SANTANA IV Debuts at #5 On Billboard's Top 200 Chart 

New Studio Album Reunites Legendary Band Lineup 45 Years After Santana III 

LAS VEGAS,  -- Santana IV has debuted at #5 on Billboard's Top 200 Chart, #2 on Billboard's Top Current Chart, #2 on Billboard's Rock Chart, and #1 on Billboard's Independent Albums Chart. Released April 15, 2016 on Santana IV Records with distribution by Thirty Tigers/RED Distribution, the wildly anticipated studio album reunites the revered early '70s lineup of guitar icon Carlos Santana (guitar, vocals), Gregg Rolie (keyboards, lead vocals), Neal Schon (guitar, vocals), Michael Carabello (percussion) and Michael Shrieve (drums). The album signifies the first time in 45 years – since 1971's multi-platinum classic Santana III – that the quintet has recorded together. This album marks Santana's fourteenth Top 10 album."We are thrilled with the opening week's results of our new record Santana IV," says Michael Vrionis, President of Santana IV Records, LLC. "People were waiting for this project for over 40 years. We knew from the first day in the studio that this music would resonate with our fans. We can't thank them enough for their continued support."
Santana IV features 16 all-new tracks written and produced by the band that burst with the same unparalleled energy and superlative musicianship that made Santana a pioneering force in world music and a household name across the globe. Joining the core Santana IV band on the album are current Santana members Karl Perazzo (percussion) and Benny Rietveld (bass), with the legendary vocalist Ronald Isley guesting on two cuts.
Few bands can pick up a musical dialog after 45 years apart, but on Santana IV each band member reaches a new level of virtuosity and communal intuition on a collection of songs that easily stands side-by-side with the group's treasured early work.
"When you can go back and break new ground with joy and determination – and some whoop-ass energy – it gets you going," says Santana. "I think we achieved something very rare. This music was screaming to come out of us. It wasn't about nostalgia. It was about passion."
Santana IV is currently available on CD, Double 180 Gram Vinyl with Download Card and Digital configurations.

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ROD STEWART AND SANTANA: THE VOICE, THE GUITAR, THE SONGS

18-CITY NORTH AMERICAN TOUR KICKING-OFF MAY 23

 

HEADS TO SCOTTRADE CENTER JUNE 6

 

TICKETS ON-SALE BEGINNING MONDAY, MARCH 3 AT 10:00 AM

 

 

LOS ANGELES - February 26, 2014 – AEG Live announced today that Rod Stewart and Santana, two of music’s most influential hit makers and dynamic live performers, will join forces and embark on an 18-concert North American tour this summer. Kicking-off May 23 in Albany, NY, the tour unites two musical trailblazers who have helped redefine the sound of popular music for the last five decades through their combined love of rock, soul, world rhythms, funk, jazz and blues. Both Stewart and Santana are known for their high-energy, hit-packed live concerts -- making the combination an incomparable experience for all music fans. (tour itinerary below)

 

Tickets for the tour will go on sale beginning Friday, March 7 at 10AM (local time). American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets for Rosemont, IL before the general public beginning Monday, March 3rd at 10AM (CST) through Thursday, March 6th at 10PM (CST). For all other U.S. markets, beginning Tuesday, March 4th at 10AM through Thursday, March 6th at 10PM (local time). For Canadian markets, beginning Tuesday, March 4th at 10AM through Thursday, March 6th at 5PM (local time). For the Wantagh concert, Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday, March 4th at 10AM through Citi’s Private Pass Program.

 

With his singular voice, narrative songwriting and passionate live performances, Rod Stewart has built one of the most successful and enduring music careers of all time. In a career spanning more than five decades, he has amassed sales of more than 150 million albums worldwide and has countless chart-topping hits and industry accolades - including two inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2007, he was bestowed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by the Queen of England. In May 2013, Stewart released Time, his first rock album in a dozen years, on Capitol Records. The album features 11 original tracks and marks Rod’s return to songwriting after

nearly two decades. Time entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 1, setting a new British record for the longest gap between chart-topping albums by an artist -- and in the US, it marked Stewart’s highest-charting album of original material since 1979. In addition to touring, Stewart headlines one of Las Vegas’ most critically and commercially successful residencies at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

 

For forty years and as many albums later, Santana has sold more than 100 million records and reached more than 100 million fans at concerts worldwide. To date, Santana has won ten GRAMMY ® Awards and three Latin GRAMMY ® Awards. He won a record-tying nine GRAMMYs for a single project for 1999’s Supernatural (including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for “Smooth”). He has also received the Billboard Century Award (1996), was ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1998), and received the Billboard Latin Music Awards’ Lifetime Achievement honor (2009). Among many other honors, Carlos Santana has also been cited by

Rolling Stone as #15 on their list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” Celebrating the chart debut of Guitar Heaven (Arista) in 2010, Santana joined the ranks of the Rolling Stones as the only musical act in chart history to score at least one Top 10 album in every decade beginning with the 1960s. He is also currently headlining at a multi-year residency at House of Blues at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. In 2013, Carlos Santana was the recipient of the 2013 Kennedy Center Honors Award. Santana’s new album CORAZÓN (RCA/Sony Latin Iberia) due out May 6, 2014 is a collaborative effort with the biggest names in Latin music.

