Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana is one of those rare guitarists you can identify in a single sustained note. What moves me is how he carried his Mexican roots from Autlan de Navarro into a sound that fused rock with Latin and jazz and simply belonged to no one else. He could have coasted on Woodstock legend forever, yet he kept reinventing and bridging generations of listeners. The Kennedy Center Honors and Hollywood star feel almost beside the point. For me, Santana plays from the spirit more than the fretboard, and that searching, devotional quality is exactly why his tone still gives me chills.

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Name (English)

Carlos Santana

Name (Japanese)

カルロス・サンタナ

Reading

かるろす・さんたな

Born

July 20, 1947 (age 79)

Origin

Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico

Occupation

singer-songwriter / singer / composer / jazz guitarist / guitarist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Boar

High school

Hempstead High School

Awards & achievements

• 2011 California Hall of Fame
• Kennedy Center Honors
• Amadeus Austrian Music Awards
• 2015 American Book Awards
• 2004 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year
• 2009 Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 2015 Billboard Spirit of Hope Award

• Official sitehttps://www.santana.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/SantanaCarlos
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Santana
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%8A
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q819016

Tags

• Jalisco
• singer-songwriter
• singer
• composer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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