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On this day, 7 September 1975, American Latin-infused rock band Santana played Cardiff’s Capitol Theatre with support provided by Earth, Wind and Fire. It was the band’s Borboletta Tour to promote their Borboletta album.
Formed in 1966 by the Mexican American guitarist Carlos Santana, which has performed for five decades.
The group's first concert tours were North America, with performances in Europe, where they performed at small and medium-size venues and rock festivals. Following a lineup change in early 1972, they toured the world from 1972 to 1973. During this tour, the band performed at arenas and theaters, while doing several concerts in South America, one of the first tours of the continent by a major American rock act. After a North American tour in 1974, the last remaining members of the group from their famous lineup, Michael Shrieve and José Areas, quit the group, and the band underwent multiple lineup changes during the following years. In the 1970s to the 1980s, the band played at arenas, but mostly theaters and seldom music festivals.
In the 1990s, the group lost their recording contract, but they continued to tour extensively throughout the decade, mostly playing at theaters and amphitheaters. However, the band ended the decade with the Supernatural Tour, a vehicle for their popular 1999 album Supernatural. The 177–date tour was a success with audiences and critics, and the group continued to perform within the 2000s. In the third quarter of 2010, Carlos Santana proposed to drummer Cindy Blackman after her solo on the song "Corazón Espinado", and she became an official member of the band in 2016. The group continues to tour the world to this day.
Tour band
Leon Patillo – lead vocals, piano, organ (through November 15, 1975)
Greg Walker – lead vocals, percussion (beginning December 4, 1975)
Carlos Santana – guitar, percussion, vocals
Tom Coster – Yamaha organ, Hammond organ, Minimoog, electric piano, percussion, vocals
David Brown – bass guitar
Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – drums
Armando Peraza – congas, percussion
Setlist
"Incident at Neshabur" (Gianquinto, Santana)
"Black Magic Woman" (Green)
"Gypsy Queen" (Szabó)
"Oye Como Va" (Puente)
"Let the Music Set You Free" (Coster, Patillo, David Rubinson, Santana)
"Time Waits for No One" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
"Samba Pa Ti" (Santana)
"Savor" (Areas, Brown, Michael Carabello, Rolie, Santana, Shrieve)
"Toussaint L'Ouverture" (Areas, Brown, Carabello, Rolie, Santana, Shrieve)
"Soul Sacrifice" (Santana, Rolie, Brown, Malone)