Albert Lozano
Instructor: Craig E. Farrin, Ph.D.
Class: Music 1010
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Table of Content
 Biography of Musican
 Smooth
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 History of Music
 Black Magic Women
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 Guide of Music
 Oye Como Va
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 Relative to Symphony
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musician
Carlos
Santana
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Carlos Santana name at
birth was Carlos Augusto Alves
Santana, he learned to play the
violin at age five and the guitar at
age eight. As a young boy Carlos
was influenced by Ritchie Valens.
At that time there were few
Latinos in American rock and pop
music. Around the age of 8 he was
also influenced by the blues pf
B.B. King and John Lee Hooker. He
also also credits Jimi Hendrix, Mike
Bloomfield and Peter Green as
influences too.
Carlos family moved
from Autlán de Navarro to Tijuana.
Carlos graduated from James Lick
Middle School and Mission High in
1965. Carlos was accepted into the
California State University,
Northridge and Humboldt State
University, but turned them down.
Javier Bátiz, a guitarist from
Tijuana, was said to have been
Carlos's guitar teacher who taught
him to play a different style of
guitar solo. After learning Javier
Batiz's techniques, Santana would
use these techniques for the
present and the future.
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Carlos is a Mexican and
American rock guitarist. Santana
became famous in the late 1960s
where he found his groove. The
Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix
the music was Dalí like sounds. In
San Francisco, he got the chance
to see his idol B.B. King perform
live. He was also introduced to
new musical influences, including
jazz and folk music, and witnessed
the growing hippie movement that
was centered in San Francisco in
the 1960s. Carlos spent several
years working as a dishwasher in a
diner and bussing tables.
In 1966, he gained
prominence by a series of events
all happening on the same day.
Santana was a spectator at Bill
Graham's Fillmore West. Santana's
manager, Stan Marcum, suggested
to Graham that Santana join the
impromptu band. During the jam
session, Santana's guitar playing
and solo gained the notice of the
audience. During the same year,
Santana formed the Santana Blues
Band, with fellow street musicians,
David Brown and Gregg Rolie.
Santana's
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performed at the Woodstock
festival in 1969.
Carlos Santana first
recorded with his band in 1969. In
the 1970’s Santana which
pioneered rock, Latin music and
jazz fusion. The band's sound
featured his melodic, blues-based
guitar lines set against Latin and
African rhythms featuring
percussion instruments with
timbales and congas not generally
used. The combining electrified
blues guitar and Afro-Cuban
rhythms into a groovy, danceable
blend.
Santana was a big part
of the San Francisco music, and
their hit 1970 album Abraxas has
been a seller for three decades. It
features some of Santana's best
known songs, including "Black
Magic Woman" and "Oye Como
Va." The personnel in the band
Santana has changed many times
over the years. Teenage San
Francisco Bay Area guitar Neal
Schon joined the band in 1971 and
helped with their third album,
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Santana III. The band now boasted
a powerful dual-lead-guitar act
that gave the album a new sound.
Enhancing the band's sound
further was the support of the
group Tower of Power's horn
section, Luis Gasca of Malo, and
other musicians that added to
both percussion and vocals,
injecting more energy to the
proceedings but tension in the
band continued. Along with
musical differences, drug use
became a problem, and Santana
was worried it was affecting the
band's performance. Santana was
asked to take more control of the
band's musical direction by Coke
Escovedo, much to the dismay of
the band members.
Santana met Deborah
King, whom he later married in
1973. She is the daughter of the
late blues singer and guitarist
Saunders King. They have three
children: Salvador, Stella and
Angelica. Carlos and wife Deborah
founded a not-for-profit
organization, the Milagro
Foundation, which provides
financial aid for educational,
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•medical, and other needs. In 1973
Carlos obtained legal rights to his
band's name Santana.
The band concentrated
on producing albums with
commercial appeal during the
1980s, changing the popular
culture began to reflect in the
band's record sales of their latest.
The 1983 album revisited
Santana's early musical 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. In
1985, Bill Graham had to pull
strings for Santana to convince
principal Live Aid concert
organizer Bob Geldof to allow
their appearance at the festival.
The group's high-energy
performance proved a top concert
draw the world over despite their
poor performance on the charts.
Santana regained respect in both
jazz and rock circles, with Prince
and guitarist Kirk Hammett of
Metallica as an influence. In 1988,
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Santana organized a reunion with
past members. Which released a
20-year retrospective of the
band's accomplishments with Viva
Santana!
In 1990, Santana left
Columbia Records after twentytwo years and signed with
Polygram. The following year, he
made an appearance on Ottmar
Liebert's album Solo Para Ti, on
the songs "Reaching out 2 U" and
on his own song, "Samba Pa Ti". In
1992, Santana hired jam band
Phish as his opening act. Santana's
record sales in the 1990s were
low. Toward the end of the
decade, he was without a
contract.
Santana continued to
work over the following decades.
