"Originalmente publicado en ingles como When Angels Sing"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Carlos Santana echaba de menos a su papa cuando este se iba. Echaba de menos el olor a jabon en su piel y la sonrisa en sus ojos, pero mas que nada echaba de menos el sonido de su violin. Era un sonido que llenaba el mundo de magia y amor y sentimiento y curacion. Era un sonido que hacia reales a los angeles. Carlos tambien queria hacer reales a los angeles. Asi que comenzo a tocar musica. Carlos probo con el clarinete y con el violin, pero los angeles no vinieron. Luego agarro la guitarra. Tomo el alma del blues y el cerebro del jazz y la energia del rock and roll y anadio el fuego lento de los tambores afrocubanos y el bamboleo con aroma de cilantro de la musica con la que habia crecido. Habia muchas bandas en San Francisco, pero ninguna tocaba de ese modo. Carlos habia encontrado por fin el sonido que hiciera reales a sus angeles?"--

"Carlos Santana loved to listen to his father play the violin. It was a sound that filled the world with magic and love and feeling and healing-a sound that made angels real. Carlos wanted to make angels real, too. So he started playing music. Carlos tried the clarinete and the violin, but there were no angels. Then he picked up the guitar. He took the soul of the Blues, the brains of Jazz, and the energy of Rock and Roll, and added the slow heat of Afro-Cuban drums and the cilantro-scented sway of the music he'd grown up with in Mexico. There were a lot of bands in San Francisco but none of them sounded like this. Had Carlos finally found the music that would make his angels real?"--

Ages 4-8.,Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Grades 2-3.,Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

In Spanish, translated from the English.