‘In our hearts we are all one’
29 Oct 2012 10:13 PM GMT
Carlos Santana, the 10-time Grammy winner and guitar legend, is in Delhi with wife Cindy Blackman for a performance at the F1 Rocks. He had, earlier in Bangalore, told the press ‘in our hearts, we are all one.’
Spreading the same message of world peace at the Delhi presser, Santana said, ‘I still adhere and live by the principles of the 60’s and music for me is to bring about global peace at large.’
‘What religion and politics failed to achieve, like human trafficking and child labour, we are trying to do away with by spreading the message of peace and love,’ the 65-year-old said.
‘We want to make music, heal people, honour and respect women and children so that we can stop war all over the world,’ he said.
Santana, a self proclaimed hippie, said the true hippie is is an individual ‘who does not belong to a herd.’
He added it is about taking a stand. ‘We, during the movement in the 60’s, clearly made a point across to the Pentagon and then President Richard Nixon that no we are not afraid to die but we won’t die to make him richer.’
‘The youth today’, he quipped,’ ‘have other preoccupations like the stupid TV.’
He added the spirit of a hippie lies in having ‘the courage to go against the corrupt system and to agree to disagree.’
Dressed in a Hawaiian printed shirt and trousers, a black hat, Santana was accompanied by his wife Cindy Blackman.
About his music he said: ‘My music is 99 percent African. Like spirituality and spices are to India, rhythm is to Africa.’
He added: When I play music, it’s more than Mexican or American or Cubic. It is more than a genre. It is to re-connect with your heart, something we learned from you.
India, he said, is the land of spirituality, of great people like Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa who taught world peace.
Santana said that he is open to any collaboration with Indian artistes but the time and music has to be right. ‘I would have loved to collaborate with Ali Akbar Khan, but it didn’t happen till now’.
Santana said he is in awe of Indian food. ‘I wish there was a television channel wholly dedicated to Indian cuisines.’ ‘We had masala dosa for our breakfast,’ quipped his wife Cindy.
Spreading the same message of world peace at the Delhi presser, Santana said, ‘I still adhere and live by the principles of the 60’s and music for me is to bring about global peace at large.’
‘What religion and politics failed to achieve, like human trafficking and child labour, we are trying to do away with by spreading the message of peace and love,’ the 65-year-old said.
‘We want to make music, heal people, honour and respect women and children so that we can stop war all over the world,’ he said.
Santana, a self proclaimed hippie, said the true hippie is is an individual ‘who does not belong to a herd.’
He added it is about taking a stand. ‘We, during the movement in the 60’s, clearly made a point across to the Pentagon and then President Richard Nixon that no we are not afraid to die but we won’t die to make him richer.’
‘The youth today’, he quipped,’ ‘have other preoccupations like the stupid TV.’
He added the spirit of a hippie lies in having ‘the courage to go against the corrupt system and to agree to disagree.’
Dressed in a Hawaiian printed shirt and trousers, a black hat, Santana was accompanied by his wife Cindy Blackman.
About his music he said: ‘My music is 99 percent African. Like spirituality and spices are to India, rhythm is to Africa.’
He added: When I play music, it’s more than Mexican or American or Cubic. It is more than a genre. It is to re-connect with your heart, something we learned from you.
India, he said, is the land of spirituality, of great people like Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa who taught world peace.
Santana said that he is open to any collaboration with Indian artistes but the time and music has to be right. ‘I would have loved to collaborate with Ali Akbar Khan, but it didn’t happen till now’.
Santana said he is in awe of Indian food. ‘I wish there was a television channel wholly dedicated to Indian cuisines.’ ‘We had masala dosa for our breakfast,’ quipped his wife Cindy.
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