Did Santana ever do vocals?

Carlos Santana has sung before, but his accent and Spanish-first knowledge and pronuciation of English had his band recruiting lead vocalists throughout Carlos' career. He does have an occasional lead or backing vocal, but the Santana songs you know are primarily from: Gregg Rolie (1966-1972) - moved on to Journey. read more

Santana shared vocals with the original Woodstock Santana band singer Greg Rollie (the most innovative of all his bands). He does not have a Mexican accent, born in, yes, Mexican but grew up in San Francisco. read more

Of course, the 21st-century formula for Carlos is to allow the youth of new faces to come in with new songs that provided Santana freedom to create huge guitar riffs to the feel of the new songs - Santana sings lead on none of these, though his guitar work landed him #15 on Rolling Stones' list of 100 all-time guitarists and his band at #90 all-time of 100 most influential rock bands. read more

In 1998, the band Santana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Carlos Santana, José "Chepito" Areas, David Brown, Gregg Rolie, Mike Carabello, and Michael Shrieve The band has earned nine Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards, the latter all in 2000. read more