(born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican-American rock guitarist. Santana
became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana,
which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured
his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African
rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not
generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms
over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity
and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. Rolling Stone named Santana
number 15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in
2003. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and 3 Latin Grammy Awards.
Biography
Early life
Santana
was born in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico. His father was a
mariachi violinist, and Carlos learned to play the violin at age five
and the guitar at age eight. Young Carlos was heavily influenced by
Ritchie Valens at a time when there were very few Latinos in American
rock and pop music. The family moved from Autlán de Navarro to Tijuana,
the border city between Mexico and California, and then San Francisco.
Carlos stayed in Tijuana but joined his family in San Francisco later
and graduated from James Lick Middle School and Mission High School
there. He graduated from Mission High in 1965. Javier Bátiz, a famous
guitarist from Tijuana Mexico, said to have been Carlos's guitar teacher
who taught him to play a different style of guitar soloing. After
learning Batiz's techniques, Santana would make them his own as well.
In
San Francisco, he got the chance to see his idols, most notably B.B.
King, perform live. He was also introduced to a variety of new musical
influences, including jazz and folk music, and witnessed the growing
hippie movement centered in San Francisco in the 1960s. After several
years spent working as a dishwasher in a diner and busking for spare
change, Santana decided to become a full-time musician; in 1966, he
formed the Santana Blues Band, with fellow street musicians, David Brown
and Gregg Rolie (bassist and keyboard player, respectively).
With
their highly original blend of Latin-infused rock, jazz, blues, salsa,
and African rhythms, the band (which quickly became known simply as
Santana) gained an immediate following on the San Francisco strip club.
The band's early success, capped off by a memorable performance at
Woodstock in 1969, led to a recording contract with Columbia Records,
then run by Clive Davis.
Personal life
On October 19, 2007, his wife of 34 years, Deborah, filed for divorce citing "irreconcilable differences".
On
July 9, 2010, Santana announced his plans to wed drummer Cindy
Blackman, at a Santana show in Tinley Park, Illinois by proposing
onstage in the middle of a set, right after Blackman played a drum
solo.
Santana
Santana was signed by CBS Records
and went into the studio to record their first album. They were not
satisfied with the release and decided changes needed to be made. This
resulted in the dismissal of Bob Livingston. Santana replaced him with
Mike Shrieve, who had a strong background in both jazz and rock. Marcus
Malone was forced to quit the band due to personal problems, and the
band re-enlisted Michael Carabello. Carabello brought with him
percussionist Jose Chepito Areas, who was already well-known in his
country, Nicaragua, and, with his skills and professional experience,
was a major contributor to the band.
Bill
Graham, who had been a fan of the band from the start, convinced the
promoters of the Woodstock Music and Art Festival to let them appear
before their first album was even released. They were one of the
surprises of the festival; their set was legendary and, later, the
exposure of their eleven-minute instrumental "Soul Sacrifice" in the
Woodstock film and soundtrack albums vastly increased Santana's
popularity. Graham also gave the band some key advice to record the
Willie Bobo song "Evil Ways", as he felt it would get them radio
airplay. Their first album, simply titled Santana, became a huge hit,
reaching number four on the U.S. album charts, and the catchy single
"Evil Ways" reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.
In
1970, the group reached its early commercial peak with their second
album, Abraxas, which reached number one on the album charts and went on
to sell over four million copies. Instrumental in the production of the
album was pianist Alberto Gianquinto, who advised the group to stay
away from lengthy percussion jams and concentrate on tighter song
structures. The innovative Santana musical blend made a number-four hit
out of the English band Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman" and a
number-thirteen hit out of salsa legend Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va".
However,
Woodstock and the band's sudden success put pressure on the group,
highlighting the different musical directions in which Rolie and Santana
were starting to go. Rolie, along with some of the other band members,
wanted to emphasize a basic hard rock sound which had established the
band in the first place. Santana on the other hand was growing musically
beyond his love of blues and rock and wanted more jazzy, ethereal
elements in the music, which were influenced by his fascination with
Miles Davis and John Coltrane, as well as his growing interest in
spirituality and meditation. To further complicate matters, Chepito
Areas was stricken with a near-fatal brain hemorrhage, and Santana
wanted the band to continue performing by finding a temporary
replacement (first Willie Bobo, then Coke Escovedo), while others in the
band, especially Michael Carabello, felt it was wrong to perform
publicly without Areas. Cliques formed, and the band started to
disintegrate.
