Biography of the guitarist Santan

Born on July 20 in the small Mexican town Outlan de Navarro. When Carlos was five years old, his father, Jose Santan, being an experienced script musician, began to teach his son the basics of music theory and a violin game. In the year, his family moves from Outlan to Tijuana. Moving from a small quiet village to the bustle of the city acted stunningly on Carlos. Here, musical life was in full swing and rocke-n-roll dominated.

An eight -year -old boy left the violin and picked up a guitar, on which he began to learn to play as well as with his father. Having mastered the basics of the game, Carlos began to engage in his own, imitating Bi Bi King, John Hoker with whom he would subsequently make several records and other celebrities. Playing in local groups, Carlos gradually began to attract attention with a beautiful game and remarkable fiction and taste.

Music gradually began to bring income, which was a good help for a not very wealthy family. In the year, Carlos's relatives moved to San Francisco, but he decided to linger for a year to earn a little more money until his family was settled in a new place, and joined them a year later. With the move to San Francisco, Santana plunges with the head into the multinational culture of the city, sensitively absorbing various musical movements and styles.

Over the next few years, he continues to improve, look for his own “I” and develop his own style of playing the guitar. Photo: Guitars. RU, having graduated from school in the year, Carlos felt quite experienced and collected his own Santana Blues Band team. The group held on two "whales": the Santan itself and the singing keyboat Greg Role. Their debut took place in the famous Hall "Philmore West".

Two years later, the musicians reduced the name to a more convenient Santana. This name increasingly began to flicker in a row with the names of the blues of blues. A wave of popularity of the group grew up to the historical festival in Woodstock in the year, where the half -million audience was struck by the hurricane composition of Soul Sacrifice. The successful performance of Santana Band at the Woodstock Festival of Music and Arts attracted the attention of recording companies.

Having received several offers from various companies at once, the group ultimately signed a contract with Columbia Records. The debut album “Santana Band”, “Santana” - published in November, was marked by a double “platinum”. In it, rock music and Latin American rhythms with many percussive instruments are bizarrely mixed in it. This style to this day remains the hallmark of Carlos Santana.

Already in these early albums, the game of the master is immediately felt. The sound of his guitar is completely special, similar only to himself. Not particularly relying on the high -speed technique of the game, Santana makes the main emphasis on emotions, trying to convey his inner state to the listener through the guitar. Its style is determined by abundantly used beads and long viscous sounds using glyssando, interspersed with sharply contrasting short phrases.

At the same time, Santana takes part in many other musical projects. One of the latest Santana projects is the record of the Brothers album, where in addition to him, his brother Jorge plays a permanent participant in his group and nephew Carlos Hernandez. And in the year, Santana undertook the “Sacred Fire” tour “Holy Fire” along Mexico and the countries of South America, where he performed both his old and new songs that had not previously played anywhere.

The album with the same name was recorded during the tour and well conveys the atmosphere of concerts. Somewhere by the middle of the seventies, Santan gradually began to go to jazz. Of course, this could not please everyone, nevertheless, many calmly took these stylistic changes, and the eighties passed for Carlos, even without large ups, but still quite brightly.

Among his successes, such achievements can be noted: his group became the first in history, whose performance was broadcast on the Air Force simultaneously on radio and television; "Album of the year" from Japanese critics for the record "Amigos"; The first “Crystal Globe Award” award in history for 5 million records sold around the world; creation of a soundtrack for the film "La Bamba"; Finally, the amazing "album-monument" to John Lee Hoker The Healer.

Carlos Santana is a permanent participant in all kinds of charitable actions, such as charitable concerts in favor of the Earthquakes in San Francisco and Tihuana orphans, in support of the rights of the local population and the accessibility of education for Latin-American youth. In addition, he was founded by the Millagro Foundation Foundation, which provides support in obtaining education, medical services and housing to children of the entire globe.

One of the funds established by him allocates scholarships to young talented musicians. During the creative career of Carlos Santana, more than 40 million copies of his albums were sold, he spoke to more than a millionth audience and became true a world scale.Carlos was awarded many awards, various magazines repeatedly assigned him the title of “best guitarist”, and the songs on his performance were held for a long time at the tops of the hit parades.

Santana received the title of "Legend of Latin American music." In the year, Santana was first awarded the Grammy Prize in the Grammy in the “Best Rock-Installation” category, and Grammy brought him a victory in 8 of 11 nominations in which he advanced. The summer guitarist achieved this amazing success album “Supernatural”, which in just two months of the year the official release date is June 16, “Arista Record” only in the United States spread out with a 6 million circulation.

The album itself, as well as songs and instrumental compositions from it, became the best in the nominations regarding rock and pop music. According to February data, this album has already become platinum in the United States 7 times, and all over the world it reacted more than carefully; The song “Smooth” has become such a radiochite as Santana has not been since the year: in the year she set a record at Billboard, having stayed in the first place 9 weeks!

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