Santana have featured numerous different musicians in an ever-fluid big band
line-up, but the one constant in their four decades at the top is the
innovative, visionary Mexican guitarist Carlos Santana. The last major band to
emerge from the San Francisco psychedelic era of the late 1960s, they achieved
huge success with their jazz-rock-Latin fusions, forged on the frontman's
thrilling guitar and incessant dance rhythms. Born in Mexico on July 20, 1947,
Carlos Santana moved to San Francisco from Mexico in the early 1960s, initially
making his mark with the Santana Blues Band, bef...