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A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

Carlos Santana

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Carlos Santana
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 20
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Jazz Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Autlán
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana
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Mexican
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He just seems as cool as ever. I can smell him. Even on the other side, there is smell. Like, when babies are born, there's two smells-one is chicken soup, which is the flesh, and the other is lilacs, which is coming from the spiritual garden. The spirit has a lilac smell.
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