Teenage San
Francisco Bay Area guitar prodigy Neal Schon was asked to join the band
in 1971, though, at the time, he was also invited by Eric Clapton to
join Derek and the Dominos. Choosing Santana, he joined in time to
complete the third album, Santana III. The band now boasted a powerful
dual-lead-guitar act that gave the album a tougher sound. The sound of
the band was also helped by the return of a recuperated Chepito Areas
and the assistance of Coke Escovedo in the percussion section. Enhancing
the band's sound further was the support of popular Bay Area group
Tower of Power's horn section, Luis Gasca of Malo, and a number of
friends who helped with percussion and vocals, injecting more energy to
the proceedings. Santana III was another success, reaching number one on
the album charts, selling two million copies, and yielding the hits
"Everybody's Everything" and "No One to Depend On".
But
tension in the band continued. Along with musical differences, drug use
became a problem, and Santana was deeply worried it was affecting the
band's performance. Coke Escovedo encouraged Santana to take more
control of the band's musical direction, much to the dismay of some of
the others who thought that the band and its sound was a collective
effort. Also, financial irregularities were exposed while under the
management of Stan Marcum, whom Bill Graham criticized as being
incompetent. Growing resentments between Santana and Michael Carabello
over lifestyle issues resulted in his departure on bad terms. James
Mingo Lewis was hired at the last minute as a replacement at a concert
in New York City. David Brown later left due to substance abuse
problems. A South American tour was cut short in Lima, Peru, due to
student protests against U.S. governmental policies and unruly fans. The
madness of the tour convinced Santana that changes needed to be made in
the band and in his life.
In
January 1972, Santana, Neal Schon and Coke Escovedo joined former Band
of Gypsys drummer Buddy Miles for a concert at Hawaii's Diamond Head
Crater, which was recorded for a live album. The performance was erratic
and uneven, but the album managed to achieve gold-record status on the
weight of Santana's popularity.
Caravanserai
In
early 1972, Santana and the remaining members of the band started
working on their fourth album, Caravanserai. During the studio sessions,
Santana and Michael Shrieve brought in other musicians: percussionists
James Mingo Lewis and Latin-Jazz veteran, Armando Peraza replacing
Michael Carabello, and bassists Tom Rutley and Doug Rauch replacing
David Brown. Also assisting on keyboards were Wendy Haas and Tom Coster.
With the unsettling influx of new players in the studio, Gregg Rolie
and Neal Schon decided that it was time to leave after the completion of
the album, even though both made spectacular contributions to the
session. Rolie left and went home to Seattle, opening a restaurant with
his father, and later became a founding member of Journey (which Schon
would later join as well).
When
Caravanserai did emerge in 1972, it marked a strong change in musical
direction towards jazz fusion. The album received critical praise, but
CBS executive Clive Davis warned Santana and the band that it would
sabotage the band's position as a Top Forty act. Nevertheless, over the
years, the album would achieve platinum status. The difficulties Santana
and the band went through during this period were chronicled in Ben
Fong-Torres' Rolling Stone cover story "The Resurrection of Carlos
Santana".
Around this time,
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. Together with wife
Deborah, Santana founded a not-for-profit organization, the Milagro
Foundation, which provides financial aid for educational, medical, and
other needs.
Spiritual journey
In
1972, Santana became a huge fan of the pioneering fusion band The
Mahavishnu Orchestra and its guitarist John McLaughlin. Aware of
Santana's interest in meditation, McLaughlin introduced Santana and
Deborah to his guru, Sri Chinmoy. Chinmoy accepted them as disciples in
1973. Santana was given the name "Devadip" – meaning "The lamp, light
and eye of God." Santana and McLaughlin recorded an album together,
Love, Devotion, Surrender with members of Santana and the Mahavishnu
Orchestra, along with percussionist Don Alias and organist Larry Young,
who both had made appearances on Miles Davis' classic Bitches Brew in
1969.
