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Carlos Santana: San Francisco
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Carlos Santana is rightfully credited (along with Ritchie Valens, Tito Puente, Jose Feliciano and Los Lobos) with bringing Latin rock into the American mainstream. We shouldn't forget, though, that Santana was ... an important fixture in the late '60s San Francisco music scene that also included the likes of Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, all of whom owe a good measure of their success to promoter Bill Graham and his legendary Fillmore West.
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CARLOS SANTANA and his wife DEBORAH are to divorce after 34 years of marriage. Deborah filed the papers in California's Marin County Superior Court on 19 October (07), citing irreconcilable differences. She has previously spoken of the guitar great's infidelity and opened up about his unfaithfulness in her 2005 memoir, Space Between the Stars. The couple - who have three children together, aged 17, 22 and 23 - have collaborated on numerous business projects throughout their union. They set up the non-profit Milagro Foundation, which provides support for underprivileged children, and earlier this year (07), announced plans to launch a chain of Mexican restaurants in the San Francisco Bay area. The 60-year-old musician's spokesman, Michael Jensen, says, "(The divorce) is a private matter and there is no comment."
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Around the early 1960s, Santana's family moved to San Francisco, California, but he soon ran away to return to Tijuana and play the circuit again. His older brother came to retrieve him, though, and he ended up in San Francisco with the rest of his family, where he went to Mission High School and learned English. There he ... discovered a thriving cultural scene with a diversity of musical styles, including jazz, blues, international folk music, and classical salsa by the likes of Tito Puente and Eddie Palmieri.
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