Santana (band)

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Santana
Lead member Carlos Santana
Background information
Also known as	Santana Blues Band
Origin	San Francisco, California, United States
Genre(s)	Latin rock
Years active	1966–present

Santana (originally the Santana Blues Band) is a rather quickly changing formation of musicians who accompany Carlos Santana since the late '60s. Just like Santana himself, the band is known as the one which made Latin rock famous in the rest of the world.

The band was formed 1966 in San Francisco, the first members were Tom Frazier (guitar), Mike Carabello (percussion), Rod Harper (drums), Gus Rodriguez (bass) and Gregg Rolie (keyboard, vocal). In the following years and decades the members of the group changed very often, and from 1971 to 1972 there was a short cooperation break between the group and Santana.

1 Current lineup
2 Previous band members
3 Discography
4 External links

[edit] Current lineup

Carlos Santana - Guitar & Vocals
Chester Thompson - Keyboards
Benny Rietveld - Bass Guitar
Dennis Chambers - Drums
Andy Vargas - Vocals
Karl Perazzo - Timbales, percussion
Raul Rekow - Congas, percussion
Bill Ortiz - Trumpet

[edit] Previous band members

vocal
Gregg Rolie - 1966-72 Leon Thomas - 1973 Leon Patillo - 1974-75 Greg Walker - 1975-76, 1976-79, 1983-85 Luther Rabb - 1976 Joel Badie - 1976	Alex Ligertwood - 1979-83, 1984-85, 1987, 1989-91, 1992-94 Buddy Miles - 1986, 1987 Tony Lindsay - 1991, 1995 -2003 Vorriece Cooper - 1993 Curtis Salgado - 1995
keyboards
Gregg Rolie - 1966-72 Tom Coster - 1972-78, 1983-84 Richard Kermode - 1972-73 Chris Rhyne - 1978-79 Alan Pasqua - 1979-80	Richard Baker - 1980-82 David Sancious - 1984 Sterling Crew - 1985 Lawrence Rogers - 1994-1998
guitars
Myron Dove - 2003 - 2005 Tom Frazier - 1966-67 Neal Schon - 1971-72	Chris Solberg - 1978-80 Buddy Miles - 1986
bass
Gus Rodriguez - 1966-67 David Brown - 1967-71, 1974-76 Tom Rutley - 1971-72 Doug Rauch - 1972-73 Byron Miller - 1976 Pablo Telez - 1976-77	David Margen - 1977-82 Keith Jones - 1983-84, 1989 Alphonso Johnson - 1985-89, 1992 Benny Rietveld - 1990-92, 1997- Myron Dove - 1992-1996
drums
Rod Harper - 1966-67 Bob Livingston - 1967-69 Michael Shrieve - 1969-74, 1988 Ndugu Leon Chancler - 1974-76, 1988 Gaylord Birch - 1976, 1991 Graham Lear - 1976-84, 1985-87 Chester C. Thompson - 1984	Walfredo Reyes - 1989-91, 1992-93 Billy Johnson - 1991, 1994, 2000-2001 Rodney Holmes - 1993-94, 1997-2000 Tommie Bradford - 1994 Horacio 'El Negro' Hernandez - 1997 Ricky Wellman - 1997
percussion
Michael Carabello (Congas) - 1966-67, 1969-71 Marcus Malone (Congas) -1967-69 Jose 'Chepito' Areas (Timbales) -1969-77, 1988-89 Rico Reyes (Timbales) -1971, 1972 Victor Pantoja (Timbales) -1971 Coke Escovedo (Timbales) -1971-72	Pete Escovedo (Timbales) -1971, 1977-79 James Mingo Lewis (Congas) -1972-1972 Armando Peraza (Congas, Bongos) -1976, 1977-90 Francisco Aguabella (Congas) - 1969 - 1971 Orestes Vilato (Timbales) -1980-87
other instruments
Jules Broussard - Saxophone 1974-75 Oran Coltrane - Saxophone-1992	Russell Tubbs - Flute - 1978