Carlos Santana experienced heat exhaustion while performing in Michigan.
Carlos Santana was performing at Pine Knob Music Theatre on Tuesday night in Clarkston, Michigan. When he was with heat exhaustion. The management group of renowned singer Carlos Santana claims that he had a medical emergency during a concert on Tuesday night in Michigan.
Carlos Santana with heat exhaustion while performing in Michigan.
How did it actually happen?
Santana was “over-taking by heat exhaustion and dehydration,” according to a statement by his management team posted on his official Facebook page. He was performing at Pine Knob Music Theatre, an outdoor amphitheater in Clarkston, which is about 40 miles outside of Detroit.
Furthermore, Temperatures in Clarkston reaching up to 90 degrees Tuesday. Nearly 10 degrees above average, according to CNN meteorologist Robert Shackelford. “He had just started a song that was about joy and love,” concertgoer Alisa Zee told CNN. “He called for healing for the world. It was during that song that he collapsed.”
In videos recorded by fans, the 74-year-old musician sits on the corner of the stage. Also stops playing the guitar. As medical personnel attended to Santana, the stage crew held up a black tarp to block the view of the stage. As he was removing off the stage, fans are hearing in a video cheering for the musician. Moreover, Zee said the artist waved at fans as he was taken off stage.
“Carlos was taking to the emergency department at McLaren Clarkston for observation and is doing well.’ Reads the statement on his Facebook page.
He thanked his fans:
Similarly, Santana, in a brief statement that he share on Facebook. He shares after the incident thanks his fans for their “precious prayers”. I forgot to eat and drink water, so I became dehydrated and passed out, he wrote. The concert has been rescheduled. The musician was scheduling to perform with Earth, Wind, and Fire on Wednesday night in Pennsylvania. The Fourth in America concert on Monday featuring a performance by Santana.
Moreover, Today, he is one one of all-best time’s guitarists as well. Santana has won 10 Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards Grammys. In 1998 he and his namesake band were enshrined in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Following the year 2015, He was rate by Rolling Stone in its number of 100 most notable guitarists ever.
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