Deborah Santana is Vice President and COO of the New Santana Band, Inc. and has been managing the Santana Band full time with Carlos Santana, the CEO/Band Leader since 1994. She is also Vice President of the Milagro Foundation, which was started in 1998 by the Santana family and which has given almost $2 million to charities and agencies that support children and youth in the areas of health, education and the arts. She has been married since 1973 to GRAMMY®-winning, Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame musician Carlos Santana. In 2000 she received the UCLA César E. Chávez Spirit Award, which honors individuals who have continued to pursue Chávez's vision of social justice and in 2004 Santana was the recipient of a "Women of Distinction" Award from the Marin Soroptimist Organization for her leadership and work with the Milagro Foundation. She and Carlos live in San Rafael, CA with their three children.
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Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–the legendary blues ... SEE MORE