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Cindy Blackman Santana

1959–

United States

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Cindy Blackman Santana (née Blackman; born November 18, 1959) is an American jazz and rock drummer. Beginning in the 1980s, she has recorded several jazz albums as a bandleader and has performed with Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Simmons, Ron Carter, Sam Rivers, Cassandra Wilson, Angela Bofill, Buckethead, Bill Laswell, Lenny Kravitz, Joe Henderson, Joss Stone and her husband Carlos Santana.

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