Milagro (Santana album)
Milagro is the seventeenth studio album by Santana, released in 1992.
Milagro, which means "miracle" in Spanish, was dedicated to the lives of Miles Davis and Bill Graham, and was Santana's first album on the Polydor label after twenty-two years with Columbia Records. The album reached 102 in the Billboard 200.
As of 2010, this is the band Santana's only studio album not owned by Sony Music Entertainment, the successor to Sony BMG, a company formed by the merger of Columbia's parent Sony Music Entertainment and BMG, the parent of Santana's current label Arista Records. The album is owned by Universal Music Group, which purchased Polydor's parent PolyGram in 1998. Given the poor commercial performance of the album as well, this is probably the main reason no songs from this album was featured on the 2002 career-spanning compilation The Essential Santana.Track listing
- "Introduction — Bill Graham " – 7:34
- "Somewhere in Heaven" – 9:59
- "Saja/Right On" – 8:51
- "Your Touch" – 6:34
- "Life Is for Living" – 4:39
- "Red Prophet" – 5:35
- "Agua que va caer" – 4:22
- "Make Somebody Happy" – 4:14
- "Free All the People " – 6:04
- "Gypsy/Grajonca" – 7:09
- "We Don't Have to Wait" – 4:34
- "A Dios" – 1:21
Personnel
- Carlos Santana — guitar, vocals
- Chester D. Thompson — keyboards, horn/string arrangements, backing vocals
- Benny Rietveld — bass
- Walfredo Reyes, Jr. — Drum set, percussion
- Raul Rekow — timbales, percussion, vocals
- Karl Perazzo — timbales, guido, quinto, bongo, vocals
- Billy Johnson — drums
- Tony Lindsay — vocals
- Alex Ligertwood — vocals
- Larry Graham — vocals
- Rebeca Mauleon — piano
- Wayne Wallace — trombone
- Bill Ortiz — trumpet
- Robert Kwock — trumpet
- Melecio Magdaluyo — saxophone
- Bad River Singers — vocal chant
- John Philip Shenale - string programming
- Lygia Ferragallo - backing vocals