Guardians Carlos Santana celebrates 39th birthday with milestone hits and game-winning rally Updated: Apr. 09, 2025, 3:50 p.m. | Published: Apr. 09, 2025, 11:45 a.m.

Carlos Santana’s new album started when he brought a playlist of African songs to the producer Rick Rubin. Then the 71-year-old guitarist found the LP’s voice on the internet.

Carlos Santana’s career-spanning album “Sentient” releases on March 28. Its first single, a Smokey Robinson collab, is out today. Courtesy of Candid Records and Carlos Santana ...

Carlos Santana explains why is such an appropriate time to release his uplifting new song “Let the Guitar Play,” a collaboration with Run DMC's Darryl “DMC” McDaniels.

The song dates back to Santana’s 2021 instrumental “Song for Cindy,” but it’s reimagined here by producer Lino Nicolosi and Narada Michael Walden, along with the Run-DMC rapper.

For Carlos Santana, the Woodstock spirit is as strong now as it was 55 years ago, when he and the band that bears his name played the famed festival in upstate New York. “It’s a spiritual ...