Cindy Blackman Santana

Cindy Blackman Santana was born in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and started playing drums as a child. She moved to New York in the 1980s, where she worked as a street musician before building a career in jazz and rock.

She released albums such as Another Lifetime, a tribute to drummer Tony Williams, and played for years with Lenny Kravitz. In 2016, she joined the Santana band and also kept her own projects, among them Give the Drummer Some.