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"Maria Maria" is a song by American rock band Santana featuring the Product G&B, included on Santana's 18th studio album, Supernatural (1999). The song was written by Wyclef Jean , Jerry "Wonda" Duplessis , Carlos Santana , Karl Perazzo, and Raul Rekow, while Jean and Duplessis produced it.
"Black Magic Woman" has the same chord structure, guitar breaks, and even a similar melody to "I Loved Another Woman". Set in the key of D minor, the verse follows a twelve bar chord progression alternating between D minor 7, A minor 7, and G minor 7, and the instrumentation consists of vocals, two guitars, bass guitar and drums.
The song became a worldwide number-one and top-ten hit. "Maria Maria" was ranked as the third most-successful song of 1999 on the Billboard Hot 100. In early 2000, the song went on to be nominated for and win the award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards.
Santana had sold over 100 million records as of 2010, [4] along with ten Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards. [5] Four albums reached number one on the Billboard charts (Abraxas, Santana III, Supernatural, Shaman) along with two number one singles ("Smooth", "Maria Maria").
The song follows a chord progression of Cm–Fm–Cm, and Rihanna's and Tiller's vocals spanning from C 4 to G 5. [7] Billboard editor Andrew Unterberger noted the "Wild Thoughts" featured the same groove and riff as "Maria Maria" and even featured Wyclef Jean's "murmuring" who supplied the original song's ad-libs. [8]
Blessings and Miracles is the twenty-sixth studio album by American rock band Santana.The album was released on October 15, 2021, by Starfaith LLC and BMG Rights Management [4] [5] and produced by Carlos Santana himself, who prepared it over the course of two years.
Latin rock band Santana had a strong showing, taking positions two and three with "Smooth" and "Maria Maria" from the Supernatural album. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 2000.
After hearing the song, Santana decided to have Thomas record the final version. [1] [3] Matt Serletic (who produced Matchbox Twenty's debut album Yourself or Someone Like You in 1996) produced the song, and it was released from Santana's 1999 album Supernatural. Thomas originally had George Michael in mind to sing the song. [4]