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Milagro (1992)

Where the lyrics of Milagro take you, and where it was really made.

Milagro is the only Santana studio album not owned by Sony Music Entertainment, having left the Columbia family after twenty-two years for Polydor.

Key places

Recorded and mixed at The Plant Studios (1992)

Recording site Record Plant — The album was recorded and mixed at The Plant Recording Studios in Sausalito, California, according to the release credits. The studio is listed as the recording and mixing location. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Milagro: 17th studio album by Santana, released in 1992
• Title means "miracle" in Spanish
• Dedicated to the lives of Miles Davis and Bill Graham
• Santana's first album on Polydor after twenty-two years with Columbia Records
• Released 5 May 1992 by Polydor Records
• Track listing of 12 songs, opening with an introduction titled after Bill Graham

Background

• Dedicatees: Miles Davis and Bill Graham, the latter described as a producer
• Label change from Columbia to Polydor after more than two decades
• As of 2020, the only Santana studio album not owned by Sony Music Entertainment
• Ownership now sits with Universal Music Group

Recording

• Recorded and mixed fully digitally using the Studer Dyaxis system
• Recorded and mixed at The Plant Recording Studios, Sausalito, CA
• Engineer credits: Jim Gaines and Manny Lacarrubba
• Jim Gaines credited as mixer on most tracks
• Mastered at Masterdisk, New York City, with Bob Ludwig credited as mastering engineer

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in San Francisco, California, in 1966 by Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana.
• Named the Santana Blues Band at a January 1967 Fillmore audition; shortened to Santana by the end of 1967.
• Signed with Columbia Records in late 1968.
• The "classic" line-up stabilised in May 1969: Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie, Michael Carabello, David Brown, Michael Shrieve and Jose "Chepito" Areas.

Members

• Carlos Santana is the only consistent member across the band's history.
• Classic line-up: Santana, Gregg Rolie (organ, lead vocals), Michael Carabello and Jose "Chepito" Areas (percussion), Michael Shrieve (drums), David Brown (bass).
• Brown died in 2000; Areas was not invited to the 2014 reunion.
• Classic line-up members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

Career

• Breakthrough at the 1969 Woodstock Festival; the debut album Santana peaked at No. 4 on the US Billboard 200.
• Abraxas (1970) and Santana III (1971) both reached No. 1 on the US Billboard 200.
• Early 1970s experiments with jazz fusion on Caravanserai (1972), Welcome (1973) and Borboletta (1974).
• Amigos (1976) returned the band to commercial success; Moonflower (1977) was its most successful album since Santana III.
• Commercial decline in the 1980s, followed by a seven-year recording hiatus.
• Supernatural (1999) won eight Grammy Awards and sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide.
• Santana IV (2016) reunited the classic line-up, the first recording together in 45 years.
• Estimated 100 million records sold worldwide.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Released in 1992 as Santana's seventeenth studio album
• Released in May 1992, according to the Spanish and Portuguese articles
• Issued on Polydor, the label's first Santana album after twenty-two years with Columbia Records
• Dedicated to the lives of Miles Davis and Bill Graham
• Recorded and mixed fully digitally on the Studer Dyaxis system
• Mastered at Masterdisk in New York City

Records

• Billboard 200 peak: number 102
• The Portuguese article gives the same 102nd position on the Billboard 200
• As of 2020, the only Santana studio album not owned by Sony Music Entertainment
• Current owner: Universal Music Group, formed by the 1999 merger of the PolyGram and MCA label families

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Bill Graham's spoken word appears on the track "Milagro"
• Martin Luther King Jr. spoken word, taken from I Have a Dream, appears on "Somewhere in Heaven"
• Recorded and mixed fully digitally on the Studer Dyaxis system
• Mastering credit goes to Bob Ludwig
• The album is owned by Universal Music Group, which was formed by the 1999 merger of the PolyGram and MCA label families

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

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