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In 1990, Santana left Columbia Records after twenty-two years and signed with Polygram. The following year, he made a guest appearance on Ottmar Liebert's album Solo Para Ti, on the songs "Reaching out 2 U" and on a cover of his own song, "Samba Pa Ti". In 1992, Santana hired jam band Phish as his opening act. He remains close to the band today, especially to guitarist Trey Anastasio.
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Santana, Anthony Hamilton and Robert Randolph celebrated the release of his 38th album with a very special concert from the Hammerstein Ballroom in N.Y.C. This was a truly magical evening for all.
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Santana's record sales in the 1990s were very low and towards the end of the decade he was without a contract. However Arista Records' Clive Davis, who had worked with Santana at Columbia, signed him and encouraged him to record a star-studded album with mostly younger artists. The result was 1999's Supernatural, which included collaborations with Everlast, Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, Eric Clapton, Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Cee-Lo, Maná, Dave Matthews and others.
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An important share of this success goes to Santana, the story of 1999, whose Supernatural album (their first #1 album since 1971) reached 6-times platinum in less than six months. It was bolstered by "Smooth," co-written by and featuring Rob Thomas of matchbox 20, not only the first #1 single of Santana's career, but Soundscan's longest-running #1 pop single of the year at 12 consecutive weeks.
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Supernatural and the different tracks on it then won nine Grammy Awards (eight for Santana personally), including Album of the Year, Record of the Year for "Smooth", and Song of the Year for Thomas and Itaal Shur. Santana's acceptance speeches described his feelings about music's place in one's spiritual existence.
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