Carlos Santana fused rock and Latin rhythms, defying all odds to create a groundbreaking new genre. His electrifying ...

Rock stars often live wild lives while they make chart-topping music. And in the case of classic rock icon Carlos Santana, that’s certainly the case. Younger music fans might remember Santana from the ...

When legendary guitarist Carlos Santana took the stage at Woodstock back in 1969 he was just 22 years old. He was an unknown and he was also hallucinating. Fifty years later, the wildly successful ...

It's been 50 years since Carlos Santana and his pioneering Latin-rock band made their breakthrough performance at the landmark 1969 Woodstock festival. And it's been 19 years since Santana's ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the famed music festival Woodstock, and a half-century after playing there, musician Carlos Santana is still going strong. In the second of our two-part series ...

Woodstock 50 may be canceled, but the spirit of the celebrated 1969 festival lives on every time Carlos Santana performs. Before he arrived onstage Saturday at Xcel Energy Center, film clips of ...

Santana and his band started playing around San Francisco in the late ’60s, along with groups like Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. The band ended up getting signed to Columbia Records, and ...

“I don't even know how I walked, and next thing I know we're playing this set, and I think I'm going by what Shirley MacLaine calls muscle memory,” he confessed. “When we got to ‘Soul Sacrifice,’ I ...

The guitar roared like a chainsaw. The drummer and three percussionists pounded away on their drums as though riding a jackhammer beneath a hot sun. They were all pinned beneath lights and 16,000 ...

Ask Carlos Santana to describe his inimitable guitar tone, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer doesn’t hesitate. “My sound is the sound of a woman,” says Santana, 75, adding his current playlist is ...

The post Carlos Santana Truly Arrived After Woodstock appeared first on Consequence of Sound. In the Season 11 premiere, we’re dialing back the clock to the late ’60s, a time when Santana and his band ...

If you thought Woodstock legend Carlos Santana was the O.G. hippie in the ’60s, think again. In fact, the 76-year-old guitar hero was once an anti-weed warrior as his namesake band was huffing — and ...