Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

That same year Santana formed an all-instrumental group featuring jazz legend Wayne Shorter on tenor and soprano saxophone. King and John Lee Hooker. In 1985 Bill Graham had to once again pull strings for Santana to convince principal Live Aid concert organizer Bob Geldof to allow the band to appear at the festival.

Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band Santana which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American music. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and 3 Latin Grammy Awards.