# Did your parents tell you Santana was real when you were little? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999 "2013-12-10T18:33:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/21 "2013-12-10T20:17:05Z")
My parents didn’t have much to say about popular music in general when I was growing up. Though my mother did get quite annoyed once when “Mother’s Little Helper” came on the radio.\* \*true story. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/22 "2013-12-10T20:22:45Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > My parents didn’t have much to say about popular music in general when I was growing up. > > Though my mother did get quite annoyed once when “Mother’s Little Helper” came on the radio.\* > > \*true story. What a drag it is gettin’ old. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/23 "2013-12-10T20:31:12Z")
Forget Santana, who else here believes in the Black Magic Woman? ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/24 "2013-12-10T20:50:07Z")
they might have used persuasion to try to get you to believe. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/25 "2013-12-10T21:31:18Z")
I was already in my early 20s when Santana came to be. By then, if my parents had any opinion, I would have ignored it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/26 "2013-12-10T21:56:40Z")
I thought Tito Santana was cool, and my family never told me that WWF Wrestling wasn’t “real”… I had to learn that on the playground. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/27 "2013-12-10T22:19:26Z")
I thought he was just Peter Green in dark makeup. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/28 "2013-12-10T23:26:04Z")
I was taught that Santana was Satan’s music, delivered by Santa. That’s how I knew Santa was real. Why would my mom give me Satan’s music for Christmas? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/29 "2013-12-10T23:36:30Z")
I learned about Santana on my own. This was for the best. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/30 "2013-12-10T23:44:08Z")
My parents never told me about Santana. I had to find out on my own. In fact, the thought of my mother listening to _Jingo_, or _Soul Sacrifice_, is just a bit too weird for me to contemplate… ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/31 "2013-12-11T00:24:06Z")
> **[Satanta, Kansas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanta,_Kansas)** > > Satanta is a city in Haskell County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,092. Every year there is a celebration of Satanta's Indian heritage called Satanta Day. > The town is named after Kiowa Chief Satanta. > The first post office in Satanta was established in October 1912. > Satanta is located at 37°26′12″N 100°59′15″W / 37.43667°N 100.98750°W / 37.43667; -100.98750 (37.436602, -100.987509). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has ... 😃 😉 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/32 "2013-12-11T00:35:04Z")
Other people told me Santana was real! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/33 "2013-12-11T00:40:17Z")
They outright told me she wasn’t real. She’s only an actress named Naya Rivera, and… What? Oh. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/34 "2013-12-11T00:50:14Z")
My parents didn’t want us believing in Santana. They thought we’d feel betrayed when we learned he wasn’t real, and they wanted a chance to screw us up with bigger parental betrayals right off the bat. But really, how they could predict Supernatural all the way back in the late 70s, I’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/35 "2013-12-11T00:57:43Z")
_Santana_ did not form until I was older.\* 😃 \* ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/36 "2013-12-11T01:01:52Z")
My parents never told me about the Wonder that is Santana. I learned from a friend who learned from her uncle. Her parents didn’t approve of her uncle, who was the rebel of the family, so we had to hide our new found knowledge from them. My parents thought it was a phase and a vast improvement over the Osmonds and Bobby Sherman. Little did they know it would lead me down the road to Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin and the Prince of Darkness HImself, Ozzy. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/37 "2013-12-11T01:16:08Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > I thought he was just Peter Green in dark makeup. My god yes. I heard Peter Green and thought “good lord, Santana owes him a career…” ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/38 "2013-12-11T01:18:25Z")
Then there’s that mythical Santa Anna guy. I don’t think he ever existed. It’s a Texan fairy tale. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/39 "2013-12-11T01:19:04Z")
\*If NOT, do you feel your childhood was enriched or diminished? \* Definitely diminished. Worse than diminished! Not only did my parents never tell me about Santana, but I was shocked and humiliated one day due to my lack of knowledge. One day on an interminable plane flight, this cute guy sitting next to me and this quiet older guy sitting across the aisle from me on the other side kept having these annoying giggling girls come up from the rear of the plane to ask them for autographs. I asked who they were, and they asked if I knew the band Santana, and I HADN’T EVER HEARD OF THEM! :eek: (Carlos was the quiet one. Nice guy, but didn’t have too much to say to a clueless 15 year old girl who’d never heard of him. His brother to my right never stopped talking for 9 hours, but he was a nice guy, too, and never creeped on me, so I liked him.) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/40 "2013-12-11T01:23:21Z")
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