He experienced a resurgence and
acclaim in the late 1990s. Carlos
has worked with other popular
artists, including Buddy Miles,
Herbie Hancock, Willie Nelson and
Dave Matthews. The result was
1999's Supernatural, which
included collaborations with
Everlast, Rob Thomas of Matchbox
Twenty, Eric Clapton, Lauryn Hill,
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Wyclef Jean, Cee-Lo, Maná, Dave
Matthews, K. C. Porter, J. B. Eckl.
Carlos Santana became a
naturalized American citizen in
1965. On October 19, 2007, his
wife of 34 years, Deborah, filed for
divorce citing "irreconcilable
differences”. Carlos Santana
became engaged to Cindy
Blackman, after proposing to her
during a concert of the Universal
Tone Tour at Tinley Park in
Chicago, Illinois on July 9, 2010.
The two were married in
December 2010. They currently
live in Marin County, California.
In 2000 Supernatural
won nine Grammy Awards,
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 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
10
Happens", from the album
Invincible. In 2002, Santana
released Shaman, revisiting the
Supernatural format of guest
artists including P.O.D. and Seal.
The album was not as success its
predecessor, 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" featuring
Chad Kroeger from the group
Nickelback 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
early August 2003, Santana was
named fifteenth on Rolling Stone
magazine's list of the "100
Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
On April 21, 2005, Santana was
honored as a BMI Icon at the 12th
annual BMI Latin Awards. Santana
was the first songwriter
designated a BMI Icon at the
company's Latin Awards.
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Albert Lozano
Instructor: Craig E. Farrin,
Ph.D.
Class: Music 1010
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musician
Carlos
Santana
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Carlos Santana is the
Hall of Fame guitarist and
bandleader who stayed active in
blues and pop for over 40 years.
Carlos Santana first recorded with
his band Santana in 1969,
combining blues guitar and AfroCuban rhythms into a groovy,
danceable blend. Santana was a
big part of the San Francisco
scene, and their hit 1970 album
Abraxas has been his best seller
for three decades. It features
some of Santana's best known
songs, including "Black Magic
Woman" and "Oye Como Va."
Santana became famous in the
late 1960s and early 1970s with
his band, Santana, which
pioneered rock, Latin music and
jazz fusion.
Santana was approached
by several record companies in the
late 1960s, the band declined a
contract. When they played for
half a million people at the
legendary Woodstock festival in
1969, they did not have an album
out. They performed a piece titled
“Soul Sacrifice,” written for this
event. Santana was signed to
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Columbia Records by the end of
the year. Santana stayed on the
Billboard charts for two years,
selling more than four million
copies. It over sold the hits “Evil
Ways” and “Jingo.”
After the muchpublicized drug-related deaths of
several prominent musicians in the
late 1960s and early 1970s,
including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin,
and Jim Morrison, Santana began
to reassess his life. In the 1970s,
Santana continued a wave of
success, releasing its second hit
album, Abraxas. This featured the
classic rock staples “Oye Como Va”
and “Black Magic Woman” and
went platinum. In January 1972, a
concert at Hawaii's Diamond Head
Crater, which was recorded for the
album, Carlos Santana & Buddy
Miles! Live! The performance was
not very good, but the album
managed to achieve gold-record.
When Caravanserai did emerge in
1972, the album received praise,
but CBS executive Clive Davis
warned Santana and the band that
it would position as a "Top 40" act.
Santana would release four more
albums with
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spiritual themes, recording
without his band but collaboration
with Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock,
and Wayne Shorter. Santana did
not have another top-ten hit until
1976’s Amigos.
In the 1980s,
Santana and the band recorded
less frequently, only putting out
five albums throughout the
decade. However, they toured,
selling out stadiums and appearing
at events like LiveAid, the US
Festival, and on the first Amnesty
International concert tour. He also
helped organize the “Blues for
Salvador” concert in Oakland,
California, in 1988, which
benefitted children in El Salvador.
He won a Grammy Award for Best
Rock Instrumental Performance
for “Blues for Salvador.” In 1988
he toured with saxophonist Wayne
Shorter and also on a tour with
the original Santana band
members Rolie, Areas, and
Shrieve, who had not played
together since the early 1970s. In
addition, in 1988 he released a 30song album which featured
previous hits along with
unreleased studio tracks, live cuts,
and sound checks.
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In 1992, ending his lengthy
association with Columbia,
Santana signed a deal with Polydor
Records which included forming
his own label, called Guts & Grace.
It was call in Rolling Stone,
Santana’s first effort for this label,
Milagro, “one of the finest
sessions ,” and added, ’The album
reaffirms Santana’s position as the
bearer for fusion music.” In 1993,
he toured with folk icon Bob
Dylan, and in 1996, he toured with
guitar great Jeff Beck. Though
Santana still sold seats, radio
stations just seem to play his early
hits. He received a star on the
Hollywood Rock Walk of Fame in
1996, but it would take him until
1998 to be inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame.
Santana, working with
his band, managed to assemble a
collection of some of the biggest
talents in the industry, including
Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Eagle Eye
Cherry, Dave Matthews, Rob
Thomas of Matchbox 20, Evertasi,
and the Dust Brothers, producers
for Beck and the Beastie Boys. Eric
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Clapton made an appearance. The
result was 1999’s Supernatural,
reached number one on the
Billboard album chart and was a
number-one single, “Smooth.”
