He is. Simple as that. There’s no one like him, no musician alive. He makes a sound like no one else, and he’s been doing it for a lifetime. Here’s an absolutely terrific ten-minute interview/documentary about Santana that says more in 568 seconds than most movies say in ten times that long. Watch and learn. Like he says: eternally relevant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MqJOkuWhCA