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"Oye Cómo Va" is a 1962 cha-cha-chá song by Tito Puente, originally released on El Rey Bravo (Tico Records). The song achieved worldwide popularity when it was covered by American rock group Santana for their album Abraxas .
In the live album Fillmore: The Last Days which includes works from 14 different bands, Santana presents the song to critical acclaim. Allmusic describes the performance as "strong showing" and, despite negative review of the album, Hooterollin' Around writes that "only Santana really stands out, with 'Incident at Neshabur' and a unique version ...
More recently in 2011, three Santana songs were offered as downloadable content (DLC) for guitar learning software Rocksmith: "Oye Como Va", "Smooth", and "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen". In the same year, Santana received the Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award .
[4]: 34–35 "Oye Como Va" was a hit by Tito Puente in the early 1960s and the group played it live regularly, as they realized it was good for audiences to dance to. [4]: 35 "Incident at Neshabur" was co-written by Santana and his friend Alberto Gianquinto, who played piano on the track.
This ponchando pattern is familiar to many as Santana's "Oye Como Va". Moore states: "Hip fans will often flaunt their knowledge by pointing out that the song was originally recorded by Tito Puente in 1963, and before that by Arcaño y sus Maravillas as "Chanchullo" in 1957, but it goes all the way back to Cachao's "Rareza de Melitón" in 1942. [9]
Ultimate Santana is a compilation by rock band Santana, ... Santana: 5:33: 16. "Oye Como Va" (from Abraxas) ... Carlos Santana – lead, ...
What's "Oye Como Va" mean? --Yancyfry jr 04:26, 4 October 2006 (UTC) I'm not sure, as I don't speak much Spanish, but I'd guess that it means "hey, how's it going" or something similar, given that "como" means how and "va" means go. According to freetranslation.com, however, it means "it hears as goes." That wouldn't make much sense, though ...
"Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" is an instrumental from the Santana album Amigos, written by Carlos Santana and Tom Coster. It is one of Santana's most popular compositions and it reached the top in the Spanish Singles Chart in July 1976. [1] The 16-bar chord progression follows the Circle of Fifths, similar to the jazz standard "Autumn ...