NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM
announced today that legendary rock star Carlos Santana will sit down in front of a live
studio audience of SiriusXM listeners on Tuesday, October 14 for its series "SiriusXM
ICONOS," intimate gatherings with iconic Latin musicians,
entertainers and ambassadors of Latino culture.
"SiriusXM ICONOS with Carlos
Santana" will feature the famed guitarist, multiple GRAMMY®
and Latin Grammy® award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
discussing everything from his early days playing the strip bars in
Tijuana and musical influences to
his upcoming memoir, The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to
Light (Little, Brown and Company).
"Carlos Santana is a rock star in
every sense of the word and we feel honored to welcome him to our
SiriusXM studios," said Scott Greenstein, President and Chief
Content Officer, SiriusXM. "We look forward to hosting
Santana for our 'ICONOS' series as he discusses his groundbreaking,
multigenerational music and his heartfelt dedication to
humanitarian causes."
"SiriusXM's ICONOS with Carlos
Santana," which will take place at the SiriusXM studios in
Washington D.C., will air
simultaneously on SiriusXM Caliente channel 150 and La Kueva
channel 540 on Tuesday, November 4 at
5:00 pm ET and through the
SiriusXM Internet Radio App on smartphones and other connected
devices, as well as online at siriusxm.com. After
the broadcast, "SiriusXM's ICONOS with Carlos Santana" will also be available to
subscribers on SiriusXM On Demand.
Born in Autlan, Mexico,
Carlos Santana has been the
recipient of numerous awards, including ten Grammy Awards® and
three Latin Grammy Awards®. The band was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Santana's works entered the Grammy
Hall of Fame and Latin Grammy Hall of Fame. Carlos Santana was inducted into the NAACP Image
Hall of Fame, and was dedicated a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame. He has also received accolades for his social
engagements including the UCLA Cesar E. Chavez Spirit Award and
Patrick Lippert Award.
La Kueva is SiriusXM's Latin Rock channel airing music by
Santana, Mana, Juanes, Zoe, Jarabe De Palo, Molotov, Cafe Tacuba,
and many more.
Caliente plays a mix of the biggest tropical, salsa, merengue
and reggaeton hits, playing, among others, Marc Anthony, Juan Luis
Guerra, Romeo Santos, Daddy
Yankee and Prince
Royce.
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www.siriusxm.com.
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About SANTANA
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), received the
Billboard Latin Music Awards' Lifetime Achievement honor
(2009), and was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors Award
(2013). Among many other honors, Carlos
Santana has been cited by Rolling Stone as #15 on their list
of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." And, with the
2014 release of Corazon, Santana surpassed the Rolling
Stones and, along with Barbara Streisand, is one of only two music
acts in Billboard history to score at least one Top Ten album for
six consecutive decades from the 1960s on. On May 6th, Santana released his
first ever Latin Music album entitled Corazon on RCA/Sony
Latin Iberia, featuring superstar collaborative performances
with ChocQuibtown, Lila
Downs, Gloria Estefan, Los
Fabulosos Cadillacs, Juanes, Ziggy
Marley, Miguel, Nina Pastori, Pitbull, Samuel Rosa of Skank, Cindy Blackman Santana, Romeo Santos, Wayne
Shorter, Soledad, and Diego
Torres. The album is certified U.S. Latin Double Platinum
and was the top selling Latin Music album in the United States for six consecutive weeks.
Santana is currently headlining a multi-year residency at House of
Blues at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. Additionally, 'The
Corazon Tour' 'continues in October with dates in
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, the Midwest, and upstate
New York. This fall, Carlos Santana will release his memoir "The
Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light."
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Contacts:
Michelle Dominguez
212.901.6792
michelle.dominguez@siriusxm.com
Michael Jensen
Jensen Communications
626.585.9575
mj@jensencom.com
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