Santana recently teased fans by sharing a new song ‘Yo Me Lo Merezco’ from the group’s forthcoming album,
‘Africa Speaks’ with a trip animated video. Inspired by African rhythms, sounds and melodies, fans can expect the release of the full album on June 7 via Concord Records. The group teamed up with producer, Rick Rubin and recorded 49 songs in 10 days at Rubin’s Shangri La Studios in Malibu. Santana was quoted saying that the track is “killer, African, dynamic, vibrant, filled with exuberance. It feels like this was meant to be … like a gift from heaven to receive and give to the masses.” The album features an eight-piece band – including vocals of Afro-Latin singer Buika and Santana’s wife Cindy Blackman on drums.
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The 1969 Woodstock Festival
Today, 49 years ago, the Woodstock Festival was held outside New York on Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel.
The Woodstock Festival was a three-day concert attended by over 400,000 people and involved a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock ’n roll. The event featured artists such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Band, Joe Cocker, Arlo Guthrie, Blood Sweat and Tears, Country Joe and the Fish, Ravi Shanker Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Santana, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Canned Heat, Joan Baez, Melanie, Ten Years After, Sly and the Family Stone, Johnny Winter, and Jefferson Airplane.
Organised by four young men, John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld, and Mike Lang, the 1969 Woodstock Festival became an icon of the 60’s hippie counterculture. The oldest of the four at the time was only 27 years old.
