--- name: "Carlos Santana" canonical: "https://film.one/person/carlos-santana-115089" fi1m_id: "carlos-santana-115089" imdb_id: "nm0005396" tmdb_id: 115089 wikidata_id: "Q819016" roles: ["Composer"] born: "20 July 1947" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-04T20:19:14.991876+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Carlos Santana ## Identity Carlos Santana - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/carlos-santana-115089 - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** carlos-santana-115089 - **IMDb ID:** nm0005396 - **TMDB ID:** 115089 - **Wikidata ID:** Q819016 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Santana, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q819016, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005396/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/115089 Composer. Born 20 July 1947 in Autlán de Navarro (México). ## Details - **Work:** Composer - **Born:** 20 July 1947, Autlán de Navarro (México) - **Also known as:** Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán, Carlos Augusto Alves Santana , Santana - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 crew, 1 other - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 80 (1), 1980s 72 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Santana, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q819016, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005396/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/115089 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*La Bamba*](https://film.one/film/la-bamba.md) (72) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Carlos Santana is a Mexican-American guitarist and composer. Born Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán on 20 July 1947 in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico, he moved to San Francisco as a child and formed the band Santana in 1966. Santana gained prominence after performing at the Woodstock festival in 1969. His band fused rock with Latin and jazz elements. He composed the original score for the 1987 biographical film *La Bamba*, alongside Miles Goodman. Santana has received ten Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with his band in 1998. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Crew (1) — the average rests on these - *La Bamba* (1987), Fi1m 72, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/la-bamba.md) ### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *Woodstock* (1970), Fi1m 80, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/woodstock.md) ## Complete filmography (24) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity* (2023), series, Producer - *Fandango at the Wall* (2020), Executive Producer - *Dolores* (2017), Executive Producer - *Santana - Montreux Jazz Festival 2015* (2015), Actor - *Santana Live at Montreux 2011* (2012), Author, Original Music Composer, Compositor - *Santana: Greatest Hits - Live at Montreux 2011* (2011), Executive Producer - *Woodstock: Untold Stories* (2009), Actor - *Clarence Gatemouth Brown: Live At Montreux 2004* (2008), Actor - *Buddy Guy: Live At Montreux 2004* (2008), Actor - *Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics: Rockin' the Sixties* (2005), Actor - *Bobby Parker: Live at Montreux 2004* (2004), Actor - *Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux* (2004), Actor - *Santana* (2003), as Guitar / Vocals - *Ultimate Albums* (2002), series, Actor - *John Lee Hooker - That's My Story* (2001), Actor - *La Bamba* (1987), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/la-bamba.md) - *Santana: East Berlin 1987* (1987), Director - *Santana Live at Hammersmith Odeon, December 15th, 1976* (1977), as guitar, percussion, backing vocals - *Santana* (1974), Actor - *Santana - Live at Tanglewood 1970* (1970), as guitar, vocals - *San Francisco Rock: A Night at the Family Dog* (1970), Actor - *Got No Shoes, Got No Blues: the Texas International Pop Festival* (1969), Actor - *Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana & Steve Lukather Live In Japan*, Actor - *Tramaine Hawkins Live*, Actor ## Gallery - ![its an image of Carlos Santana](https://film.one/media/person/570954/gallery-50f20c19b4f5.jpg) its an image of Carlos Santana — ian, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Es_un_archivo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Carlos Santana 2 Carlos Santana: The inner secrets tour 1978 Groenenoordhallen Leiden The Netherlands](https://film.one/media/person/570954/gallery-a552e5bdb902.jpg) Carlos Santana 2 Carlos Santana: The inner secrets tour 1978 Groenenoordhallen Leiden The Netherlands — Chris Hakkens, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Carlos_Santana-2_1978_by_Chris_Hakkens.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Santana beim gemeinsamen Auftritt mit Joan Baez und Bob Dylan(welche Mischung!) , Hamburg, Mai 1984](https://film.one/media/person/570954/gallery-04ddda4a2b1f.jpg) Santana beim gemeinsamen Auftritt mit Joan Baez und Bob Dylan(welche Mischung!) , Hamburg, Mai 1984 — Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Carlos-Santana_in_Hamburg_1.jpg/1280px-Carlos-Santana_in_Hamburg_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Carlos Santana at the ONEXONE benefit in San Francisco, October 2008](https://film.one/media/person/570954/gallery-8a62e4e93fee.jpg) Carlos Santana at the ONEXONE benefit in San Francisco, October 2008 — Seher Sikandar for rehes creative, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Carlossantana_%28300dpi%29.jpg/1280px-Carlossantana_%28300dpi%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Carlos Santana](https://film.one/media/person/570954/gallery-949425657c22.jpg) Carlos Santana — Image via TMDB - ![Carlos Santana](https://film.one/media/person/570954/gallery-4e38b9db5018.jpg) Carlos Santana — Image via TMDB - ![Carlos Santana 5 Carlos Santana: The inner secrets tour 1978 Groenenoordhallen Leiden The Netherlands](https://film.one/media/person/570954/gallery-3ca0b5c6ef01.jpg) Carlos Santana 5 Carlos Santana: The inner secrets tour 1978 Groenenoordhallen Leiden The Netherlands — Chris Hakkens, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Carlos_Santana_1978_by_Chris_Hakkens.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Live in London (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/570954/gallery-fe423e2dda46.jpg) Live in London (2018) — Eddie Janssens, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Carlos_santana-1547303295_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Carlos_santana-1547303295_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 6 won - American Book Awards 2015: American Book Awards (won) - Billboard Spirit of Hope Award 2015: Billboard Spirit of Hope Award (won) - California Hall of Fame 2011: California Hall of Fame (won) - Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award 2009: Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award (won) - Great Immigrants Award 2007: Great Immigrants Award (won) - Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year 2004: Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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