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Sacred Fire: Live in South America (1993)

Where the lyrics of Sacred Fire: Live in South America take you, and where it was really made.

The album takes its title from South America, but the concert it captures was staged in Mexico City, which is not on that continent.

Key places

Recorded at the Palacio de los Deportes (1993)

Recording site Palacio de los Deportes — The recording credits list the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City as the place of recording. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Sacred Fire: Live in South America is a live album by Santana, released in 1993
• Released 19 October 1993, according to the Portuguese-language article
• Dedicated to the life of Cesar Chavez
• The title is inaccurate: the concert production took place in Mexico City, which is not on the South American continent
• The standard edition has thirteen tracks, from Angels All Around Us to Jin-Go-Lo-Ba

Background

• A video under a similar name, Sacred Fire: Live in Mexico, was released with additional songs not on the album
• The video was produced by Paul Flattery and directed by Peter Nydrle
• Besides the concert, the video shows Carlos Santana playing guitar at various historic sites around Mexico City

Recording

• Recording credits list the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City
• Mastering credit goes to The Mastering Lab

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

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 19 October 1993 by Polydor Records, according to the Spanish-language article
• Dedicated to the life of Cesar Chavez
• The title is not accurate: the concert production was in Mexico City, which is not on the South American continent
• The companion video Sacred Fire: Live in Mexico was released with additional songs not featured on the album
• The video was produced by Paul Flattery and directed by Peter Nydrle, and it features Carlos Santana playing guitar at various historic sites around Mexico City
• The standard edition has thirteen tracks, and a limited edition Japanese re-release added a bonus disc of three extra songs

Records

• The album peaked at number 181 on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title Live in South America is inaccurate because the concert production was in Mexico City.
• The companion video Sacred Fire: Live in Mexico adds songs that are not on the album.
• A limited edition Japanese re-release includes a bonus disc with three extra tracks.
• The video includes shots of Carlos Santana playing guitar at historic sites around Mexico City.
• Among the bonus songs are Spirits Dancing in the Flesh and Wings of Grace.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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