subject: Santana For All Genre Of Fusion Music [print this page] Carlos Santana is a famous entity in the world of rock music. It is because of Santanas great effort that rock music got new dimension. Carlos was always influenced by music. Years he worked as a dishwasher on the streets of San Francisco. It was during his growing years that music world was slowly revolutionizing.
Folk and classic music were getting replaced by newer genre of music such as rock and salsa. In the late 1960, he formed his famous and unique rock band named after him Santana. His earlier days were not rosy. Santana had tough time during his early life. In 1965 he was granted citizenship of America. His band consisted of a bunch of talented music driven people. The basic element of his band was Latin rhythms. Drums, congas, timbales the basic instruments of music. Carlos tonal music lured the masses.
Santana was himself guitarist and played the most influential role in his band. His band gained worldwide accolades and many prestigious awards. He stormed music world and created new genre in the rock music with the fusion technique. Rock, salsa, jazz were all gained new dimension. This music was clubbed with other music to create a whole new taste of music. His strategic music fusions created a class which is quintessential of its own genre.
Santana was admirer of B.B king. Santana himself confessed that he imitated B.B king. Not only his music was influenced by B.B king but he also made facial expressions like B.B king. Although a carol was highly influenced by B.B king but over the years he started creating his original music which got more popularity than his previous music.
During his early career life suntan went many ups and down. He was basically a guitarist. He was able to create different class of music which pleased people from different corner of the world. Latin music infused with salsa, jazz, rock Santana reached new heights. This band in a very short span of time grabbed the attention of Francisco club circuit. After this the band signed series of contracts with eminent music companies. Among these Colombia records and CBS record were the most famous companies during that time. During 1960s Santana focused only on rock and contemporary music.
Santana music started changing during the year 1970s, at this stage he shifted towards spiritual and religious music. The pivotal reason for such shifting is the influence of guru Chinmoy. Guru Chinmoy and Santana became closer allies. Santana became disciple of guru and his music was drastically changed. Surrender, love, devotion are some popular musical albums of carols which were based on spiritualism.
Different time witnessed different music created by him. Again in the year 1990 he came back to commercial music. This has really helped him to get major awards and accolades. It was during1990, Santana started getting awards. His work, like gypsy, caravanserai, Blues for Salvador, The calling, Maria Maria, puts your lights on; these albums of Santana fetched enough awards and popularity for him.
