Santana enters Hall of Fame

LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Performances by Santana, Joao Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim are among the first recordings to be inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame was established by the Latin Recording Academy earlier this year to honour important recordings - singles or full-length albums - released more than 25 years ago.

Among the 17 recordings to be inducted are Carlos Santana's 1970 remake of Tito Puente's Oye Como Va, Antonio Carlos Jobim's single Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema), Pedro Vargas' 1941 single Besame Mucho and Javier Solis' version of Sabor a Mi.

Dominated

"This year's inaugural selections are timeless recordings which embody classic compositions that truly have set the precedence for excellence," said academy president Michael Greene.
Carlos Santana dominated last year's first Latin Grammy awards in Los Angeles when he won a hat-trick of awards.

The musician grew up in Autl�n, southeast of the Jalisco state capital of Guadalajara, and his father played the violin in a local mariachi band. He emigrated to the US as a young man, where he launched a rock 'n' roll career that has spanned 30 years. A special honour was also awarded in 2000 to Tito Puente, one of the world's most prolific composers and performers of Latin jazz, who died last year.