Santana, the revolutionist of the rock music
Carlos Santana is a musician as well as a songwriter and has a
strong foothold in various different genres like Latin rock; Rock
blues rock, Chicago rock, Jazz, free Jazz, fusion Jazz, pop, Tejano
music and salsa.
One of the most enduring musical forces of our time, Santana has
enjoyed a 40 year career, encompassing a wide variety of styles.
From the melodic simplicity of "Samba Pa Ti" to the rap/hip-hop
of "Maria Maria," Santana has left his mark.
Santana band was quite legendary and extraordinary and they
managed to bag quite a lot of awards and lists of fame. The band
along with Carlos Santana, Michael Shrieve, David Brown, Jose
Chepito Areas, Mike Carabello and Greg Rollie were honored and
conscripted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. The band
Santana received 3 Grammy Awards in the Latin category and a
total of 8 Grammy Awards all in the year 2000. Carlos Santana
himself has won various individual Grammy Awards.
Santana is also an electrifying vocalist. In the late 1990s he
experienced resurgence of fame and great critical acclamation.
The numbers of awards in Carlos Santana’s kitty are no less; he
has won 3 awards in the Latin Grammy section and 10 Grammy
awards. The Rolling Stone magazine enlisted 100 great guitarists
of all times in 2003 and Carlos Santana was the fifteenth on the
list.
In the list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, Santana was
ranked 150 in 2003. The album reached its all time high and was
ranked number 4 on the Billboard 200 chart for pop album. This
album was followed suit in the next two years by two albums
Abraxas and Santana III. The specialty of the band Santana was
that, it always kept experimenting with new music so that it
never gets out of fashion.
Santana band was quite legendary and extraordinary and they
managed to bag quite a lot of awards and lists of fame.
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