Cindy Blackman Santana

**Cindy Blackman** (an haife ta a ranar 18 ga Nuwamba, 1959),  wacce aka fi sani da **Cindy Blackman Santana** tun lokacin da ta auri ɗan guitar Carlos Santana a shekarar 2010, ƙwararriyar mai buga waƙoƙin jazz da rock ce ta Amurka wadda take yin waƙoƙi tun daga shekarun 1980. Blackman ta yi rikodin kundin waƙoƙin jazz da dama a matsayin shugaban ƙungiyar mawaka kuma ta yi wasa tare da Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Simmons, Ron Carter, Sam Rivers, Cassandra Wilson, Angela Bofill, Buckethead, Bill Laswell, Lenny Kravitz, Joe Henderson, Joss Stone da Carlos Santana .

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Blackman a ranar 18 ga Nuwamba, 1959, a Yellow Springs, Ohio .  Mahaifiyarta da kakarta mawakan gargajiya ne kuma kawunta mai yawon buɗe ido ne.  Tun tana ƙarama, mahaifiyarta ta kai ta wurin wasannin kide-kide na gargajiya. 

Gabatarwar Blackman ga ganguna ya faru ne tana da shekaru bakwai a Yellow Springs. A wani liyafa a gidan wata kawa, ta ga ganga ta fara bugawa. "Kallon su kawai ya buga wani abu a cikin zuciyata, kuma ya kasance daidai tun daga lokacin da na gan su," in ji Blackman. "Sannan, lokacin da na buge su, sai na ce, kai, ni ne."  Ba da daɗewa ba, Blackman ta fara wasa a ƙungiyar mawakan makaranta kuma ta shawo kan iyayenta su sayi ganguna na kayan wasanta.  

Lokacin da Blackman ke da shekaru 11, ta ƙaura zuwa Bristol, Connecticut,  inda ta halarci Makarantar Kiɗa ta Hartt da ke Hartford .  Blackman ta fara sha'awar jazz tun tana ɗan shekara 13 bayan ta saurari Max Roach kuma ta sami saitin ganguna na ƙwararru na farko a lokacin tana da shekaru 14.  

Daga nan Blackman ta halarci Kwalejin Kiɗa ta Berklee da ke Boston, inda ta yi karatu tare da Alan Dawson,  wanda shi ma ya koyar da Tony Williams, wani abin koyi ga Blackman.  Yayin da take Berklee, wata kawarta ta ba ta shawarar yin wasa tare da The Drifters,  don haka Blackman ta bar kwaleji bayan zangon karatu uku ta koma birnin New York a shekarar 1982. 

## Sana'a

A birnin New York, Blackman ya yi aiki a matsayin mai wasan kwaikwayo  amma kuma ya halarci wasannin kwaikwayo don sauraron wasu suna wasa.  Art Blakey ya zama babban tasiri.  Blackman ya ce, "da gaske yana kama da uba a gare ni. Na koyi abubuwa da yawa kawai ina kallonsa. Na yi masa tambayoyi da yawa game da ganguna da kiɗa - kuma ya amsa dukkansu." 

A shekarar 1984, an nuna Blackman a cikin *Jazz Stars of the Future* na Ted Curson a WKCR-FM a New York.  A shekarar 1987, waƙoƙin Blackman na farko sun bayyana a cikin kundin Wallace Roney 's *Verses* .  A shekarar 1988 Blackman ta fitar da *Arcane* a cikin Muse Records, farkonta a matsayin shugabar ƙungiyar mawaka.  Ƙungiyarta ta haɗa da Wallace Roney a cikin ƙaho, Kenny Garrett a cikin alto saxophone, Joe Henderson a cikin tenor saxophone, Buster Williams da Clarence Seay a cikin bass, da Larry Willis a cikin piano. 

### Yi aiki tare da Lenny Kravitz

A shekarar 1993, Blackman ya sami damar yin aiki tare da Lenny Kravitz . Daga New York, Blackman ya yi magana ta waya da Kravitz a Los Angeles, kuma ya buga masa ganguna yayin da yake sauraro. Nan da nan Kravitz ya nemi Blackman ya tashi zuwa Los Angeles. Ta zauna na tsawon makonni biyu, ciki har da ɗaukar bidiyon " Are You Gonna Go My Way ".  Za ta ci gaba da yin shekaru 18 a matsayin mai buga ganguna na yawon buɗe ido na Kravitz. 

