Carlos Augusto Alves Santana
 

Carlos Santana

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: "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: "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
  • 2006: "Illegal" (featuring Shakira)

 

(Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Santana )

 

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