Injecting a new song into this mix is a heady proposition, and Blackman Santana acknowledges being nervous about presenting it to her husband. This CD wakes you up beyond religion, beyond politics, beyond nations. If they were playing this music on CNN there would be less suicide bombers and people with twisted and crooked minds, invested in believing that you have to kill someone in order to get to heaven. “This CD has the frequency of inspiration. “Every era has its songs, whether it’s Pete Seeger or Bob Dylan or Bob Marley or Curtis Mayfield, to help alleviate the condition of brutality and war. “The theme is spiritual divine medicine to counter the fever pitch fear that’s permeating this planet right now,” Santana explains. I said, ‘Look, I want to do a record with you, a CD with you,’ and that’s how it started.”Īs Power Of Peace‘s title indicates, there’s a thematic chord to the 13-song set (culled from 16 recorded during a four-day session), with carefully chosen covers of timely peace-and-love-themed songs by the Chambers Brothers (“Are You Ready,” “Love, Peace, Happiness”), Stevie Wonder (“Higher Ground”), the Impressions (“Gypsy Woman”), Marvin Gaye (“Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)”, Bacharach (“What The World Needs Now is Love Sweet Love”), Sy Miller and Jill Jackson’s “Let There Be Peace On Earth” and more. “Somebody found out that Cindy and I are totally Ronald Isley fans, so he came to visit us in St. Louis because (Isley’s) sister-in-law was singing with Rod Stewart’s band and we went on tour with Rod Stewart,” Santana tells Billboard.
“Something just grew in me to reach out to the universe, and before I know it we met in St.
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