### Aiki na kaɗaici

A ƙarshen shekarun 1990, Blackman ta yi rikodinta na farko tare da ƙungiyar ma'aikata. Sun sanya wa kundin suna *Telepathy* saboda rashin sadarwa sosai a cikin ƙungiyar.  Blackman da ƙungiyarta suma sun yi rikodin bidiyon koyarwa mai suna *Multiplicity.* 

A shekara ta 2004, Blackman ta huta daga yawon shakatawa da Lenny Kravitz don mayar da hankali kan waƙoƙinta.  A wannan shekarar, ta fitar da *Music for the New Millennium* a kan Sacred Sounds Label ɗinta.  "Muna gwaji - amma ba a taɓa samunsa kyauta ba. An rubuta komai. Ina da jadawalin duk waƙoƙin. Muna faɗaɗa abin da ke wurin, kuma muna shimfiɗa harmonics da zaɓin bayanin kula". 

A watan Satumba na 2007, ta yi rangadin Kudancin Amurka, tana koyar da asibitoci a Argentina, Chile, da Brazil,  kuma a ranar 30 ga Nuwamba, 2007, Blackman da 'yan wasanta sun yi wasa a Art After 5 a Gidan Tarihi na Fasaha na Philadelphia .

A shekarar 2010, ta fitar da kundin waƙoƙi na farko da aka yi wa wahayi zuwa gare ta, Tony Williams . Wani littafin Lifetime ya ƙunshi Mike Stern a kan guitar da organist Doug Carn bayan jerin waƙoƙin Tony Williams Lifetime na asali. Yayin da mawakan baƙi suka bayyana , Joe Lovano, Patrice Rushen da Vernon Reid . Reid ita ce babbar mai guitar a kundin waƙoƙin yabo na Williams na biyu , Spectrum Road (2012), haɗin gwiwa tsakanin Blackman, Reid, John Medeski a kan organ da tsohon mai bass na Lifetime da Cream Jack Bruce . Bruce kuma tana rera waƙa a waƙoƙi uku na kundin kuma Blackman ta ba da muryarta ga "Where", wanda John McLaughlin (wanda a lokacin yake girkawa) ya rubuta kuma Williams ya rera ( Emergency!, 1969), wanda ya riga ya fito a cikin wani nau'in kayan kida. Ta bayyana a bikin Montreux Jazz na 2011 a Switzerland, inda ta buga ganguna don sake haɗuwa da mijinta Carlos na lokaci ɗaya da John McLaughlin, bayan haka ta taimaka wajen haɗa sautin don bidiyon.

A shekarar 2020, ta fitar da kundin waƙoƙi 17 mai suna *Give the Drummer Some.* A cikin wannan kundin, tana rera waƙoƙi 11. Kundin ya haɗa da wasan kwaikwayo na John McLaughlin, Matthew Garrison, Vernon Reid, Kirk Hammett, Bill Ortiz, da Neal Evans . 

## Rayuwa ta sirri

A ranar 9 ga Yuli, 2010, Carlos Santana ya nemi auren Blackman a kan dandamali a lokacin wani wasan kwaikwayo a Tinley Park, Illinois .  Blackman ita ce mai buga ganga mai yawon shakatawa ta Santana; ya nemi aurenta jim kaɗan bayan ta yi wa ganga solo. An yi aurensu a Maui, Hawaii a ranar 19 ga Disamba, 2010. 

Blackman ta halarci cocin Baptist a lokacin ƙuruciyarta, amma ta zama mai bin addinin Baháʼí tun tana 'yar shekara 18; ta kuma fara karatun Kabbalah a shekarun 2000.  Blackman ta gina ruhaniya a cikin aikinta na kiɗa.  "Na yi imani cewa kiɗa yana da tsarki sosai har da zarar kana yin kiɗa kana yin aikin addu'a, ko kana sane da shi ko a'a, domin kana da niyyar mai da hankali," in ji Blackman. 

Blackman ba kasafai ake samunsa a matsayin mace mai buga kida ta jazz ba.  "A da, akwai kyama da yawa da ake dangantawa da mata suna buga wasu kayan kida," in ji Blackman. "Kowace mace, ko duk wanda ke fuskantar wariyar launin fata, wariyar nauyi, wariyar gashi ... idan ka bar wani ya dakatar da kai saboda ra'ayinsa, to abin da kawai kake yi shi ne cutar da kanka. Ba na son ba wa wani iko a kaina." 