In 1973, Santana, having
obtained legal rights to the band's name, formed a new version of
Santana, with Armando Peraza and Chepito Areas on percussion, Doug Rauch
on bass, Michael Shrieve on drums, and Tom Coster and Richard Kermode
on keyboards. Santana was later able to recruit jazz vocalist Leon
Thomas for a tour of Japan, which was recorded for the live, sprawling,
high-energy fusion album Lotus. CBS records would not allow its release
unless the material was condensed. Santana did not agree to those terms,
and the album was available in the U.S. only as an expensive, imported,
three-record set. The group later went into the studio and recorded
Welcome, which further reflected Santana's interests in jazz fusion and
his commitment to the spiritual life of Sri Chinmoy.
Shifting styles in the 1970s
A
collaboration with John Coltrane's widow, Alice Coltrane,
Illuminations, followed. The album delved into avant-garde esoteric free
jazz, Eastern Indian and classical influences with other ex-Miles Davis
sidemen Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland. Soon after, Santana replaced
his band members again. This time Kermode, Thomas and Rauch departed
from the group and were replaced by vocalist Leon Patillo (later a
successful Contemporary Christian artist) and returning bassist David
Brown. He also recruited soprano saxophonist, Jules Broussard to the
lineup. The band recorded one studio album Borboletta, which was
released in 1974. Drummer Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler later joined the band as
a replacement for Michael Shrieve, who left to pursue a solo career.
By
this time, the Bill Graham's management company had assumed the affairs
of the group. Graham was critical of Santana's direction into jazz and
felt he needed to concentrate on getting Santana back into the charts
with the edgy, street-wise ethnic sound that had made them famous.
Santana himself was seeing that the group's direction was alienating
many fans. Although the albums and performances were given good reviews
by critics in jazz and jazz fusion circles, sales had plummeted.
Santana
along with Tom Coster, producer David Rubinson, and Chandler formed yet
another version of Santana, adding vocalist Greg Walker. The 1976 album
Amigos, which featured the songs "Dance, Sister, Dance" and "Let It
Shine", had a strong funk and Latin sound. The album also received
considerable airplay on FM album-oriented rock stations with the
instrumental "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" and re-introduced
Santana back into the charts. Rolling Stone Magazine ran a second cover
story on Santana entitled "Santana Comes Home".
The
albums conceived through the late 1970s followed the same formula,
although with several lineup changes. Among the personnel who came and
left the band was percussionist Raul Rekow, who joined in early 1977 and
remains to this day. Most-notable of the band's commercial efforts of
this era was a version of the 1960s Zombies hit, "She's Not There", on
the 1977 album Moonflower.
The
relative success of the band's albums in this era allowed Santana to
pursue a solo career funded by CBS. First, Oneness, Silver Dreams,
Golden Reality in 1979 and The Swing of Delight in 1980, which featured
some of his musical heroes: Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter
and Tony Williams from Miles Davis' legendary 1960s quintet.
The
pressures and temptations of being a high-profile rock musician and
requisites of the spiritual lifestyle which guru Sri Chinmoy and his
followers demanded, were great sources of conflict to Santana's
lifestyle and marriage. He was becoming increasingly disillusioned with
what he thought was Chinmoy's unreasonable rules imposed on his life, in
particular, his refusal to allow Santana and Deborah to start a family.
He felt too that his fame was being used to increase the guru's
visibility. Santana and Deborah eventually ended their relationship with
Chinmoy in 1982.
The 1980s
More
radio-pleasing singles followed from Santana and the band. "Winning" in
1981 and "Hold On" (a remake of Canadian artist Ian Thomas' song) in
1982 both reached the top twenty. After his break with Sri Chinmoy,
Santana went into the studio to record another solo album with Keith
Olson and legendary R&B producer Jerry Wexler. The 1983 album
revisited Santana's early musical experiences 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. Santana again paid tribute to his early rock roots by doing
the film score to La Bamba, which was based on the tragically short life
of rock and roll legend Ritchie Valens and starred Lou Diamond Philips.
Although
the band had concentrated on trying to produce albums with commercial
appeal during the 1980s, changing tastes in popular culture began to
reflect in the band's sagging record sales of their latest effort Beyond
Appearances. In 1985, Bill Graham had to once again pull strings for
Santana to convince principal Live Aid concert organizer Bob Geldof to
allow the band to appear at the festival. The group's high-energy
performance proved why they were still a top concert draw the world over
despite their poor performance on the charts. Santana retained a great
deal of respect in both jazz and rock circles, with Prince and guitarist
Kirk Hammett of Metallica citing him as an influence.
