Guitarist Jorge Santana, the younger brother of Carlos Santana, has died.
Carlos Santana announced on his Facebook page Friday that his brother died. He was 68. The Santana family says he died Thursday of natural causes.
Born in in Jalisco, Mexico, Jorge Santana began playing guitar following his brother's footsteps. He joined a San Francisco-based band that would later become Malo, which means "bad" in Spanish.
Malo's 1972 hit "Suavecito" became a staple for Mexican American cookouts, weddings and quinceañeras for generations throughout the American Southwest.
Santana later played with the New York-based salsa collective Fania All-Stars.
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