Born July 20, 1947in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico with a father of
musical arts, known simply as Carlos Santana or Santana, is a Grammy Award-winning
Mexican-born American Latin rock musician and guitarist.
He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, the
Santana Blues Band, going mostly under the title "Santana," which
created a highly successful blend of salsa, rock, blues, and jazz fusion.
Their sound featured his often high-pitched and clean guitar lines set
against Latin American instrumentation such as timbales and congas. Santana
continued to work in these forms over the following decades, and
experienced a sudden resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the
late 1990s.
In August
2003, Santana was named fifteenth on Rolling Stone magazine's
"List of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". In 2004, the
magazine ranked him #90 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All
Time.
Over his career he has sold an estimated 80 million albums worldwide.
1969: "Jingo"
#56 US
1970: "Evil Ways" #9 US
1971: "Black Magic
Woman" #4 US
1971: "Everybody's
Everything" #12 US
1971: "Oye Como
Va" #13 US
1972: "No One to
Depend On" #36 US
1974: "SambaPa 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: "Smooth"
(feat. Rob Thomas) #1 US, #3 UK (charted in
2000)
2000: "Maria
Maria" (feat. The Product G&B) #1 US, #6 UK
2002: "The Game of
Love" (feat. Michelle Branch) #5 US, #16 UK
2004: "Why Don't You
and I" (feat. Chad Kroeger or Alex
Band) #8 US
2005: "I'm Feeling
You" (feat. The Wreckers are Michelle Branch & Jessica Harp)
#55 US
2005: "Just Feel
Better" (feat. Steven Tyler)
2006: "Cry Baby
Cry" (feat. Sean Paul & Joss Stone) #71 UK