The
band Santana returned in 1986 with a new album Freedom. Buddy Milles,
who was trying to revive his music career after spending much of the
late 1970s and early 1980s incarcerated for drug charges, returned for
lead vocals. His onstage presence provided a dose of charisma to the
show; but, once again, the sales of the album fell flat.
Growing
weary of trying to appease record company executives with formulaic hit
records, Santana took great pleasure in jamming and making guest
appearances with notables such as the jazz fusion group Weather Report,
jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, Blues legend John Lee Hooker, Frank Franklin,
Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid, and West African singer Salif
Keita. He and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead later recorded and
performed with Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji, who conceived one of
Santana's famous 1960s drum jams, "Jingo". In 1988, Santana organized a
reunion with past members from the Santana band for a series of concert
dates. CBS records released a 20-year retrospective of the band's
accomplishments with Viva Santana.
That
same year Santana formed an all-instrumental group featuring jazz
legend Wayne Shorter on tenor and soprano sax. The group also included
Patrice Rushen on keyboards, Alphonso Johnson on bass, Armando Peraza
and Chepito Areas on percussion, and Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler on drums.
They toured briefly and received much acclaim from the music press, who
compared the effort with the era of Caravanserai. Santana released
another solo record, Blues for Salvador, which won a Grammy Award for
Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
In
1990, Santana left Columbia Records after twenty-two years and signed
with Polygram. The following year, he made a guest appearance on Ottmar
Liebert's album Solo Para Ti, on the songs "Reaching out 2 U" and on a
cover of his own song, "Samba Pa Ti". In 1992, Santana hired jam band
Phish as his opening act. He remains close to the band today, especially
to guitarist Trey Anastasio.
Return to commercial success
Santana's
record sales in the 1990s were very low. Toward the end of the decade,
he was without a contract. However, Arista Records' Clive Davis, who had
worked with Santana at Columbia Records, signed him and encouraged him
to record a star-studded album with mostly younger artists. The result
was 1999's Supernatural, which included collaborations with Everlast,
Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, Eric Clapton, Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean,
Cee-Lo, Maná, Dave Matthews, K. C. Porter, J. B. Eckl, and others.
However,
the lead single was what grabbed the attention of both fans and the
music industry. "Smooth", a dynamic cha-cha stop-start number co-written
and sung by Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, was laced throughout with
Santana's guitar fills and runs. The track's energy was immediately
apparent on radio, and it was played on a wide variety of station
formats. "Smooth" spent twelve weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot
100, becoming in the process the last #1 single of the 1990s. The music
video, set on a hot barrio street, was also very popular. Supernatural
reached number one on the US album charts and the follow-up single,
"Maria Maria", featuring the R&B duo The Product G&B, also hit
number one, spending ten weeks there in the spring of 2000. Supernatural
eventually sold over 15 million copies in the United States, making it
Santana's biggest sales success by far.
Carlos
Santana, alongside the classic Santana lineup of their first two
albums, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. He
performed "Black Magic Woman" with the writer of the song, Fleetwood
Mac's founder Peter Green. Green was inducted the same night.
In
2000 Supernatural won nine Grammy Awards (eight for Santana
personally), 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 music's place in 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 Happens", from
the album Invincible.
In 2002,
Santana released Shaman, revisiting the Supernatural format of guest
artists including P.O.D. and Seal. Although the album was not the
runaway success its predecessor had been, 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" written
by and featuring Chad Kroeger from the group Nickelback (the original
and a remix with Alex Band from the group The Calling were combined
towards chart performance) 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 August 2003, Santana was named fifteenth on Rolling Stone magazine's "List of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
In
2005, Herbie Hancock approached Santana to collaborate on an album
again using the Supernatural formula. Possibilities was released on
August 30, 2005, featuring Carlos Santana and Angélique Kidjo on
"Safiatou". Also, in 2005, the fellow Latin star Shakira invited Santana
to play soft rock guitar ballad Illegal on her second English-language
studio album Oral Fixation Vol. 2.
