MUSICIAN

Carlos Santana

1947 - Today

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Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán (Spanish: [ˈkaɾlos umˈbeɾto sanˈtana βaraˈɣan] ; born July 20, 1947) is an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the rock band Santana. Born and raised in Mexico where he developed his musical background, he rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States with Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and roll and Latin American jazz. Its sound featured his melodic, blues-based lines set against Latin American and African rhythms played on percussion instruments not generally heard in rock, such as timbales and congas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlos Santana has received more than 9,153,410 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia. Carlos Santana is the 83rd most popular musician (down from 66th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Mexican Musician.

Carlos Santana is a Mexican and American guitarist who has sold over 100 million albums, won 8 Grammy Awards, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Carlos Santana ranks 83 out of 3,175. Before him are Yehudi Menuhin, Robert Johnson, Iggy Pop, Giorgio Moroder, Steven Van Zandt, and Lou Reed. After him are Sia, Cosima Wagner, Till Lindemann, Richard Wright, Ziryab, and Sviatoslav Richter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Carlos Santana ranks 29. Before him are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Paco de Lucía, Michael Porter, O. J. Simpson, France Gall, and Iggy Pop. After him are Robert Kiyosaki, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, Glenn Close, Farrah Fawcett, Herman Van Rompuy, and Tom Clancy.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Carlos Santana ranks 10 out of 729. Before him are Moctezuma II (1466), Emiliano Zapata (1879), Carlos Slim (1940), Pancho Villa (1878), Octavio Paz (1914), and Porfirio Díaz (1830). After him are Cuauhtémoc (1495), Salma Hayek (1966), Benito Juárez (1806), Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794), Agustín de Iturbide (1783), and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (1953).

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Among MUSICIANS In Mexico

Among musicians born in Mexico, Carlos Santana ranks 1. After him are Consuelo Velázquez (1916), Armando Manzanero (1935), José José (1948), Abraham Laboriel (1947), Antonio Sánchez (1971), and Carla Morrison (1986).

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