Cindy Blackman
Drummer
1959 –
Who is Cindy Blackman?
Cindy Blackman, sometimes known as Cindy Blackman-Santana, is an American jazz and rock drummer. Blackman is best known for recording and touring with Lenny Kravitz. Blackman has recorded several straight-ahead jazz albums under her own name, and has performed with acclaimed jazz and rock artists, including Pharoah Sanders, Ron Carter, Sam Rivers, Cassandra Wilson, Angela Bofill, Buckethead, Bill Laswell and Joe Henderson. Tony Williams is her main drumming influence. In 1997 she recorded Multiplicity as a drum teaching video. "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.
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- Born
- Nov 18, 1959
Yellow Springs - Also known as
- Blackman, Cindy
- Cynthia R. Blackman
- Cindy Blackman-Santana
- Spouses
- Carlos Santana
(2010/12/19 - )
- Carlos Santana
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Berklee College of Music
- University of Hartford
- Lived in
- Yellow Springs
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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