## Kundin Waƙoƙi

### A matsayin shugaba

* *Arcane* tare da Wallace Roney, Joe Henderson, Kenny Garrett, Larry Willis, Buster Williams, Clarence Seay (Muse, 1987)
* *Lambar Ja* tare da Steve Coleman, Wallace Roney, Kenny Barron, Lonnie Plaxico ( Muse, 1990 [1992])
* *Sadarwa* da Antoine Roney, Jacky Terrasson, Clarence Seay (Muse, 1992 [1994])
* *Littafin Oracle* tare da Gary Bartz, Kenny Barron, da Ron Carter (Muse, 1996)
* *A cikin Yanzu* tare da Ravi Coltrane, Jacky Terrasson, da Ron Carter ( HighNote, 1998)
* *Yana aiki akan Canvas* tare da JD Allen III (tenor sax), Carlton Holmes (keyboards), George Mitchell (bass) (HighNote, 1999)
* *A Lil' Somethin' Somethin' – Mafi Kyawun Shekarun Muse* (tarin, 32 Jazz, 2000)
* *Wata rana...* tare da Allen, Holmes, Mitchell (HighNote, 2001)
* *Kiɗa don Sabuwar Millennium* tare da Allen, Holmes, Mitchell (Sacred Sound, 2004)
* *Wani Rayuwa* tare da Mike Stern da Doug Carn tare da baƙi Joe Lovano, Vernon Reid, Patrice Rushen, Benny Rietveld da David Santos (4 Q, 2010)
* *Ba wa Mai Buga Kayan Gasa Wasu* (Makomar Yanzu, 2020)

### A matsayin shugaba ko kuma abokiyar zama
**Tare da Eddie Allen**

* *Kwanakin bazara* (Enja, 2000)

* "Funk Not Fight" (Bootzilla Records, 2023)

* *Fim ɗin Trio + Two* tare da Greg Osby da Jerry Gonzalez (Free Lance, 1991)

**Tare da Melinda Doolittle**

* *Dawowa Gare Ku* (Sannu Fi, 2009)

* *Duniyar Madadin* (Bayanin Flying, 2011)

**Tare da Russell Gunn**

* *Love Requiem* (HighNote, 1999)

**Tare da 'Yan'uwan Isley da Santana**

* *Ikon Zaman Lafiya* (Sony Legacy, 2017)

**Tare da Rodney Kendrick**

* *Launukan Waƙa* (Impulse!, 2014)

**Tare da Lenny Kravitz**

* *5* (Virgin, 1998) (waƙa ta 5)

**Tare da Greg Lewis**

* *Organ Monk* (Greg Lewis Music, 2010)

* *Passagem* (Enja, 1996)

**Tare da Wallace Roney**

* *Intuition* (Muse, 1988)
* *Mai ɗaukar kaya na Standard* (Muse, 1989)
* *Sha'awa* (Muse, 1990)

**Tare da Santana**

* *Corazón* (RCA, 2014)
* *Corazón: Kai tsaye daga México - Live It to Belief It* (RCA, 2014)
* *Ikon Zaman Lafiya* (2017)
* *Afirka Tana Magana* (2019)
* *Neman Mona Lisa (2019)*
* *Albarka da Mu'ujizai* (2021)
* *[[Sentient (Santana album)|Mai Jin Daɗi]]* (2025)

**Tare da Carlos Santana da John McLaughlin**

* *Kai tsaye a Montreux 2011: Gayyatar Haske* (DVD) (Eagle Rock, 2015)

**Tare da Saxemble**

* *Saxemble* (Qwest, 1996)

**Tare da Sonny Simmons**

* *Jungle na Amurka* (Qwest, 1997)

**Tare da Spectrum Road ( Jack Bruce, Vernon Reid, John Medeski, Blackman Santana)**

* *Hanyar Spectrum* ( Palmetto, 2012)

**Tare da Mike Stern**

* *Babban Unguwa* (Heads Up, 2009)

**Tare da Joss Stone**

* *Zaman Rai* (S-Curve, 2003)
* *Jiki da Rai na Zuciya* (S-Curve, 2004)

**Tare da Alicyn Yaffee**

* *Wani* (Madman Junkyard / Little Green Butterfly, 2016)

* *Black Night – Deep Purple Tribute According to New York* with TM Stevens, Stevie Salas, Corey Glover, Richie Kotzen (Revolver, 1997)

## Manazarta