The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light (61 page)

Me at eighteen months old, 1949. (© Santana Archives)

(L to R) Jorge, Maria, and Lety, 1959. (© Santana Archives)

Nina Matilde—my mom’s aunt, who named me “El Cristalino.” (© Santana Archives)

Josefina Barragán de Santana. (© Santana Archives)

José Santana (rear center with violin), Uncle Juan Santana (with cello), and José’s band, 1945. This was the kind of Mexican orchestra dad started in; he didn’t play mariachi music until we moved to Tijuana. (© Santana Archives)

My dad’s handwritten note on the back of the photo.

My dad, me, and our dog Tony in Tijuana, 1958. (© Santana Archives)

“Mr. 50¢ a Song”

Me at twelve years old, on violin, in Tijuana, Mexico, August 30, 1959. (© Santana Archives)

This was one of my first gigs with my father, playing a fiftieth-anniversary party in Tijuana, Baja California, in 1958, looking like Cosa Nostra enforcers. (© Santana Archives)

The Strangers, Tijuana, Mexico, 1961. I’m on bass, next to the drummer. (© Santana Archives)

My fourteen-year-old school picture, Tijuana, June 20, 1961. (© Santana Archives)

Salon MX, Mission Street between 22nd and 23rd Streets, San Francisco, 1962.

With Danny Haro and Albert Rodriguez. (© Santana Archives)

Santana: (L to R) Gregg Rolie, me, and Marcus Malone, 1968. (© Jim Marshall Photography LLC)