First thread....

[k j]

and it's off-topic. :P

Carlos Santana, praising his wife, is on CBS right now.
Okay, it's over. For those west of Central Time Zone, Carlos will be on the first 15 minutes of The American Morning Show (or whatever it's called).

[frogmarch]

1. I love thread starters

that make me do some research. (I love researching stuff.) I'd never heard of Carlos Santana or his wife, so, true to my nature, I had to find out who they were.

What I found out about Deborah Santana, Carlos's wife, is that she has written a book called Space Between the Stars, My Journey to an Open Heart. The book is also availabe as an audio book.

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780739316849

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Contains original music from Carlos Santana and Salvador Santana, and classic songs from Saunders King on a bonus CD plus an exclusive interview with Deborah and Carlos Santana

Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King–her life was charged with its own drama long before she married.

In this beautiful, haunting memoir, Deborah Santana shares for the first time her early experiences with racial intolerance, her romantic involvement with musician Sly Stone and the suffering she endured in that relationship, and her adventures in the freewheeling 1960s. Yet it is her spiritual awakening that is the core of this story. The civil rights movement was the foundation of her growth, the Woodstock era the backdrop of her love with Carlos. The couple was drawn indelibly together by a search for truth and spirituality, but while yearning to be filled with God’s light, they were pulled dangerously toward a manipulative cult. They eventually disengage themselves from the guru and reclaim control of their lives, putting their love for each other before the cult’s increasingly strenuous demands.

Space Between the Stars is a moving account of self-discovery, rendered in raw, beautiful prose, by a woman whose heart has remained pure even in times of despair. As Deborah Santana talks frankly about her lifelong fight against racial injustice and her deep-seated loyalty to her family, ultimately it is the struggle to remain a spiritual and artistic force in her own right, in the shadow of one of the world’s most revered musicians, that shines through as her most indomitable pursuit.

Thanks, kj!

[fedupinBushcountry]

2. KJ and her music ;-)

First time I saw Santana was in 1972 at the top of Diamondhead in Hawaii. I will never forget it, those were the days. Oh and it was a free concert.