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11 unusual facts about Carlos Santana


Carlos Alves

Carlos Santana (born 1947) (Carlos Augusto Alves Santana), American musician.

Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1988

Live at Montreux Jazz Festival is a live album by Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter released on March 27, 2007 of the concert held on July 14, 1988 at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux (Switzerland).

Carlos Santana Live

Carlos Santana Live is a 2004 live album by guitarist Carlos Santana, released with Santana as a solo performer.

Delta Farce

They learn the name of the leader of the bandits is Carlos Santana (Danny Trejo).

Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance with Vocal Coloring

The other nominees were Cy Coleman for Theme from The Garden of the Finzi Continis, Emerson, Lake & Palmer for Pictures at an Exhibition, Quincy Jones for Money Runner, Henry Mancini & Doc Severinsen for Brass on Ivory, and Santana for Caravanserai.

Latin metal

An early mention of the term comes from critic Robert Christgau, who referred to Carlos Santana's music from the 1970s as "Latin-metal pop," making it a possible forerunner in the genre.

Live at Blue Cat Blues

The song "I Don't Want To Lose Your Love" was selected to be on Santana's third shared album, All That I Am.

Márcio Montarroyos

He also played with many great artists, including Stevie Wonder, Sérgio Mendes, Sarah Vaughan, Hermeto Pascoal, Nancy Wilson, Egberto Gismonti, Carlos Santana, Milton Nascimento, Ella Fitzgerald, Tom Jobim and Ney Matogrosso.

Nine to the Universe

Young was soon to record one track with Davis for 1970's Bitches Brew and four years later played with Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin on Love Devotion Surrender.

P-90

This new pickup, occasionally named PAF, very quickly took over as the preferred choice for all Gibson models, relegating the P-90 to budget models such as the ES-330, the Les Paul Junior and Special, and the SG Junior and Special, such as those used by Pete Townshend and Carlos Santana.

Setanta Ó hAilpín

His nickname, "Carlos", is derived from the similarity between "Setanta" and "Santana", the surname of the Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana.


Arsenio Rodríguez

As David García points out, the first four beats of the actual break have a rhythm below which was used repeatedly in the subsequent decades, most famously by Tito Puente and later Carlos Santana in "Oye Como Va"—Moore (2007).

Chicano rap

Mellow Man, referred to as the "Godfather of Latin Rap", brought mainstream attention to Spanglish rhyming with his platinum single "Mentirosa", which was based on a riff from the song Evil Ways by Chicano Rock musician Carlos Santana.

Danny Click

Click's live shows have drawn surprise guest appearances by a number of artists, including Carlos Santana, Elvin Bishop, James Nash of The Waybacks, and Angela Strehli, as well as drawing audience members such as Mort Sahl, Anna Halprin, and Robin Williams.

Drumsing

In 1994, he played a concert in Holland with Dutch percussionist Martin Verdonk, and Armando Peraza (from Carlos Santana's Band).

Electro-Harmonix

The pedal sold well and was used by Carlos Santana, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Alex Lifeson of Rush and, later, Metallica's bassist Cliff Burton, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and in the 90s KoRn's rhythm guitarist Munky, Jack White of The White Stripes, J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., The Edge of U2, and Billy Corgan (on The Smashing Pumpkins landmark album, Siamese Dream).

Gene Ess

Through this group, Gene met and played with Carlos Santana, Ravi Coltrane, Eddie Henderson, Archie Shepp, and Reggie Workman among many others.

George Whitty

As a musician, he has played and recorded with artists such as Dave Matthews and Carlos Santana ("Supernatural"), Celine Dion ("Falling Into You" and "These are Special Times"), Michael and Randy Brecker (4 years on the road, 7 CDs), Chaka Khan ("The Woman I Am"), Richard Bona (phenom from Cameroon), Chris Minh Doky, Sadao Watanabe, Grover Washington, Jr., Till Brönner ("Midnight") and other well-known artists.

Groove Collective

The original members were keyboardist Itaal Shur (who later went on to co-write the #1 hit Smooth for Carlos Santana), percussionist/MC Gordon "Nappy G" Clay, flutist Richard Worth, drummer Genji Siraisi, bassist Jonathan Maron, saxophonist Jay Rodriguez, percussionist Chris Theberge, trumpeter Fabio Morgera, Vibraphonist Bill Ware and trombonist Josh Roseman.

Gustavo Santander

He has composed more 200 songs for major artists like David Bisbal, Alejandro Fernández, Cristian Castro, Diego Torres, Ricardo Montaner, Sergio Dalma, Luis Fonsi, Rocío Dúrcal, Jerry Rivera and Carlos Santana, among others.

Herb Greene

Greene made portraits of other prominent musicians including Jeff Beck, Joe Cocker, The Pointer Sisters, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Carlos Santana, Sly Stone, and Rod Stewart.

John Means

In 1989, he joined 45 other performers, including Los Lobos, Santana, Aaron Neville, and Crosby, Stills & Nash at a benefit concert in Watsonville, California for victims of the Loma Prieta earthquake.

