Influences
Around the age of 8, Santana "fell under the influence" of blues performers like B.B. King and John Lee Hooker. Gábor Szabó's mid-1960s jazz/gypsy guitar work clearly infused Santana's playing. Szabó's composition "Gypsy Queen" was used as the second part of Santana's 1970 hit "Black Magic Woman", almost down to identical guitar licks. Santana also credits Jimi Hendrix, Mike Bloomfield, Hank Marvin and Peter Green as important influences; he considered Bloomfield a direct mentor, writing of a key meeting with Bloomfield in San Francisco in the foreword he wrote to a biography of Bloomfield, Michael Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues-An Oral History in 2000.
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