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Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman Santana Cover John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’Couple discuss the late Beatle, life in quarantine and the future of Santana Carlos Santana and his wife, drummer Cindy Blackman Santana, covered John Lennon’s “Imagine” to raise money to feed those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Carlos and Cindy partnered with WhyHunger — an organization founded by Harry Chapin in 1975 — and SongAid, a global platform that allows artists to donate proceeds to charities. The cover also appears on Cindy’s upcoming album, Give the Drummer Some, slated for mid-September release. “Now more than ever, it’s important that we all come together to ensure no one in our world goes hungry,” Yoko Ono said in a statement. “I am excited that Cindy Blackman Santana and Carlos Santana’s beautiful rendition of ‘Imagine’ is helping to kick off this important campaign and bring my late husband John Lennon’s vision of a peaceful world, free from hunger, to this critical cause.” Beginning Friday, SongAid will release a weekly playlist of songs by artists contributing to the cause, with proceeds going to WhyHunger’s Rapid Response Fund. In addition to “Imagine,” other tracks on this week’s playlist include Tom Morello’s “Save the Hammer for the Man,” Darryl “DMC” McDaniel and the Hellraisers’ “I Was Born” and “Take the ‘A’ Train” by the Silkroad Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma. Future artists to appear on playlists include Wilco, Steve Miller and more. Carlos and Cindy called Rolling Stone from their home in Hawaii — where they’ve been hunkered down in quarantine since March — to discuss the cover, life in isolation and the future of Santana. “This is the time and the place to say that John Lennon was ahead of a lot of people with ‘Imagine,'” Carlos says. “It’s about love and love alone.” Why did you choose to cover “Imagine”? Did you guys talk to Yoko about it? Cindy: We didn’t talk to her about it, but we did get the thumbs up of approval when she heard it. She said she loved it, so we’re really honored. What kind of impact do you think the song has on the pandemic? I truly believe that John Lennon was a warrior reincarnated with war paint on his face, but he wanted to create peace. In other words, when you have war paint on your face, it means that you’re not afraid to die and you don’t take crap from anybody. So to me, John Lennon is the warrior and George Harrison was a spiritual peace warrior and I admire both qualities immensely. Why did you decide to partner with WhyHunger? We’ve noticed that they’ve been very diligently trying to put together these song releases; our song will be the lead track of this campaign. They’ve been working really hard. We love their integrity and we love their work ethic and we love the fact that they are doing this for the right reason. Cindy, what is it like to prepare to release an album in the middle of a pandemic? And so we really feel that this is the right time to release this record. We’re motivated by helping, uplifting and inspiring people. Showing people that they are light and helping them feel their own heart centers and cores, because that will uplift the vibratory frequency of everyone else. With all of this unexpected time that we’re spending at home, what have you both been up to? Ego is like, “My daddy is better than your daddy,” and, “My religion is better and you’re gonna go to hell.” That’s adolescent ego. But the spiritual adult is when we’re all in heaven and we don’t have to die. We all nurture one another [and] feed one another. People who are really in a place to really live their spiritual adultness, they become more gentle, more kind, more compassionate, and more vibrant. What are your days like in Hawaii? How often are you playing guitar at home? You had a really busy year lined up with your Las Vegas
residency and a tour with Earth, Wind and Fire. What is it like to not
be able to perform? I’m 72, but I feel like I’m 17, not even 27. I want to get into some serious adventure. So I’m grateful that we have the opportunity to possibly do this next year with our brothers Earth, Wind and Fire. I learned a long time ago that a path of love devotion is surrender — and surrender is a beautiful thing, too. When you first surrender to the ocean, you don’t get wiped out so much. You become part of the ocean. So I surrender to where we are right now. I feel like I’m becoming more. Are you worried that by the time you can perform again, it will be hard to resume at your age? Will you feel comfortable performing before a vaccine has come out? I really enjoyed Santana IV, but you guys didn’t do a proper tour. Do you ever think you’ll reunite with the original band again? Have you guys been listening to any kind of music while you’ve been there? Carlos: Yes. Jazz is very evolved music. With all respect, it’s not greasy kid stuff. I’ve been saying it a long time: jazz is an ocean and then you have a lake and then you have a bathtub. Some people are in the bathtub; they’re afraid to go to the lake. I hang around a deep lake, I don’t necessarily go to the ocean with Charlie Parker and Coltrane. If you take the names in the genre, you’re dealing with frequency, and the frequency that Cindy and I listen to is the frequency of spiritual consciousness that moves the heart. Is there anything that you want to say to your fans right now? Instead of a quarantine, I would like to look at it as an incubation, so that we can birth a new everything. A new us, a new you, a new me, a new way that we treat society, a new way that we treat our elders. We don’t want people to think of negativities as their go-to. We want people to see light and to see the divinity in everyone and in all of creation. Carlos: Let me say it slow: May the heavens open up and the angels bless each and every one with the deep awareness of your own light. from www.rollingstone.com |
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