Milagro (Santana album)

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Milagro
SantanaMilagroAlbum.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 1992
StudioThe Plant Studios, Sausolito, California
Genre
Length70:23
Label Polydor
Producer Carlos Santana, Chester D. Thompson
Santana chronology
Spirits Dancing in the Flesh
(1990)
Milagro
(1992)
Sacred Fire: Live in South America
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Entertainment Weekly C− [2]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Milagro is the seventeenth studio album by Santana, released in 1992. Milagro, which means "miracle" in Spanish, was dedicated to the lives of Miles Davis and Bill Graham, and was Santana's first album on the Polydor label after twenty-two years with Columbia Records. The album reached 102 in the Billboard 200. [4]

Contents

As of 2020, this is the band Santana's only studio album not owned by Sony Music Entertainment, the successor to Sony BMG, a company formed by the merger of Columbia's parent (the original) Sony Music Entertainment and BMG, the parent of Santana's former label Arista Records. The album is owned by Universal Music Group, which purchased Polydor's parent PolyGram in 1998.[ citation needed ]

Track listing

  1. "Introduction Bill Graham (Milagro)" (M. Johnson, Bob Marley, Carlos Santana) – 7:34
  2. "Somewhere in Heaven" (Alex Ligertwood, Santana) – 9:59
  3. "Saja/Right On" (Joe Roccisano/Earl DeRouen, Marvin Gaye) – 8:51
  4. "Your Touch" (Santana, Chester D. Thompson) – 6:34
  5. "Life Is for Living" (Pat Sefolosha) – 4:39
  6. "Red Prophet" { Instrumental }(Benny Rietveld) – 5:35
  7. "Agua que va caer" (Carlos Valdes, Eugene "Totico" Arango) – 4:22
  8. "Make Somebody Happy" (Santana, Ligertwood) – 4:14
  9. "Free All the People (South Africa)" (Jackie Holmes) – 6:04
  10. "Gypsy/Grajonca" (Santana, Thompson) – 7:09
  11. "We Don't Have to Wait" (Santana, Armando Peraza, Thompson) – 4:34
  12. "A Dios" (Santana, John Coltrane, Gil Evans) – 1:21

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1992)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [5] 31
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [6] 51
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [7] 47
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [8] 11
US Billboard 200 [9] 102

Notes

  1. Ruhlmann, William. Milagro at AllMusic
  2. DiMartino, Dave (May 22, 1992). "Milagro". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved February 6, 2023.
  3. Swenson, John (January 29, 1997). "Santana: Milagro : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on October 1, 2007. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  4. "Milagro - Santana | Awards | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  5. "Austriancharts.at – Santana – Milagro" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
  6. "Dutchcharts.nl – Santana – Milagro" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
  7. "Offiziellecharts.de – Santana – Milagro" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
  8. "Swisscharts.com – Santana – Milagro". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
  9. "Santana Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October 27, 2022.

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