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Carlos Santana: Family
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Carlos Santana's music is a family thing for Chicanos. It's what you listen to when you're all hanging out: Drinking some beers, listening to "Oye Como Va" and cooking some barbecue is the best thing in the world. His music hits right to the pump -- right to the heart.
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Prepare: Carlos Santana took up the guitar at the age of eight when his family lived in Tijuana, Mexico. Combining the sounds of Latin music, rock music and the blues, he quickly built up an international following of fans drawn to his humanitarian message. His biography can be found on a promotional site for his records at http://www.santana.com/carlos/carlos.asp.
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One of the more prominent figures to emerge from the lively West Coast rock scene of the late 60s, Carlos Santana was born into a family with a long history in the music field. He spent his early years in Mexico, receiving his first musical instruction from his father, a Mariachi violinist, who attempted for several years to train his son on the instrument. By the time he reached the age of eight... little Carlos had fallen under the influence of blues performers such as B. B. King and John Lee Hooker, and the violin was abandoned in favor of the guitar.
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Carlos Santana was born in Mexico. His father, José, an accomplished mariachi violinist, introduced Carlos to ‘traditional music,’ in the village of Autlan, at the age of five,.The family moved to the border boom town of Tijuana in 1955, where Carlos seriously took up guitar, studying and emulating the sounds of B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, T. Bone Walker and other blues greats he heard on the radio.
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Carlos Augusto Alves Santana was born in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico. His father was a Mariachi violinist, according to the introduction of "Best of Carlos Santana" by Wolf Marshall, P2. He encouraged his son's early interest in music the younger Santana took up the violin at the age of five. It was when his family moved to Tijuana several years later, that Santana began his lifelong relationship with the guitar, the instrument that would make him a musical icon. He was fascinated by and emulated his guitar heroes including John Lee Hooker, T. Bone Walker, and B.B. King, whom he heard on American radio stations from across the border.
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More interested in rock 'n' roll than the mariachi sounds anyway, Santana began to learn the guitar at age eight, imitating the style of greats such as B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, and T-Bone Walker. However, he still credits his father with teaching him to appreciate music in general. After the family of 12 moved to the border town of Tijuana in 1955, he began playing in nightclubs along the strip there when he was just eleven years old.
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