 

ROD STEWART AND SANTANA: THE VOICE, THE GUITAR, THE SONGS

North American Tour Itinerary 2014

 

May 23 Albany Times Union Center

May 25 Uncasville Mohegan Sun *

May 27 Pittsburgh CONSOL Energy Center

May 31 Buffalo First Niagara Center

Jun. 3 Louisville KFC Yum! Center

Jun. 6 St. Louis Scottrade Center

Jun. 7 Lincoln Pinnacle Bank Arena

Jul. 31 Eugene Matthew Knight Arena

Aug. 2 Vancouver Rogers Arena

Aug. 4 Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome

Aug. 5 Edmonton Rexall Place

Aug. 8 Winnipeg MTS Centre

Aug. 10 St. Paul XCEL Energy Center

Aug. 12 Denver Pepsi Center

Aug. 14 Kansas City Sprint Center

Aug. 16 Rosemont Allstate Arena

Aug. 19 Washington DC Verizon Center

Aug. 20 Wantagh, NY Jones Beach *

* Live Nation promoted concerts

Carlos Santana to Launch the Shape Shifter Tour 2012 With North American Dates Beginning July 7

SHAPE SHIFTER, THE NEW ALBUM FROM SANTANA, IS SET FOR RELEASE MAY 15

LOS ANGELES, -- Carlos Santana and the Santana Band will launch the Shape Shifter Tour 2012 with a string of North American dates beginning July 7 at the Grand Casino Mille Lacs in Hinckley, MN.  Other highlights include concerts at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre in West Toronto, ON (7/14), the Bank of America Pavilion in Boston, MA (7/17), and two dates at the Borgata Spa & Resort Event Center in Atlantic City, NJ (7/20-21).  More dates to be announced!

The tour follows the May 15, 2012 release of Shape Shifter , the latest album from Santana—and the first for Carlos Santana's new label Starfaith Records.  The 13-song set is an instrumental tour de force long awaited by fans (one song features vocals by Santana's lead vocalists Andy Vargas and Tony Lindsay ). The album also features Chester Thompson on keyboards, Dennis Chambers on drums, Benny Rietveld on bass, Salvador Santana on keyboards, Raul Rekow on congas and Karl Perazzo on percussion.
Comprising mostly original compositions that Carlos has been setting aside for such an instrumental project, Shape Shifter 's specially chosen tracks flow together as the magical sustain of his guitar and the spirit behind every note creates music that defies all cultural and language barriers—the music of Santana.  In that spirit, Carlos dedicated the album to Native Americans, acknowledging Australia's 2008 apology to the Aborigines, and President Obama's signing of the 2009 Native American Apology Resolution.  He says, "I encourage any and all countries (that have not as yet done so) to acknowledge the first people of their land, and make this a collective global effort." 
On the Shape Shifter Tour 2012, Santana will perform selections from the new album, as well as classics from the group's more than four-decades-long career.  Also this year, on May 2, Santana begins a two-year residency performing at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
Since Santana emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area music scene in the 1960s, the group has sold more than 100 million records, reached more than 100 million fans at concerts worldwide, and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Santana has won 10 GRAMMYs, including a record-tying nine for a single project, 1999's Supernatural (including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for "Smooth").  With the 2010 release of Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time­, Santana joined the Rolling Stones as one of only two music acts in Billboard history to score at least one Top Ten album in each decade from the 1960s on.  Among other honors, Carlos Santana is #20 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"—"Santana's crystalline tone and clean arcing sustain make him the rare instrumentalist who can be identified in just one note."

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Shape Shifter tour dates:
July 7	Grand Casino Mille Lacs	Hinckley, MN
July 9	Ravinia Festival	Highland Park, IL
July 12	Fraze Pavilion for the Performing Arts	Kettering, OH
July 13	Soaring Eagle Casino Resort	Mount Pleasant, MI
July 14	Molson Canadian Amphitheatre	West Toronto, ON
July 15	DTE Energy Music Theatre	Clarkston, MI
July 17	Bank of America Pavilion	Boston, MA
July 18	Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion	Gilford, NH
July 20-21	Borgata Spa & Resort Event Center	Atlantic City, NJ

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