Ultimate Santana Quiz: Test Your Guitar Karma

He grew up playing mariachi violin in his father’s band before switching to electric guitar as a teen — his roots in traditional Mexican music directly shaped Santana’s signature Latin-rock sound

“Black Magic Woman,” now synonymous with Santana, was originally a slow Fleetwood Mac song by Peter Green — Santana reworked it with Afro‑Latinx rhythms and a Latin-jazz jam, turning it into a global hit