Santana's music career began in the 1960s, when he formed his eponymous band, Santana, with his brother Julián and bassist David Getz. The band's early sound was a fusion of rock, blues, and Latin rhythms, which quickly gained them a following in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their performance at Woodstock in 1969 catapulted them to international fame, and they went on to release a string of critically acclaimed and commercially successful albums.