"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."
The hall-of-fame guitar player behind the warm sounds of his eponymous band, Santana, has sold his redundant Anini Beach mansion on Kauai for $11.9 mill, almost four mill more than what he paid in 2020.
Santana, who’s moved more than a hundred mill records worldwide and who is mostly famous for the karaoke hits Black Magic Woman and Oye Come Va, bought the 4000 square foot, four-bedder joint on three acres and with its own little trail to the beach, right as the market started to explode courtesy of the pandemic.
Here’s a taste of the old place.

He ain’t moving far, howevs.
Four miles if you wanna be exact.
Carlos has spent $20.5 mill on a wild compound twice the size of the old place in Princeville on Kauai’s North Shore, real near to where Andy Irons had his Hanalei Bomber crib (sold for four mill in 2012 ‘cause Andy’s widow was getting hit with 17 gees a year tax plus everything else, now selling for around eleven mill) and where Bruce once roamed in a giant pickup truck.
The 5121 Hanalei Plantation Road joint has four separate pods connected via a living space in the middle that has a retractable roof.
Also, has an infinity pool, naturally.

The previous spent eighteen mill building the place on a $1.6 mill lot back in 2004.
Carlos’ main home is in Vegas but he digs Kauai for its “serenity.”
It’s Carlos Santana
Honolulu isn’t beautiful
Not to those in 12 step programs.
that retractable roof / kitchen bbq zone looks pretty sick.
His wife is His Drummer…..She good good good as Snake would say.
Jealous that you can’t afford to live anywhere but an over crowded city?
Should have made better choices.
More of a No One to Depend On kinda guy myself
How’s the serenity ?
So much serenity…
Not if ya at Bonnie Doon though.
“Serenity” = A big two stroke engine on full throttle…
All that money and property still won’t buy you a set wave down the street at ka–hi-w-i
what a wave that is.
Was lucky to score it numerous times. Dramatic situation when big
A lot going on out there no doubt.
But all the whores will be hanging at your house, and that’s what’s important.
While visiting the “Garden Isle” sometime in my 40’s a boogie local friend said to meet him at that very surf spot. Caught a ride from an another haole transplant whom moments before had me talking story too stepfather to “Hoale TOW/SUP God” around the bed of his pick up at the bay. Upon arrival no sign of “Boogie Friend” Call it what you will but a lifetime of paddling in various line ups around the globe, being respectful, and putting your head down and going I paddled out. To be cont…
Many good surfers wouldn’t take a set wave there even if it was gifted to them.
That’s Oye COMO Va to you, gringo –
It literally translates to “listen to how” and is the beginning of a few lines that make up the song ‘s chorus. In the song, the singer pauses between oye cómo va ( listen to how) and mi ritmo ( my rhythm goes ).
I had it for ‘Hey, howzit goin’ for years …. just realised that the hey oye is the same as the listen oye.
Jeez, for years I coulda sworn he was singing about a guy pathetically trying to hide his male pattern baldness with long strands from the side pushed over the top: A COMB O-VAH (a combo-over).
Gee. I feel really silly now.
Please don’t tell anyone. I’d be so embarrassed.
That’s a long way from his former home in a Caravanserai.
Wow, that’s deep. ‘An open heart’.
That and $6.00 will get you a cup of coffee.
Don’t forget 6 decades of smoking killer weed and a little dain bramage