Subhi Agrawal
The rock legend Carlos Santana featured in the 2023 documentary Carlos, is celebrated for his guitar skills and as a founding member of Santana. His children have also pursued careers as musicians and artists in their own right.
“Learning To Play The Piano Is Required”
According to Santana’s website, in 1972 Santana met his first wife, Deborah King and they got married the following year. After almost ten years of marriage, the couple had their son Salvador and daughters Stella and Angelica within seven years.
“They’re all musical. In our house, learning to play the piano is required,” Santana told People in 2007 as he was raised learning the music, he aimed to continue the tradition within the family.
In 2015, Stella told VIBE that along with practicing music as children, the three siblings also toured with their father.
While Santana encouraged his children to pursue music, he states he was not overly forceful in wanting them to develop their talents.
All The Three Embraced Their Creative Talents
According to The Guardian report, in 2014, he said “I told them it was in them and to stop fighting it. But it took them a while to accept that. I said, ‘I’m not going to push you like my father pushed me but the sooner you get to it, the faster you will create diamonds.’ ”
With their father’s encouragement, all three children embraced their creative talents. Salvador and Stella became professional singers and musicians, while Angelica pursued a path as an artist and poet, also singing and playing piano.
In 2007, Santana and Deborah split their ways, and Santana wed his second wife, jazz and rock drummer Cindy Blackman, in 2011. Their wedding ceremony in Maui, Hawaii, occurred on a rainy December day, but it became even more meaningful when Salvador suggested they wash their hands in a bowl of rainwater. Blackman called it her “favorite part” of the ceremony in a 2011 interview with PEOPLE.
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