
Carlos Santana on New Album ‘Africa Speaks’: ‘People Need Rejoicing’
With a new Rick Rubin–produced LP and summer tour, the guitar icon reflects on his band's half-century legacy and why the message of Woodstock still resonates
With a new Rick Rubin–produced LP and summer tour, the guitar icon reflects on his band's half-century legacy and why the message of Woodstock still resonates
The group also performed three other songs off air
Half a century after the Mexican American rockers wowed hippies with their interpretation of a song by a Nigerian percussionist, they pay tribute to the African continent as a whole
Carlos Santana, Rob Thomas, Clive Davis and others involved recall the debates, arguments, legal hassles, subterfuge marketing and last-minute breakouts that went into the making of one of pop's last multi-generational hits.
Explosive song is from new album Santana calls "killer, African, dynamic, vibrant, filled with exuberance"
Guitarist teams with singer Buika for first sample from upcoming LP Africa Speaks
With a new EP, 'In Search of Mona Lisa,' out soon and a tour celebrating 50 years of Woodstock booked for the summer, the guitarist has big plans for 2019
North American Global Consciousness tour kicks off in March, bookended by Las Vegas residency
Guitarist's brief stint at House of Blues follows fall 2018 run
The guitarist talks training his inner child, aging gracefully and how he controls unruly fans