Santana Ringtones
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is best-known today as Carlos Santana or simply Santana. He was born in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico on 20 July 1947. Nowadays, Santana is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-born American Latin rock musician and guitarist. Originally, he became famous in the late 60s and early 70s with his band, "the Santana Blues Band", going mostly under the name "Santana". They created a highly successful blend of salsa, rock, blues, and jazz fusion through all of their hits. Their complete sound presented interesting mixture of some high-pitched and clean guitar lines set against usual Latin American instrumentation such as timbales and congas. Santana continued to work in these music styles over the following decades, and experienced a sudden resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 90s. Over his successful music career he has sold an estimated 80 million albums all over the world. The development of the talented musician Santana began when at the end of 1966, Tom Frazier - another skillful guitarist from this period - decided to form a new rock band. A bit later, he joined Santana - playing guitar and singing, Mike Carabello - percussion, Rod Harper - on the drums, Gus Rodriguez - as bass guitarist, and Seattle native Gregg Rolie - playing organ and also singing, to create "the Santana Blues Band". Originally, this group recorded their hits as a collective, as it would through the early 70s. In 1970, the band reached its early commercial top with their second compilation, "Abraxas", which reached number one on different charts all over the world and went on to sell over four million copies. The basic instrumentalist in the creation of this album was the pianist Alberto Gianquinto, who advised the group to keep themselves away from lengthy percussion jams and to concentrate on tighter song compositions instead. Thus, the innovative Santana musical blend soon made a number-four hit "Black magic woman", and a number-thirteen song out of "Oye como va" of the salsa legend Tito Puente. "Abraxas" has since this moment been placed on several "best albums of all time" lists. Carlos Santana, together with the classic Santana lineup from their first two albums, was led into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
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