Carlos Santana hospitalized for dehydration, again, prior to San Antonio concert

Carlos Santana, alternatively of rocking retired onstage astatine San Antonio’s Majestic Theatre, spent his Tuesday evening receiving attraction successful a hospital.

The 77-year-old guitarist suffered a non-life-threatening aesculapian exigency earlier helium was acceptable to execute astatine the Texas venue arsenic portion of his astir caller tour. The San Antonio Fire Department responded to the performance hallway to a “report of an aged diligent who had reportedly fainted,” a spokesperson confirmed to The Times connected Wednesday. That diligent was transported to a hospital.

A typical for Carlos Santana did not instantly respond to The Times’ petition for remark connected Wednesday but told People successful a connection that Tuesday’s performance had been postponed.

“Mr. Santana was astatine the venue (Majestic Theatre) preparing for tonight’s amusement erstwhile helium experienced an lawsuit that was determined to beryllium dehydration,” said Michael Vrionis, a rep for the “Oye Como Va” instrumentalist and president of Universal Tone Management. “Out of an abundance of caution and the wellness of Mr. Santana, the determination to postpone the amusement was the astir prudent people of action.”

Vrionis successful his connection said Santana was connected the mend, looks guardant to returning to San Antonio and intends to transportation connected with his tour. The guitarist’s website says helium is scheduled to execute Wednesday astatine the Smart Financial Center successful Sugar Land, Texas. Vrionis thanked Santana’s fans for their knowing and confirmed the Majestic Theatre performance volition get a caller day soon.

Santana suffered his latest bout with dehydration months aft helium took an “accidental fall” successful January, which led to the postponement of respective shows. His squad announced astatine the clip that Santana “took a hard autumn and broke his small digit connected his near hand,” negatively affecting his quality to play guitar for six weeks.

Nearly 3 years agone Santana landed successful the infirmary aft helium collapsed onstage during a performance successful Michigan. Vrionis said astatine the clip the rocker was “over-taken by vigor exhaustion and dehydration.” Shortly aft that aesculapian emergency, Santana thanked his fans for their enactment and explained what perchance led to the fainting spell.

“forgot to devour and portion h2o / truthful one dehydrated and passed out/,” the “Smooth” creator wrote successful verse. “blessings and miracles to you all.”

The Grammy victor seems to person a engaged twelvemonth of unrecorded performances up of him. After Texas he’ll instrumentality his euphony — arsenic portion of assorted tours — crossed the United States and Europe done November.