It is one of Santana's most popular compositions and it reached the top in the Spanish Singles Chart in July 1976.
[not verified in body] Upon seeing a friend suffering a bad experience whilst high on mescaline, Santana composed a piece titled "The Mushroom Lady's Coming to Town".
[citation needed] When Santana was touring with Earth, Wind & Fire in Manchester, England, he played this tune again, this time with Tom Coster who helped him with some of the chords and thus Europa was born.
Several reports[2][3] claim that when Carlos Santana visited the Soviet Union in 1987, a controversy arose as some said the Armenian composer Arno Babajanian recognised the first eight measures of Europa, when he first heard it, as his own composition "Мосты" ("Bridges"), released in 1959.
Spanish musician Dyango sang a version accompanied by Paco de Lucia, with lyrics set to the melody.