decades of his career Santana has been a true multi-cultural artist. He contributed to shaping the concept of "world music" by his experiments with blending many styles and genres of music from a multitude of ethnic sources. His instantly identifiable blend of Latin, salsa, blues, rock, and Afro-Cuban styles has been evolving with the inclusion of elements from jazz, fusion, and world beat.
Santana's high-pitched and clean guitar sound has been coming out of his custom-made PRS guitars. They are currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada. Carlos Santana has won numerous honors both alone and with his band over the course of his illustrious career. Carlos Santana is a well-known musician who rose to prominence in the s as a member of the Santana band. Carlos is regarded by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the greatest guitarists ever to have lived. Perhaps you are familiar with Carlos Santana.
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