Santana's
2005 album All That I Am consisting primarily of collaborations with
other artists; the first single, the peppy "I'm Feeling You", was again
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, along with Sheila E. and José Feliciano, on
Gloria Estefan's album 90 Millas, on the single "No Llores". He also
teamed again with Chad Kroeger for the hit single "Into the Night".
In
2008, Santana started working with his long-time friend, Marcelo
Vieira, on his solo album Marcelo Vieira's Acoustic Sounds, which is due
to be released at the end of the year. It features tracks such as "For
Flavia" and "Across the Grave", the latter featuring heavy melodic riffs
by Santana.
Carlos Santana
performed at the 2009 American Idol Finale with the top 13 finalists,
which starred many 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. With 2.5 hours concert and 20
000 people, Santana appeared for the first time in that region.
"Supernatural Santana – A Trip through the Hits" is currently playing at
The Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas, where it will play through the end
2009.
Santana is featured as a
playable character in the music video game Guitar Hero 5. A live
recording of his song "No One To Depend On" is included in game, which
was released on September 1, 2009.
Carlos
recently opened a chain of upscale Mexican restaurants called "Maria
Maria". It is a combined effort with Chef Roberto Santibanez. They are
located in Tempe Arizona, Mill Valley (now closed), Walnut Creek, and
Danville, California, Austin, Texas, and Boca Raton Florida.
Influences
Around the age of 8, Santana
"fell under the influence" of blues performers like B.B. King and John
Lee Hooker. He also credits Jimi Hendrix and Mike Bloomfield as
important influences; he considered Bloomfield a direct mentor, writing
of a key meeting with Bloomfield in San Francisco in the foreword he
wrote to a biography of Bloomfield, Michael Bloomfield: If You Love
These Blues-An Oral History in 2000.
Equipment
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Guitars
Santana
played a red Gibson SG Special with P-90 pickups at the Woodstock
festival. From 1976 until 1982, his main guitar was a Yamaha SG 175B and
sometimes a white Gibson SG Custom with 3 open coil pick-ups. In 1982
he started to use a custom made PRS guitar, which became his main
instrument around 1988. Santana currently uses a Santana II model guitar
using PRS Santana III pickups with nickel covers and a tremolo, with
.009-.042 gauge D'Addario strings. Santana's guitar necks and fretboards
are constructed out of a single solid piece of Brazilian Rosewood,this
helps create the smooth, singing, glass-like tone that he is famous for.
Carlos Santana also uses a classical guitar, the Alvarez Yairi CY127CE with Alvarez tension nylon strings.
Effects
For
the distinctive Santana electric guitar sound, Santana does not use
many effects pedals. His PRS guitar is connected to a Mu-Tron wah wah
pedal (or, more recently, a Dunlop 535Q wah) and a T-Rex Replica delay
pedal, then through a customized Jim Dunlop amp switcher which in turn
is connected to the different amps or cabinets.
Previous setups include an Ibanez Tube Screamer right after the guitar.
In the song "Stand Up" from the album Marathon, Santana uses a Heil talk box in the guitar solo.
Amplifiers
The
Santana lead guitar tone is produced by a humbucker equipped guitar
(Gibson/Yamaha/PRS) into a small but effective preamp (consisting of
Gain & Master Volume controls) for the Mesa Boogie [ref. as above].
He also literally put the Boogie in Mesa Boogie: 'Santana exclaimed to
Smith, "Shit, man. That little thing really Boogies!" It was this
statement that brought the Boogie name to fruition.'
Specifically,
Santana combines a Mesa/Boogie Mark I head running through a Boogie
cabinet with Altec 417-8H (or recently JBL E120s) speakers, and a Dumble
Overdrive Reverb and/or a Dumble Overdrive Special running through a
Brown or Marshall 4x12 cabinet with Celestion G12M "Greenback" speakers,
depending on the desired sound. Shure KSM-32 microphones are used to
pick up the sound, going to the PA. Additionally, a Fender Cyber-Twin
Amp is mostly used at home.
