Amigos is the seventh studio album from Santana

Santana (band)

Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...

. The album contained a minor US hit single in "Let It Shine" and was the band's first album to hit the top ten on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

 charts (it ultimately reached gold record status) since Caravanserai

Caravanserai (album)

Caravanserai is the fourth studio album by Santana released in October 1972. It marked a major turning point in Carlos Santana's career as it was a sharp departure from his critically acclaimed first three albums...

in 1972. In Europe the song "Europa" was released as a single and became a Top-10 hit in several countries.

Track listing

1. "Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana)" (Leon Chancelor / Thomas Joseph Coster / David J. Rubinson)—8:15
2. "Take Me With You" (T. Coster / L.N. Chancler)—5:27
3. "Let Me" (T. Coster / D.C. Santana)—4:51
4. "Gitano" (A. Peraza)—6:13
5. "Tell Me Are You Tired" (T. Coster / L.N. Chancler)—5:42
6. "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" ( C. Santana / T. Coster)—5:06
7. "Let It Shine" (D. Brown / R. Gardner)—5:43

Personnel

• Carlos Santana
  Carlos Santana
  Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
  
   – vocals, guitar
  Guitar
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  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  
• David Brown
  David Brown (musician)
  David Brown was the primary bass guitar player for the band Santana from 1966 until 1971, then again from 1973 until 1976. David grew up in Daly City, California...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Tom Coster
  Tom Coster
  Tom Coster is an American keyboardist and composer. Detroit-born and San Francisco-raised, Coster played piano and accordion as a youth, continuing his studies through college and a productive five-year stint as a musician in the U.S...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , vocals
• Leon "Ndugu" Chancler – drums
  Drum kit
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  , percussion
• Armando Peraza
  Armando Peraza
  Armando Peraza is a Latin jazz percussionist. Through his long associations with jazz pianist George Shearing, vibraphonist Cal Tjader and guitarist Carlos Santana, he has been internationally known from the 1950s through to the 1990s...
  
   – percussion, vocals
• Greg Walker – vocals
• Ivory Stone – vocals
• Julia Tillman Waters – vocals
• Maxine Willard Waters – vocals

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1976	Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Pop Albums	10
	Billboard Black Albums	10

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1976	"Let It Shine"	Billboard Hot 100	77
		Billboard Black Singles	78

Certifications

Organization	Level	Date
RIAA – USA	Gold	June 11, 1976