King, Javier Bátiz, Mike Bloomfield, and John Lee Hooker. to me, it was like being at a university." Īround the age of eight, Santana "fell under the influence" of blues performers like B.B.
Another guy'd be listening to Miles and Coltrane. Another guy'd be listening to Tito Puente and Mongo Santamaría. Santana later said, "If I would go to some cat's room, he'd be listening to Sly and Jimi Hendrix another guy to the Stones and the Beatles. By 1968, the band had begun to incorporate different types of influences into their electric blues. In October 1966, Santana started the Santana Blues Band. They then moved to San Francisco where his father had steady work. The family moved from Autlán to Tijuana, on the border with the U.S. Santana was heavily influenced by Ritchie Valens at a time when there were very few Mexicans in American rock music.
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His younger brother, Jorge, also became a professional guitarist. He learned to play the violin at age five and the guitar at age eight, under the tutelage of his father, who was a mariachi musician. Santana was born in Autlán de Navarro in Jalisco, Mexico on July 20, 1947. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards, and was inducted along with his namesake band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. 20 on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists. In 2015, Rolling Stone magazine listed him at No. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. Its sound featured his melodic, blues-based lines set against Latin American and African rhythms played on percussion instruments not generally heard in rock, such as timbales and congas. Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán ( Spanish: ( listen) born July 20, 1947) is an American guitarist who rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and roll and Latin American jazz.
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