"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 4/12/24)
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Real Live Certified
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Critic Consensus
Based on 116 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Carlos Santana is rated as an entertaining live performer, with many notable strengths. Carlos Santana concert reviews describe live shows and performances as powerful, extraordinary, exhilarating, rhythmic, glorious, transcendent, and dynamic.
Carlos Santana (born as Carlos Augusto Santana Alves on 20 July 1947 - Autlan de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico) is a Mexican-born American rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion.
It was Cinco de Mayo Weekend here deep in the heart of Texas – and who more appropriate to be playing in the Houston area than Carlos Santana? Certainly, we would welcome him any time to Texas because he is an extremely talented guitarist
Carlos Santana returned to the stage with his band for an emotional and astounding marathon concert at the California Mid-State Fair on Saturday, July 23rd.
As Ravel’s “Bolero” built to a final crescendo, its orchestral majesty was met by the now-iconic looping percussion from Santana’s 1969 appearance at Woodstock; a performance- particularly, the incendiary “Soul Sacrifice”- that launched over 50 years of musical greatness.