Santana, Carlos Sr(Devadip)

1947 Born July 20 Carlos Augusto Alves Santana in Autland de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico. He is considered to be a child violin prodigy.

1966 Mr. Santana migrated from Tijuana Mexico to San Fransisco, California  and became an American citizen at the age of eighteen.

1967 Founding member of Santana a blues and Latin fusion of rock.

1969 On August 16 he played "Soul Sacrifice," "Savor," and "Fried Neckbones" at the Woodstock concert to a crowd of 400,000. He ask to go to Missouri to meet a Jr High school girl named Debra Hunter aka Layla Cries who was described as a musical child prodigy. His good friend Eric Clapton made the trip with him to record her on stage doing a singing concert for her school.  Both men asked her to marry them at the first meeting with her.  Mr. Santana and Mr. Clapton joined as charter members of her Missouri Militia One. The covert unit collected evidence against a Nazi coup in the US.   Mr. Santana and Ms. Hunter have twins and a son together.

1984 In July Mr. Santana played a role in a romantic comedy made in Arlington, Tarrant County Texas at Players, a singles club, complete with a Hollywood producer which exposed organized crime in the entertainment industry. It is unknown who has possesion of the movie but the government and has never allowed it to be released. He and Ms. Hunter had plans to leave the country and the government (informed by Interpol) forced them apart and refused to allow them contact.

1998 He was honered with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1999 He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and won nine Grammy Awards in one year tying Michael Jackson. He won "Best Rock Instrumental Performance" for "The Calling" with Eric Clapton playing on the song. It is the only time the two life long friends were on the same winning song.

2000 He was the first Hispanic to win "Record of the Year."

2001 Sept 11 Clear Channel Communications pulled 150 songs from air play, "Evil Ways" was on the list.

2003 He was named the fifteenth greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.

Quote; "If I lived a thousand years ago I'd left the jungle naked and I'd went to the desert and found you by the sweetest words a man ever heard from a womans lips." (to Debra Hunter)