Supernatural also became the
most critically acclaimed CDs of
the year and sold 14 million copies
by 2003.
In February of 2000,
Santana won eight Grammy
Awards, including Record of the
Year for “Smooth,” and Album of
the Year and Best Rock Album for
Supernatural. He also won an
American Music Award that year
for Best Album. He waited three
years to release Shaman, his
follow-up album to the
phenomenon that was
Supernatural. Santana used the
blueprint that led them to success
with Supernatural, assembling a
popular musicians to contribute to
the album. Musiq, Seal, Michelle
Branch, Dido, Placido Domingo,
and many others make
appearances on the album.
He performed "Black
Magic Woman" with the writer of
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the song, Fleetwood Mac's
founder Peter Green. In 2005,
Herbie Hancock approached
Santana to collaborate on an
album using the Supernatural
formula. Possibilites was released
on August 30, 2005, featuring
Carlos Santana and Angélique
Kidjo on "Safiatou". Also, in 2005,
fellow Latin star Shakira asked
Santana to play the soft rock guitar
ballad "Illegal" on her second
English-language studio album
Oral Fixation Vol. 2. Santana's
2005 album All That I Am consists
primarily of collaborations with
other artists; the first single, the
peppy "I'm Feeling You", 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 with
Sheila E ,and José Feliciano, on
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Gloria Estefan's album 90 Millas,
on the single "No Llores". He
teamed with Chad Kroeger for the
hit single "Into the Night". In 2008,
Santana worked with his longtime friend, Marcelo Vieira, on his
solo album Marcelo Vieira's
Acoustic Sounds. It features tracks
such as "For Flavia" and "Across
the Grave", featuring heavy
melodic riffs by Santana. Carlos
Santana performed at the 2009
American Idol Finale with the top
13 finalists, with 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 allstar 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 collaborate with other
artist make him one of the best
know guitarist of his time.
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Albert Lozano
Instructor: Craig E. Farrin,
Ph.D.
Class: Music 1010
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musician
Carlos
Santana
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Began performing in
Tijuana, Mexico, 1961; lead
guitarist of group Santana, 1966;
recording artist with
Columbia/CBS, 1969-91; recording
artist with Polydor, 1991; founded
Guts and Grace record label, 1994;
appeared at Fillmore West, 1968,
Woodstock Music and Arts
Festival, 1969, Altamont Festival,
1969, California Jamil, 1978,
LiveAid, 1985, first Amnesty
International concert tour, 1986,
Woodstock ’94, 1994; released
album Supernatural, which won
eight Grammy Awards, 1999;
released Shaman, 2002.
Awards: Latin New York
Music Awards, Latin Rock Band of
the Year, 1975; Bay Area Music
Award (Bammy Award), Best
Guitarist, 1976-77, 1980-81, 199495; Bammy Award, Best Album for
Moonflower, 1977; Bammy Award,
Best Group, 1980; Grammy Award,
Best Rock Instrumental
Performance for Blues for
Salvador, 1988; Bammy Award,
Musician of the Year, 1978, 1988,
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1993; Billboard Century Award for
distinguished creative
achievement, 1996; received star
on Hollywood Rock Walk of Fame,
1996; induction, Bay Area Music
Awards Walk of Fame, 1997;
Chicano Lifetime Achievement
Award, 1997; Nosotros’ Golden
Eagle Legend in Music Award,
1997; induction, Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame, 1998; National Council of
La Raza, Alma Award, 1999;
Grammy Awards, Record of the
Year, Song of the Year, Album of
the Year, Best Pop Performance by
a Duo or Group with Vocal, Best
Pop Collaboration with Vocals,
Best Pop Instrumental
Performance, Best Rock
Performance by a Duo or Group
with Vocal, Best Rock Instrumental
Performance, 2000, Best Pop
Collaboration, 2003.
Carlos Santana, at 52
years of age, has received more
acclaim and airplay in the late
years than he had received in the
previous years of his career as a
rock star combined. Michael
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Jackson had held the record alone
in 1983 with eight Grammys. The
guitar’/musician it is not the end
for this artist but the beginning
“Santana”. supernatural source of
the success Santana has enjoyed
with his album Supernatural?
Santana has been candid about
the fact that he has had
supernatural direction and
assistance from a spirit entity, calls
it Metatron from the inception of
the project. This spirit entity
guaranteed and even prophesied
the success of the album
Supernatural before the project
started. Santana told Rolling Stone
magazine in the summer of 1999,
more than half a year before the
showing at the 42nd Annual
Grammys.
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Relative to the symphony, there
are several other features in
Santana's recording that reflect its
African roots. One is the loose feel
of the Brahms theme when it is
sung, the way it flows. Others are
the prominence of the percussion,
the way the bass, drums, guitar,
vocal, and other parts are layered,
the vocal inflections of the guitar
playing, and the style and voice
quality of the singe
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