Once upon a time there was a guitar god who had grown bored with all his fame, riches and glory. He longed for something more than another multi-platinum selling record. He desired not simply acclaim, ...
How did acclaimed drummer Cindy Blackman Santana react when her husband and musical partner, guitar legend Carlos Santana, first suggested she make an album featuring her singing? “I was like: ‘That’s ...
Carlos Santana is on the mend after breaking bones in his left hand in a recent fall at his home in Hawaii. The injury forced the guitar legend to postpone a series of Las Vegas residency shows at the ...
As the fiery drummer in Santana since 2016 and in Lenny Kravitz’s band from 1993 to 2007, Cindy Blackman Santana has done multiple world tours and performed in some of San Diego’s largest outdoor and ...
To the casual music fan in 1971 Carlos Santana appeared as if he was on top of the world. His band's appearance at Woodstock two short years earlier, plus their cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic ...
He is in a way a prisoner of those trademark heart-warming, dream-provoking guitar flourishes, and yet he has also experimented and collaborated as few others of his generation. But paradoxically, ...
With a new record and three major anniversary milestones on the horizon, it's shaping up to be a busy summer for Santana For Carlos Santana, the past and present are coming together in perfect harmony ...
If guitarist Carlos Santana seems relaxed, even buoyant these days, there’s a very human answer: He’s in love. The divorced, Mexican-born music legend (he moved to San Francisco as a teenager) has ...
Metallica's Kirk Hammett has found an extra gig during the pandemic, lending his guitar skills to an upcoming album from fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Carlos Santana. The two Bay Area musicians ...
Carlos Santana’s guitar tone is a distinctive thing - a raw, howling blues-cry delivered with Hispanic inflections and a pent-up eroticism. Throughout his five decades making music, however, the man ...