Acclaimed guitarist Carlos Santana was hospitalized after collapsing in the middle of a concert in Michigan on Tuesday night.
The 74-year-old Mexican-American musician wrote on Facebook that he had “become dehydrated and passed out” as he had “forgotten to eat and drink water.”
“We’re fine just taking it easy,” Santana wrote on her social media account after the incident.
The guitarist was giving a concert at the open-air Pine Knob Music Theater in Clarkston, sixty miles from Detroit, when he fainted.
His representative, Michael Vrionis, said in a statement that the musician “was the victim of heat stroke and dehydration” during the concert.
“Carlos was taken to the emergency room at McLaren Clarkston Hospital for observation and is doing well,” Vrionis said on the artist’s website.
He added that the concert he was to give in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania this Wednesday, “will be postponed to a later date.”
Santana, born in Mexico, is considered one of the greatest guitarists in history and has won ten Grammy Awards.
He was catapulted to fame in the late 1960s with his eponymous band that introduced a new style of music that blended rock and roll with Latin American jazz.
