Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947)
is a Mexican-Nicaraguan born American
Grammy Award-winning
rock musician and
guitarist. Santana became famous in the late
1960s and early
1970s
with his band,
Santana, which
pioneered a blend of
rock,
salsa and
jazz
fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based
guitar lines set against Latin percussion
such as
timbales and
congas. Santana continued to work in these forms over
the following decades. He experienced a sudden resurgence of
popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s.
Rolling
Stone also named Santana number 15 on their list of the 100
Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003.
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.
In San Francisco, the young guitarist 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,
world music, 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 on the
streets, 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.
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.
Santana claimed to become a
born-again Christian (date
unknown) and produced an album in 1992 —with songs about Jesus
Christ, called
Milagro.
In 2008 he told
Rolling Stone
magazine in an interview that he would hear Jesus' voice comforting
him when he was becoming
suicidal.
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. For a time, he employed the services of famed
Jaco Pastorius on
bass guitar who added more of a funk groove to
his newer jazz sound.
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 " 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 often-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. Personally, 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' Chanckler
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 Slavador, 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 Pi 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

Carlos Santana during a concert in
2005
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.
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."
On October 19, 2007, his wife of 34 years, Deborah, filed for
divorce citing "irreconcilable differences".
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 later 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
,
Macedonia. 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.
Carlos has recently opened a chain of upscale Mexican restaurants
called "Maria Maria". It is a combined effort with renowned Chef
Roberto Santibanez. They are located in Tempe AZ, Mill Valley &
Walnut Creek CA, and Austin TX, and soon to Boca Raton FL.
http://www.mariamariarestaurants.com/
Influences
Around the age of 8, Santana "fell under the influence" of blues
performers like
B.B. King and
John Lee
Hooker.
[22899] He also credits
Jimi Hendrix as an important influence.
[22900].
Equipment
Guitars
Santana performing in 2000
In the mid 1970's, Carlos Santana endorsed a lot of musical
equipment, including the Gibson
L-6S,
and
Mesa Boogie amplifiers. He was
featured in several Gibson advertisements throughout the decade.
Santana played a red Gibson SG Special with P-90 pickups at the
Woodstock festival. Then he switched between the P90 SG and a
regular Humbucker SG until 1972 when he usually played a standard
or a custom maple top Les Paul. 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. On
"Supernatural" he used a custom made
PRS
guitar for the majority of the tracks.
Santana currently endorses
PRS Guitars,
and is in fact one of Paul Reed Smith's first customers. He uses a
Santana II model guitar using PRS Santana III pickups with nickel
covers and a tremolo, with .009-.042 gauge
D'Addario strings. His Signature Series models
vary greatly from this in some cases, such as the Santana SE and
Santana III guitars (which have
ceased production). The Santana III has covered pickups instead,
and no abalone stringers between the pickups (a feature unique to
his official guitar). The Santana SE guitar has 22 frets, tremolo,
a basic sunburst top, and a pickguard.
Santana's guitar necks and fretboards are constructed out of a
single solid piece of Brazilian
Rosewood,
instead of the more traditional mahogany neck/Indian rosewood
fretboard combination found in stock Santana models and other PRS
guitars. The Brazilian Rosewood 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.
In January 2008, Carlos Santana unveiled the new Signature Model
PRS Santana MD. Santana introduced the very latest PRS signature
model, the Santana MD, and its "multi-dimensional" Voice Control.
Also shared was Santana's appreciation of Paul Smith's "vision of
sound." The Santana MD has all the latest Santana model updates -
pickups, knob placement, inlays, tuners and a Mastering Voice
Control for early '60s single coil sounds that don't hum. With this
model Carlos returns to the basics in his sound like the Woodstock
rock festival back in 1969, but with the new technology provided by
PRS Guitars.In keeping with the "best of all possible worlds"
theme, the PRS Santana MD guitar includes classic features from
previous Santana guitars, like the traditional "Santana wide fat"
neck shape, Rosewood fretboard, and Mahogany body with carved flame
Maple top and Abalone purfling.However, there are changes as well.
Most notably, the positions of the controls have been altered.
While the 3-way pickup selector switch and Tone knob are still
roughly between the tailpiece and the bridge, the Volume knob has
been shifted to a position right next to the bridge pickup. This
makes it easier to control the volume while playing, which Santana
likes to do. The new mini-toggle is in between the two knobs.Carlos
made a new album with his new PRS Santana Signature MD, the album
is called
Ultimate .
