The Universal Tone by Carlos Santana - A Short Summary & Review
The Universal Tone by Carlos Santana - A Short Summary & Review
By: a.d. elliott | Take the Back Roads - Art and Other Odd Adventures
A Rite of Fancy Book Recommendation and Review
My music, my soul. - Love, Carlos Santana.
A short summary:
The Universal Tone is Carlos Santana’s meditation on music as a spiritual force. Blending memoir, philosophy, and reflection, Santana explores how sound becomes soul, how rhythm, pain, faith, culture, and transcendence all move through a guitar string.
This is not just a story of a career, but of a calling: music as healing, resistance, prayer, and communion. Santana writes as someone who believes sound can lift people out of suffering and into something shared.
My favorite quote from the book:
Questions to ponder while reading:
My review:
Carlos Santana is more than a great musician. He is a great storyteller, weaving memory and meaning with the same ease he bends notes. He is a survivor, shaped by hardship without being defined by it. He is an uplifter, convinced that art exists to heal, to awaken, to remind us of our shared humanity.
Most of all, he is a deeply intentional person. This book pulses with humility and purpose, insisting that success without soul is hollow, and that music, at its best, is an act of love.
Reading The Universal Tone feels less like consuming a memoir and more like sitting with someone who wants you to remember who you are.
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About the Author
a.d. elliott is a wanderer, photographer, and storyteller traveling through life
She shares her journeys at Take the Back Roads, explores new reads at Rite of Fancy, and highlights U.S. military biographies at Everyday Patriot.
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