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recognition and kudos have been legion. The Santana Band was the first
to earn CBS Record’s
Crystal
Globe Award for sales of more than five million albums internationally.
Carlos has been voted
Best
Pop-Rock Guitarist multiple times in Playboy Magazine’s annual Reader’s
Poll. He received a
1988
GRAMMY for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and was the subject of a
special Recording
Academy
(NARAS) tribute concert during the 1996 GRAMMY Awards, in conjunction with
his
induction
into the Hollywood Rock Walk. He’s received ten Bay Area Music Awards,
including six
Best
Guitarist and three Musician Of The Year nods, and in 1997 was among the
select inaugural
group--
along with Bill Graham and Jerry Garcia-- inducted into the BAMMY Hall
Of Fame; that same
year,
he was named Latino Music Legend of the Year by the Chicano Music Awards.
In 1996,
Billboard
Magazine bestowed Carlos with the Century Award, their highest honor for
lifetime creative
achievement,
and in 1998, he was immortalized in the entertainment world with a star
on the
Hollywood
Walk of Fame.
Carlos
Santana’s latest album release, Supernatural, the 36th of his career, spotlights
a legendary
artist
at the peak of his powers. Supernatural has sold in excess of ten million
copies, and has been
officially
certified ‘Dectillion Platinum’ – Diamond Status—by the R.I.A.A. It won
nine GRAMMYs at
the
42nd Annual GRAMMY Awards in February 2000, including Album Of the Year,
Best Rock
Album,
and Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year for ‘Smooth,’ Santana’s unforgettable
collaboration
with alternative-rock favorite Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas. In 1999 anyone
on the
planet
with a radio couldn’t help but feel the sultry groove of this Latin flavored,
mid-tempo rock
masterpiece.
Carlos explains that "Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain…you
hear them
and
they’re affixed to you"—‘Smooth’ proved its staying power with a record
12 consecutive weeks at
#1
on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, making it the longest running #1 single of
1999.
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