Carlos Santana, the guitarist behind Abraxas and Supernatural, opens the Planet of Free Will Global Tour at The O2 arena, its only British date.
Carlos Santana, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist, plays The O2 arena in North Greenwich with his band on Wednesday 30 June 2027. The night opens the Planet of Free Will Global Tour.
The band began in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s, playing the Fillmore. Its sound, a fusion of Latin rhythm, blues and rock, was in place from the start.
Santana played Woodstock in 1969, the year of the self-titled debut album and its first Top 10 hit, “Evil Ways”. Abraxas and Santana III followed, and both reached number one in America.
Thirty years after the debut, Supernatural won nine Grammy Awards, among them Album of the Year, and “Smooth” took Record of the Year. With Corazón in 2014, Santana became one of two acts to place a Top 10 album in America in six consecutive decades.
London is the tour’s first night and its only British date. The O2 has booked it as part of the arena’s twentieth birthday year.