In 21 August 2009, Carlos Santana in the guitar player's
publication "Classic Rock Lead Guitar" introduce the new Signature
guitar, PRS Santana Abraxas SE. This guitar the second Santana SE
model, with totally new unique and unexpected( for his signature)
design. This guitar has a single cutaway, classic PRS headstock, 22
frets, no tremolo bridge, single micro humbucker, pickguard and
goes with recognized Abraxas Angel logo on the guitar body,
Santana's name on the headstock, Carlos's personal signature on the
back of the body and the hippie sign "Peace" on the 12th fret. Like
the PRS Santana SE( which have ceased production), this model Paul
Reed Smith Santana Abraxas SE is a student-edition guitar meant to
increase the affordability of PRS-brand guitars.
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
Albums with the band Santana
Albums as a solo artist or in collaborations
Unofficial releases
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 Erik Schrody)
- 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 Alex Band) #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
- 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.
Videos
- Carlos Santana—Influences (video)
- Sacred Fire. Live in Mexico. (video &
DVD)
- Supernatural (video & DVD)
- Viva Santana (DVD)
- Santana Live By Request (DVD)
Tribute albums
- Ed Calle: Ed Calle Plays
Santana (Universal Latino, 2004)
References
- The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time;
Rolling Stone
-
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23356489/carlos_cosmic_bummer/3
- "Carlos Santana's wife of 34 years files for
divorce" - CNN - November 2,
2007
- Santana - Musician's Corner - Blue Guitar
- Santana - Musician's Corner - Red Guitar
- PRS Guitars - Santana III
- Santana - Musician's Corner - Acoustic Guitar
- His rig can be seen in a magazine article cited at T-Rex's website
- "Carlos Santana Spreads the Gospel of Tone" by
Darrin Fox, Guitar Player Magazine, June edition 2005.
- Overview of Santana's old effects setup.
- RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for albums by
Santana
- RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for albums by Carlos
Santana
- RIAA Gold and Platinum Search for singles by
Santana
Sources
- Soul Sacrifice; The Carlos Santana Story Simon Leng
2000
- Space Between The Stars Deborah Santana 2004
- Rolling Stone "The Resurrection of Carlos Santana" Ben
Fong Torres 1972
- New Musical Express "Spirit of Santana" Chris
Charlesworth November 1973
- Guitar Player Magazine 1978
- Rolling Stone "The Epic Life of Carlos Santana"
2000
- Santana I - Sony Legacy Edition: liner notes
- Abraxas - Sony Legacy Edition: liner notes
- Santana III - Sony Legacy edition: liner notes
- Viva Santana - CBS CD release 1988; liner notes
- Power, Passion and Beauty - The Story of the Legendary
Mahavishnu Orchestra Walter Kolosky 2006
- Best of Carlos Santana - Wolf Marshall 1996;
introduction and interview
Further reading
- Louise Chipley Slavicek. Carlos Santana. Chelsea House
Publications or Facts on File, 2006, 119 p., ISBN
0-7910-8844-8
- Simon Leng. Soul sacrifice : The Santana story.
Firefly-S.A.F. Publishing, 2000, 224 p., ISBN 0-946719-29-2.
Republished as Santana, Catedra, 2002, ISBN
8437619475
- Jim McCarthy with Ron Sansoe, foreword by Carlos Santana.
Voices of Latin rock : The people and events that created this
sound. Omnibus Press, 2004 and Hal Leonard Publishing, 2005,
316 p., ISBN 0-634-08061-X
- Hal Miller and Debbie Santana, edited by John Faulkner, with a
foreword by Bill Graham. Santana : A retrospective of the
Santana band's twenty years in music. San Francisco, Mission
Cultural Center, 1987 or 1988, 50p., no ISBN. Includes a 4-p
genealogical tree w/ the name of members of all Santana bands from
1966.
- Henna Remstein. Carlos Santana (Latinos in the
limelight). Chelsea House Publications, 2001, 64 p., ISBN
0-7910-6473-5
- Marc Shapiro. Carlos Santana : Back on top.
St-Martin's Press, 2000 and 2002, 288 p., ISBN 0-312-28852-2
- Michael Sumsion. Maximum Santana : The unauthorized
biography of Santana. Chrome Dreams, 2001 and 2003, ISBN
1-84240-107-6. Includes a CD w/ interviews
- Adam Woog. Carlos Santana : Legendary guitarist.
Lucent Books, 2006, 104 p., ISBN 1-59018-972-8
External links