Discography
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Albums with the band Santana
Santana discography
Santana (1969) US: 2x Multi-Platinum
Abraxas (1970) US: 5x Multi-Platinum
Santana III (1971) US: 2x Multi-Platinum
Caravanserai (1972) US: Platinum
Welcome (1973) US: Gold
Lotus (1974) (Live)
Borboletta (1974) US: Gold
Amigos (1976) US: Gold
Festival (1977) US: Gold
Moonflower (1977) (Live/studio) US: 2x Multi-Platinum
Inner Secrets (1978) US: Gold
Marathon (1979) US: Gold
Zebop! (1981) US: Platinum
Shango (1982) US: Gold
Beyond Appearances (1985)
Freedom (1987)
Viva Santana! (1988) (Live/studio compilation)
Spirits Dancing in the Flesh (1990) (compilation)
Milagro (1992)
Sacred Fire: Live in South America (1993) (Live)
Live at the Fillmore '68 (1997) (Live)
Supernatural (1999) US: 15x Multi-Platinum
The Essential Santana (2002) (compilation)
Shaman (2002) US: 2x Multi-Platinum
All That I Am (2005) US: Gold
Ultimate Santana (2007) (compilation)
The Woodstock Experience (2009) (Live)
[edit]Albums as a solo artist or in collaborations
Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! (1972; with Buddy Miles) US: Platinum
Love Devotion Surrender (1973; with John McLaughlin) US: Gold
Illuminations (1974; with Alice Coltrane)
Oneness: Silver Dreams, Golden Reality (1979)
The Swing of Delight (1980)
Havana Moon (1983; with Booker T & the MGs, Willie Nelson, and The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
This Is This! (1986; with Weather report)
Blues for Salvador (1987)
Santana Brothers (1994; C.S. with Jorge Santana & Carlos Hernandez)
Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter - Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1988 (2007)
Guitar Heaven: Santana Performs the Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time (2010)
Unofficial releases
Samba Pa Ti (1988)
Persuasion (1989)
Latin Tropical (1990)
Santana (1990)
The Big Jams (1991)
Santana Jam (1994)
With a Little Help from My Friends (1994)
Jin-Go-Lo-Ba (1994)
Soul Sacrifice (1995)
Santana Live (????)
Jingo and more famous tracks (????)
Singles
1969: "Jingo" #56 US
1969: "Evil Ways" #9 US
1971: "Black Magic Woman" #4 US
1971: "Oye Como Va" #13 US
1971: "Everybody's Everything" #12 US
1972: "No One to Depend On" #36 US
1974: "Samba Pa Ti" #27 UK
1976: "Let It Shine" #77 US
1977: "She's Not There" #27 US, #11 UK
1978: "Well All Right" #69 US
1979: "One Chain (Don't Make No Prison)" #59 US
1979: "Stormy" #32 US
1980: "You Know That I Love You" #35 US
1981: "Winning" #17 US
1981: "The Sensitive Kind" #56 US
1982: "Hold On" #15 US
1982: "Nowhere to Run" #66 US
1985: "Say It Again" #46 US
1999: "Put Your Lights On" (featuring Everlast)
1999: "Smooth" (featuring Rob Thomas) #1 US, #3 UK (charted in 2000)
2000: "Maria Maria" (featuring The Product G&B) #1 US, #6 UK
2002: "The Game Of Love" (featuring Michelle Branch) #5 US, #16 UK
2003: "Nothing at All" (featuring Musiq Soulchild)
2003: "Feels Like Fire" (featuring Dido) #26 NZ
2003: "Why Don't You & I" (featuring Chad Kroeger) #8 US
2005: "I'm Feeling You" (featuring Michelle Branch) #55 US
2005: "Just Feel Better" (featuring Steven Tyler) #8 AUS
2006: "Cry Baby Cry" (featuring Sean Paul and Joss Stone) #71 UK, #15 CDN
2006: "Illegal" (Shakira featuring Carlos Santana) #4 ITA, #11 GER
2007: "No Llores" (Gloria Estefan featuring Carlos Santana, José Feliciano and Sheila E.)
2007: "Into the Night" (featuring Chad Kroeger) #2 CAN, #5 SA, #5 Italy, #19 Germany, #26 US
2008: "This Boy's Fire" (featuring Jennifer Lopez with Baby Bash)
2008: "Fuego en el Fuego" (Eros Ramazzotti featuring Carlos Santana) #19 Spain
Note: The singles Smooth, Maria Maria, and Into The Night have each been certified Platinum by the RIAA.
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