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He made the electric guitar speak in Latin rhythms when rock was still mostly white and blues-based, fusing Afro-Cuban percussion with San Francisco psychedelia at a moment when no one else was doing either.
Born in Mexico in 1947, Carlos Santana grew up steeped in musical tradition before moving to the United States, where he formed the band Santana in the late 1960s. The group pioneered a sound no one had quite heard — rock and roll married to Latin American jazz, his melodic blues lines riding over timbales and congas that had no place in rock yet. Fame came fast in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but by the late 1990s he pulled off a second act, a resurgence that brought new critical weight. Ten Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammys followed, and in 1998 he and the band entered the Rock and Ro…
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Oh, I think it was like when, you know, Cupid throws an arrow and hits you. First, there was this Mexican band, dressed up with bows and arrows.
Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said "Oh man, this is the stuff." It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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