Cindy Blackman Santana’s Solo Album Give The Drummer Some is Set for Global Release on September 18, 2020

Nashville, Tenn., (June 16, 2020)--Copperline Music Group has entered into a distribution agreement with virtuoso drummer and vocalist, Cindy Blackman Santana. This worldwide deal will include physical and digital distribution of Blackman Santana’s solo album Give The Drummer Some, which is set for global release on September 18, 2020. Encompassing seventeen songs and featuring the creme de la crème of guitarists, including eight songs with Carlos Santana, two songs with John McLaughlin, three songs with Vernon Reid, and one song with Kirk Hammett, Give The Drummer Some is an eclectic mixture of old school funk and radio-friendly rock/pop combined with rock and jazz instrumentals, featuring Blackman Santana’s incredible versatility both behind the kit and in front of the microphone.  

“Cindy is such a creative force and CMG is thrilled to get her music out into the world,” says CMG’s Head of A&R and Label Acquisitions Dewayne Brown.  

“For this album, if I had any kind of agenda at all, it was to be all-encompassing,” says Blackman Santana. “Pop, funk, rock, jazz – I embrace the creativity in all of it, and I feel so inspired when I play it. That’s what I want people to feel when they listen to the album – inspired. I am grateful to CMG to help bring my vision to the world.”

As a bandleader and as a musician, Cindy Blackman Santana is a sound innovator with a passion for pushing creative boundaries and exploring movement and change. She is as known for the nuances and colors she brings to her beats and fills as she is for the sheer power of her soulful playing. Give The Drummer Some, with songs produced by Narada Michael Walden, Cindy Blackman Santana, and Carlos Santana, highlights her incredible gift.

For the first single, released on May 29, Blackman Santana and her husband Carlos Santana joined forces with SongAid and WhyHunger’s ongoing effort to fight the global hunger crisis exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic with their version of the John Lennon and Yoko Ono-penned classic “Imagine.” View the music video for “Imagine” HERE.

About Cindy Blackman Santana 
From the beginning of her career as a busking street performer in New York City in the ’80s through the present day, Cindy Blackman Santana has been touring the globe and making albums with artists including Pharoah Sanders, Cassandra Wilson, Bill Laswell, Joss Stone, Joe Henderson, Buckethead, Don Pullen, Hugh Masakela, Jackie McLean, Don Pullen, Buster Williams, and Angela Bofill. She writes, records, and performs with her own bands, Cindy Blackman Santana Group, and Another Lifetime, which released its critically-acclaimed self-titled debut in 2010. From 1992 to 2007 and again in 2014 and 2015 she was the drummer in Lenny Kravitz’s band, performing through multiple world tours and hit albums. In 2011, she joined forces with Vernon Reid, Jack Bruce, and John Medeski to form the celebrated Spectrum Road, which released an album and tour dedicated to the music of Tony Williams. In 2016, she joined Santana full-time and has been mesmerizing audiences around the globe ever since. In 2017, she and Carlos Santana teamed up with the Isley Brothers to release “Power of Peace” (SONY) and followed it up with the two most recent Santana releases: the EP In Search of Mona Lisa (2019) and full-length Africa Speaks (2019). On September 18, fall 2020, she will deliver a new solo album, Give The Drummer Some.  For more information, visit www.cindyblackmansantana.com.

About Copperline Music Group
Copperline Music Group formed in 2017 by artist manager Rusty Harmon (Hootie and the Blowfish) and multi-Grammy/Emmy winning producer Will Edwards, who has written and produced original music for over 150 feature films and television shows.  The multi-faceted label group has developed into a new breed of entertainment company-- offering label services including radio promotion, marketing, social media management, publicity, creative, artists booking, music publishing, sync licensing and studio services, in addition to digital distribution, artist development, and artist management. CMG Distribution, working with music, film, and video distribution company The Orchard, currently represents a growing roster to include Artist Max (Mira Goto), Black Sheep Label Group (Michael Austin, Matthew Koerner), Bristol Records (Rod Black, Hillbilly Vegas), Cindy Blackman Santana, Lozen Entertainment Group (Dave McElroy, Bridgette Tatum), Maven Entertainment (John Schneider), and Rollin’ The Dice Records (Stone Senate). CMG Management represents Cody Webb, Hudson Moore, and John Schneider. CMG Records artist roster includes The Davisson Brothers Band and Cody Webb. For more information, please visit www.CopperlineMusicGroup.com.

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Contact for Cindy Blackman Santana and Carlos Santana:
Michael Jensen and Erin Cook, Jensen Communications, 626-585-9575, mj@jensencom.comand erin@jensencom.com

Contact for Copperline Music Group: 
Karen Tallier, LOUDMOUTH pr, 615-210-2130, karen@myloudmouth.com