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Carlos Santana
Autlán de Navarro (México)
Carlos Santana (born as Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán; 20 July 1947 in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, México) is a Mexican rock guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and e…
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Carlos Santana (born as Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán; 20 July 1947 in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, México) is a Mexican rock guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine listed Santana at number 15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and 3 Latin Grammy Awards. Santana has was an avenue named after him as well as a statue of a guitar in the city where he was born (born in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, México) to honour him. The family moved from there to Tijuana In La Calonia Libertad, the city on Mexico's border with California, and then San Francisco, USA. Carlos stayed in Tijuana but joined his family in San Francisco later and graduated from James Lick Middle School and Mission High School there. Most of his musical career has been spent with Santana, the band he formed in San Francisco in 1967. His music underwent large changes in 1973 when he was introduced to the spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy, by fellow guitarist "Mahavishnu" John McLaughlin. After this he adopted the title "Devadip" which he still uses. In 1998 he formed the Milagro Foundation along with his wife Deborah, which supports disadvantaged children. Later Carlos and Deborah divorced, but the Milagro Foundation is still alive and well. Other huge influences of Carlos Santana are both Miles Davis (with whom he maintained a big personal connection), and John Coltrane, who unfortunately passed away in 1967.
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2025
A Grammy Celebration of Latin Music
Movie Self
- 2024
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2024
Johnson and Knopfler's Music Legends
TV show Self
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2023
Carlos
Movie Self
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2023
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity
TV show Producer
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2023
They All Came Out to Montreux
Movie Self
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2022
Jose Feliciano: Behind This Guitar
Movie Self
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2022
McEnroe
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2022
The Torch
Movie Self
- 2021
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2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Movie Self
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2021
Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away
Movie Self
- 2021
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2020
Fandango at the Wall
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Movie Self - Musician
- 2019
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2019
John Lee Hooker: The Boogie Man
Movie Self
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2017
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Movie Self
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2017
Chasing Trane
Movie Self - Musician
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2017
Dolores
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
TV show Self
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2016
Soundbreaking
TV show Self
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2016
Santana IV - Live At The House of Blues, Las Vegas
Movie Himself
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2016
Santana: Down Under - Live in Australia
Movie Himself
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2015
Korla
Movie self
- 2015
- 2014
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2014
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
Movie Self
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2014
Santana Live at New Orleans Jazz Festival 2014
Movie himself
- 2013
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2013
PBS News Weekend
TV show Self
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2013
Born In Chicago
Movie Self
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2012
Beware of Mr. Baker
Movie Self
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2012
B.B. King: The Life of Riley
Movie Self
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2012
Santana Live at Montreux 2011
Movie Self : Guitar
- 2011
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2011
The Santana Story: Angels and Demons
Movie Self
- 2011
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2009
Rock Prophecies
Movie Self
- 2009
