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Carlos Santana (Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco 1947) is considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time. His name is inducted, next to the great legends of music, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, not only for his mastery with frets, but also for having crossed the border that divided rock from Latin influence.

He built up his musical personality from an early age. His father was a mariachi musician and his brother a guitarist, so he started playing the violin and guitar at age five, in his native Jalisco. During his teenage-years, in Tijuana, he perfected his technique under the tutelage of Javier Bátiz, and at 22 years old he barged into the Woodstock stage, in front of more than 400 thousand people who went crazy to the rhythm of Evil Ways.

In 2000 his album Supernatural broke several sales records and in one night he won nine Grammy Awards, surpassing Michael Jackson’s record. 

He is known as “The Guitar Shaman” for promot-ing the idea of music as spiritual medicine. True to his Chicano heritage, he rescues the myths of his ancestors to make them sacred, he acknowledges himself as a devotee of the Virgin of Guadalupe and a rebel in which the spirits of “Che” Guevara, Pancho Villa and Gerónimo converge, convinced that a “revolution without violence” is possible.