A great passion for the music led Susan Santos to learn, in a self- taught way, how to play guitar and sing. Step by step the lefty guitarist and singer was creating her own songs and her particular style of understanding the music.
After several bands, she moved to Madrid in 2009 and formed a band with her own name, This is her more powerful project, a power trio that mixes blues and rock & american roots music.
She has had intense years of performing in famous clubs and at numerous festivals around Europe, USA & Mexico.
She recorded 5 cds "Take me home", (Grasa Records, 2010), "Shuffle Woman" (Peer Music,2012) and “Electric Love” (Paella Re- cords,2014) ,
“Skin & Bones”
(Paella Records,2016)
& “NO U TURN”
(TWH Records, January 2019)
“NO U TURN " is her fifth
album and was mixed in Los
Angeles, California and
mastered in Aftermaster Studios
(Los Angeles) by Peter Doell (worked
for Glenn Frey, Steve Miller,
Willie Nelson, Tom Petty…).This album
was released 11th January 2019.
Susan’s outstanding voice and
appealing guitar style, along with her
strong stage presence is very refreshing in
the contemporary blues scene. Blues-rock
of XXI Century. Susan won The Best Musician
Performance 2018 in the European Blues
Awards. In 2019 she has been nominated
for Texas Sounds Music Awards.
Susan Santos is a guitar hero. She has chops to
spare. She is a monster in the studio,
overdubbing well performed layers of guitar
that sound live and immediate. Santos is
also an accomplished
songwriter who crafts sturdy, hook laden
numbers. But, there are not any real Blues
burners. There is not a traditional 12 bar
pattern anywhere. However, for those purists
who are looking for this talented slinger to lay
it down old school check out some of the
YouTube videos of Santos and band. She can get
down and weep out a deep 12 bar Blues like
nobody’s business. With this her 5th record,
No U Turn is a high point for a deep soulful artist
in her prime.
(Blues Blast Magazine, US)
"She’s got an understated confidence that bubbles to the top, via snaking guitar lines at the core of a song-driven album, full of energetic arrangements, sparkling solos that illuminates her considerable abilities"
“No U Turn” all fit together seamlessly and flow like the best albums always do, as Susan shapes her material with the kind of gusto that has led her to winning the ‘Best Performer’ category at the European Blues Awards.
(Get Ready to Rock, UK)
NO U Turn , Nº 5 in The most played Album in February 2019 (IBBA, UK)
Susan Santos
Featured - 26/July/2019