Jorge Drexler

Though Drexler himself sang the song on the movie soundtrack, it was performed together by Antonio Banderas and Carlos Santana at the Academy Awards ceremony.

KBIG

Denes added in the same article, "104.3MYfm will play adult hits like Kelly Clarkson, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Fergie, Justin Timberlake, John Mayer, Shakira, Madonna, Santana and much more. Every song we play is or was at the top of the charts."

Kike Posada

In April 1997, he was invited to a participate in a panel at the Billboard Latin Music Conference to speak, along with prestigious producers and musicians such as Phil Manzanera and Jorge Santana (brother of Carlos Santana) on the future of Rock in Spanish in the U.S.

Linda Manzer

Many professional musicians own one of Manzer's guitars including (among others): Julian Lage, Carlos Santana, Henrik Andersen, Stephen Fearing, Gary Larson, Milton Nascimento, Liona Boyd, Heather Bishop, Bruce Cockburn, Paul Simon, Roy Patterson, Marie-Lynn Hammond, Susan Crowe, and Gordon Lightfoot.

Love 4 One Another Charities Tour

Some songs that made occasional appearances were "Partyman", "Somebody's Somebody", "The Ride", a Carlos Santana medley, "The Holy River", "Condition of the Heart", "Baby I'm a Star" / "1999" and "Little Red Corvette"

Memphis Slim

It has become famous as "Every Day I Have the Blues." The tune was recorded in 1950 by Lowell Fulson, and subsequently by a raft of artists including B. B. King, Elmore James, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Natalie Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimi Hendrix, Mahalia Jackson, Sarah Vaughan, Carlos Santana, John Mayer and Lou Rawls.

Mikael Rickfors

Among the artists who have recorded songs Mikael has written, in addition to The Hollies, are: Carlos Santana ("Daughter of the Night"), Cyndi Lauper ("Yeah Yeah" on her multi-million selling debut album), Percy Sledge ("Blue Night", "Misty Morning", "Shining Through the Rain", "Road of No Return"), Richie Havens, Jim Capaldi, Carla Olson, and Paul Jones (on his 2009 solo album Starting All Over Again).

Mimi Fariña

Fariña used her connections with the folksinging community to elicit help in her focus with Bread and Roses, including Pete Seeger, Paul Winter, Odetta, Judy Collins, Taj Mahal, Lily Tomlin, Carlos Santana, and Bonnie Raitt, amongst others.

Natalie Pa‘apa’a

Known for their strong political songs and high octane live performances, Blue King Brown have opened for local and international acts as diverse as Carlos Santana, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Damian Marley, The John Butler Trio, The Cat Empire, Silverchair, and Powderfinger.

Rebeca Mauleon

Since her early twenties, she has performed and recorded with celebrities in the Latin and jazz music scenes, including Tito Puente, Carlos Santana, Cachao, the celebrated conguero Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Armando Peraza, Giovanni Hidalgo, Joe Henderson, Sheila E, Steve Winwood, Michael Nesmith and others, and has made a name for herself as one of very few female band-leaders in Afro-Caribbean jazz.

Smithsonian Channel's Sound Revolution

Each hour-long program is filled with recent performances, largely from the Montreux Jazz Festival, featuring performances by: B.B. King, Ike Tuner, Buddy Guy, Etta James, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Robert Cray, Miles Davis, The Neville Brothers and many others.

Stomago Sagrado

Being well versed in the styles of Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Boston, Earth Wind and Fire, Santana, etc., he founded and led Rock, Pop and Funk bands in his hometown, including "Catarsis" whose members - after Alberto left Maracaibo to continue his music studies at the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica in Mexico City - accompanied for many years famed vocalist Ricardo Montaner, also from Maracaibo, Vzla.

The Label: The Story of Columbia Records

Quadraphonic recording was used by both classical artists, including Leonard Bernstein and Pierre Boulez, and popular artists such as Barbra Streisand and Carlos Santana.

Tim Carmon

The roster of musicians with whom Carmon has performed, toured, written, or produced is lengthy: Eric Clapton, Babyface, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Queen Latifah, Marcus Miller, Sheryl Crow, Bob Dylan, Gladys Knight, B.B. King, Jamie Foxx, Earth Wind and Fire, Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock, Michael McDonald, Mary J. Blige, David Sanborn and more.

Tulsa Sound

His songs have been recorded by many artists, including Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Deep Purple, The Allman Brothers Band, Johnny Cash, The Band, Kansas, Santana, Captain Beefheart, Widespread Panic, and Bryan Ferry.

Verão Vermelho

Carlos Santana pays homage to the late, legendary Brazilian singer, Elis Regina.

Whirld Tour 2010: Live in London

Like their previous live albums, this set features 6 songs, however because of the amount of material the band had thus far, no cover songs are featured (although bits of covers are scattered throughout the show, including Deep Purple's Highway Star, Santana's Soul Sacrifice, and even the McDonald's theme).