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Cindy Blackman Santana Biography
Cindy Blackman Santana is one of the most popular and richest Drummer who was born on November 18, 1959 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States.
Cindy Blackman Santana (born November 18, 1959), sometimes known as Cindy Blackman, is an American jazz and rock drummer. Blackman has recorded several jazz albums as solo act and has performed with Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Simmons, Ron Carter, Sam Rivers, Cassandra Wilson, Angela Bofill, Buckethead, Bill Laswell, Lenny Kravitz, Joe Henderson and Joss Stone. She was influenced early in her career by seeing Tony Williams perform. In 1997 she recorded the instructional video Multiplicity. “To me, jazz is the highest form of music that you can play because of the creative requirements”, says Blackman. Blackman is married to rock guitarist Carlos Santana.
While she was at Berklee a friend recommended her for a gig with The Drifters so Blackman left college after three semesters and moved to New York City in 1982. Blackman worked as a New York street performer but also got a chance to watch and learn. “I looked for Art Blakey, I looked for Elvin [Jones], I looked for Philly Joe Jones, for Roy Haynes, for Tony Williams. I saw so many great drummers, like Ed Blackwell and Billy Higgins, Louis Hayes. I saw Al Foster play quite a bit, Billy Hart, Jack DeJohnette. All these people, they’re in New York so I got a chance to watch them do their thing”.
| Name | Cindy Blackman Santana |
| First Name | Claudio |
| Last Name | Circhetta |
| Occupation | Drummer |
| Birthday | November 18 |
| Birth Year | 1959 |
| Place of Birth | Yellow Springs |
| Home Town | Ohio |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Scorpio |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Carlos Santana |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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In 1993, Blackman had an opportunity to work with Lenny Kravitz. From New York, Blackman talked over the phone with Kravitz in Los Angeles, and played drums for him as he listened. Kravitz immediately asked Blackman to fly out to LA. “Lenny asked me can you play something for me over the phone”, Blackman says. “So I put the phone down and I started playing something like, BOOSH-bat-bat, BOOSH-BOOSH-BOOSH-bat, and I went back to the phone and I said, ‘Can you hear that?’ He said, ‘Yeah. Can you fly out to L.A. right now?'” “I flew out the next morning. While I’m downstairs waiting for the instruments to come from the studio, these people started coming in. First 12, and then like 30 more. I was like, ‘whoa, this is an audition’. I ended up playing and instead of staying for one or two days, I stayed for two weeks and did the first video that I did with him, “Are You Gonna Go My Way”. Apart from 2004, I played with him ever since.”
Cindy Blackman Santana Net Worth
Cindy Blackman Santana is one of the richest Drummer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Cindy Blackman Santana's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Born November 18, 1959 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Blackman comes from a musical family, both her mother and grandmother were classical musicians and her uncle a vibist. “My mom, when she was younger, played violin in classical orchestras, and her mom, incidentally, was a classical musician. My mom used to take me to see classical concerts”, says Blackman. “My dad was into jazz – Miles Davis, Ahmad Jamal, people like that.” Blackman’s first introduction to the drums happened when she was seven years old in her hometown of Yellow Springs, Ohio and attending a pool party at a friend’s house, she went to use the bathroom and saw a drum set and just hopped onto the set. “Just looking at them struck something in my core, and it was completely right from the second I saw them”, says Blackman. “And then, when I hit them, it was like, wow, that’s me. That’s completely natural for me. It’s like breathing for me. It didn’t feel awkward at all.”
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Drummer |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
In 1994 Blackman made her first recording with a working group and called the album Telepathy because of the tight communication in the band. “I wanted to do a quartet record because of the amount of space you get with fewer players”, she said in Telepathy’s liner notes. “It’s intimate, but more dimensional than a piano trio. I’m really into this sound, and it was nice to play with a group that was a group. You can’t help but have a better feel when the musicians know each other, are headed in the same direction, and have the same goals. You can make most everything work. You get chances to play a lot of colors, and really stretch your ideas.”
Blackman attended a Baptist church during her teenage years, but became a follower of the Baháʼí Faith at the age of 18; she also started studying Kabbalah in the 2000s. Blackman cultivates spirituality in her musicianship. “I believe that music is so sacred that once you’re playing music you are doing the work of prayer, whether you’re conscious of it or not, because you have a focused intent”, says Blackman. “You transcend, because you’re crossing barriers that a lot of people and even us as musicians don’t normally venture to, because we don’t think about it. When you can learn to move those energies, even if they’re sad, into something that is of benefit, like focusing on bringing light to people who are listening, or just to the universe in general, then you can do something good with it. I don’t keep that in mind 100 per cent of the time – I’m human – but I try to.”
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
In 1984, Blackman was showcased on Ted Curson’s “Jazz Stars of the Future” on WKCR-FM in New York. In 1987, Blackman’s first compositions appeared on Wallace Roney’s Verses album. When an executive at Muse Records heard Blackman’s recordings, he offered her a recording contract to lead her own project. In 1988 Blackman released Arcane, her debut as a bandleader. Her band included Wallace Roney on trumpet, Kenny Garrett on alto saxophone, Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Buster Williams and Clarence Seay on bass, and Larry Willis on piano.
In 2005 Blackman released Music for the New Millennium on her Sacred Sounds Label. “It’s rooted in tradition, but it’s not traditional music. It’s explorative, very creative, very expressive, and we really try to expand any ideas we have that everything is played over the forms, but we like to stretch it, and really see the colors and make the music grow and move”, says Blackman. “We experiment – but it’s never free. Everything is written out. I have charts for all the songs. We expand on what’s there, and stretch harmonics and note choices”.
Who is Cindy Blackman Santana Dating?
According to our records, Cindy Blackman Santana married to Carlos Santana . As of December 1, 2023, Cindy Blackman Santana’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Cindy Blackman Santana. You may help us to build the dating records for Cindy Blackman Santana!In an article published May 1, 2004, NPR reported that Blackman had left Kravitz’s group to focus on her own music. “I love danceable music, and I love big fat beats and I really dig rock ‘n’ roll”, says Blackman. “But jazz is my heart, it’s my love, and I’ve never left jazz in mind or spirit”.
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Blackman continues to make her home in Brooklyn in New York City. “It’s always such an amazing place, with every level of musical accomplishment, you can see complete beginners and you can see innovators. That’s why I live in New York. Not only is it tough, but all the greatest people have come through New York”, says Blackman. Blackman prefers to play jazz in small, intimate clubs. “It’s an acoustic situation. You are close-knit and you are creating one hundred percent of the time – so to me it just doesn’t really get any better that!” Blackman also travels extensively conducting drum clinics. In September 2007, she made a tour of South America, teaching clinics in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil, and on November 30, 2007, Blackman and her quartet performed at Art After 5 at the Philadelphia Art Museum.
Is Carlos Santana still married to Cindy Blackman?
Guitar legend Carlos Santana, 63, married fiancée Cindy Blackman, 51, in Maui on Sunday!
What nationality is Cindy Blackman Santana?
American
Is Carlos Santana daughter a drummer?
Cindy Blackman Santana is a virtuoso drummer whose artistry spans the realms of jazz and rock. As a bandleader and as a musician, Cindy is a sound innovator with a passion for pushing creative boundaries and exploring movement and change.
Who is Santana's wife?
Wife
Why did Santana divorce?
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Guitarist Carlos Santana and his wife of 34 years are divorcing, according to documents filed in Marin County Superior Court. Deborah Santana, who in her 2005 memoir, “Space Between the Stars,” described her husband as being unfaithful, moved to dissolve their marriage on Oct.
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