New
Santana Album September 6, 2005 June
23, 2005 - Carlos Santana's latest disc, originally
due this month, will be out on September 6th, 2005 on Arista. Following the formula
of his comeback success, this album will feature collaborations with guest artists
Mary J. Blige, Los Lonely Boys, Sean Paul, and Black-eyed Peas. Metallica guitarist
Kirk Hammett, and Outcasts Big Boi will lend their musical talent to the outing.
The disc, titled "All That I Am", will also include another outing featuring
singer Michelle Branch. - by Cheryl Philips
Santana
Get's Head Start Tour on New "All That I Am." CD May
26, 2005 - Santana may have pushed back the release
date of their new album to September 6 but it's full speed ahead for the new tour
to support it. Carlos Santana and company will
kick off a north American tour on May 30 in Tampa, Florida and end on October
14 in Carson, CA (dates below). "All That I Am" the follow-up to 2002's
"Shaman" will follow Santana's recent formula of including big name
guest vocalists. This time around Los Lonely Boys will be guesting as well as
Mary J. Blige, Will I Am and OutKast's Big Boi. Santana
said the album is in it's final stages. "'All That I Am' is an extension
and continuation of a vision co-created by Mr. Clive Davis and myself," Carlos
Santana said in a statement. "We equate what we do with the dimensions
of a three-ring circus or a Cirque du Soleil where children, teenagers, parents
and grandparents can share unity and harmony in the family of life. We create
songs and magic pairing to bring joy and happiness to the listener." - by
John Beaudin
May
2005 30 - Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre @ State
Fairgrounds June
2005 1 - Miami, FL
- American Airlines Arena 3, 4 - Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheatre 5
- Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre 7 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather
Post Pavilion 8 - Philadelphia, PA - Penn's Landing 11, 12 - Atlantic City,
NJ - Borgata Hotel/Casino 14 - Holmdel, NJ - P.N.C. Bank Arts Center 15
- New York, NY - Madison Square Garden 17 - Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center 19
- Wallingford, CT - Oakdale Theatre 21 - Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre 22
- Quebec City, Quebec - Colisee Pepsi 24 - Toronto, Ontario - Molson Amphitheatre 25
- Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre 26 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom
Music Center 29 - Saint Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center July
2005 1 - Noblesville,
IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center 2 - Chicago, IL - Taste of Chicago 3
- Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest
September
2005 15 - San Jose,
CA - HP Pavilion 16 - Sacramento, CA - Arco Arena 17 - Reno, NV - Downtown
Events Center 19 - Portland, OR - Rose Garden 20 - Everett, WA - Everett
Events Center 21 - Vancouver, British Columbia - General Motors Place 23
- Edmonton, Alberta - Rexall Place 24 - Calgary, Alberta - Pengrowth Saddledome 27,
28 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks
October
2005 1, 2 - Dallas,
TX - Nokia Theatre 4 - Corpus Christi, TX - American Bank Center 5 - Laredo,
TX - Laredo Entertainment Center 6 - San Antonio, TX - SBC Center 8 - El
Paso, TX - Don Haskins Center 9 - Albuquerque, NM - Journal Pavilion 11
- Tucson, AZ - Anselmo Valencia Amphitheatre 12 - Chula Vista, CA - Coors Amphitheatre 14
- Carson, CA - Home Depot Center
All
Star Tribute For Carlos Santana July
29, 2004 - Carlos Santana will be recognized
for his professional, cultural and philanthropic accomplishments at the next Latin
Grammy Awards. Santana has been named Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year
and will be honored via performances by Black Eyed Peas, Dave Matthews, Matchbox
Twenty's Rob Thomas, Robi Draco Rosa and Ozomatli, among others. The tribute will
be held Aug. 30th at Los Angeles's Century Plaza Hotel.
Santana
Lines Up Summer Tour and New Album March
18, 2004 - Carlos Santana says his next album
should be out by year's end at the latest in early 2005. The official Santana
website says, Santana and Keyboardist Chester Thompson have "drawn up a blueprint
for the next Santana album" and the two have "started to write new songs
together and work out arrangement ideas for songs the band has already played."
As for the new tour only Europeans will witness Carlos and company with dates
starting in Amneville, France on July 2 and ending in Schwaebisch, Germany on
July 25th. Santana donated proceeds to his last tour to ANSA - Artists for a New
South Africa's "Amandla AIDS Fund". The 2.5 million raised was used
for South African organizations working on the frontlines to combat HIV/AIDS.
Check out the official ANSA website http://www.ansafrica.org/
2003
Billboard Music Awards Finalists December
3, 2003 - Rapper 50 Cent leads the finalists for the 2003 Billboard Awards, which
will be presented Dec. 10 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The Shady/Aftermath/Interscope
artist is a contender in six categories, including artist of the year, album of
the year ("Get Rich or Die Tryin'"), R&B/Hip-Hop artist of the year
and Hot 100 single of the year ("In Da Club").R&B
stars R. Kelly (pictured above) and Beyoncé
are each finalists in five categories, while Sean Paul and the Dixie Chicks are
contenders in four. Read More. Carlos
Santana No Fan Of Smooth Jazz July
18, 2003 - Guitar legend Carlos Santana recently spoke frankly to the Denver Post
about Spirituality, his comeback and his distaste for Smooth Jazz. Here's what
he said, "I will say that, to me, smooth jazz is John Coltrane and Miles
Davis playing ballads. What they call smooth jazz today is more like coma music.
You're in a (expletive) coma and you've got tubes up your nose and you're begging,
'Please unplug me or turn it off.' It has no huevos, no vitality or vibrancy.
These people are afraid to show real emotion on the radio. I don't mean screaming
or rapping until they're blue. I'm talking about putting heart and soul and wisdom
into the music." Fattburger recently covered Santana's "Black Magic
Woman." For the whole interview go to. http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E24769%257E1499101,00.html?search=filter
. Thanks to Carol Archer of R&R magazine
for first reporting on the story at http://www.radioandrecords.com/Formats/sj_home.htm
.
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3, 2003 - Rapper 50 Cent leads the finalists for the 2003 Billboard Awards, which
will be presented Dec. 10 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The Shady/Aftermath/Interscope
artist is a contender in six categories, including artist of the year, album of
the year ("Get Rich or Die Tryin'"), R&B/Hip-Hop artist of the year
and Hot 100 single of the year ("In Da Club").R&B
stars 
July
18, 2003 - Guitar legend Carlos Santana recently spoke frankly to the Denver Post
about Spirituality, his comeback and his distaste for Smooth Jazz. Here's what
he said, "I will say that, to me, smooth jazz is John Coltrane and Miles
Davis playing ballads. What they call smooth jazz today is more like coma music.
You're in a (expletive) coma and you've got tubes up your nose and you're begging,
'Please unplug me or turn it off.' It has no huevos, no vitality or vibrancy.
These people are afraid to show real emotion on the radio. I don't mean screaming
or rapping until they're blue. I'm talking about putting heart and soul and wisdom
into the music." Fattburger recently covered Santana's "Black Magic
Woman." For the whole interview go to. 
