The Pulse of Entertainment: Drummer Cindy
Blackman Santana to Release New Album, Touring at HOBs with Carlos Santana this Summer, Performing at the Hard Rock Vegas
Throughout May
"I have multiple things going on with
Santana," said Cindy Blackman, drummer for the Carlos Santana Band, about her upcoming
projects during a talk with The Pulse of Entertainment. "We start up in May. HOB (House of Blues) for a summer
tour....and he's (Carlos) is working on a new release."
Cindy is a Jazz/Rock drummer who has played for many
artists and musicians. She is known for playing with Lenny Kravitz from 1992 - 2007, 2014 and 2015. She met Carlos in 2010
when she replaced his drummer Dennis Chambers and became the regular drummer for the Carlos Santana Band. That same year her
and Carlos married.
"I'm just in the beginning stages" Cindy Blackman Santana told
me when I asked about her upcoming solo project. "I'm finding music. My last record there's couple tracks that didn't
go on...at least one of those (is going on the new project)."
"It's something reflective of my Georgia
roots," said R&B/Country/Soul singer Alex Harris about his Shanachie Entertainment April 12, 2024
album release titled "Back to Us". "It's my interpretation of what I experienced, and I am
sharing it with the world."
Sent to radio around
Valentine's Day, ahead of the album release, was the single "Millionaire." Recorded in Nashville,
the "Back to Us" album features assistance from songwriters Ruby Amanfu (Beyonce'), Sam Ashworth (H.E.R.), David
Harris (H.E.R.), and Shannon Sanders (John Legend), and production assistance from David Harris (Alicia Keys) and Kelvin Welch
(Garth Brooks).
"He is in the middle,"
Alex said about his seven siblings, of which producer David Harris is one. "The oldest is a girl. I'm the youngest. There
are five brothers and three sisters. One is my God-brother we grew up with him."
Grammy Winning Tye Tribbett
Announces New Tour Produced by Live Nation
(Philadelphia,
PA) - Grammy winning Tye Tribbett announces his "Tye Tribbett and Freidns Only One Night
Tho 2024" tour. The tour is produced by Live Nation. Visiting 20-cities, the tour kicks off on May 16, 2024
at The Met in Philadelphia making stops across the U.S. in Brooklyn, Atlanta, Chicago and more before wrapping up in San Francisco
at The Masonic on June 14th.
R&B Artist Eric Benét to Headline Fort
Lauderdale Florida Music Festival on Saturday, March 9, 2024
(Ft. Lauderdale, Fl) - Multi-Grammy nominated Eric Benét added as headliner
for the 19th Annual Florida AIDS Walk & Music Festival, an annual spring break event in the South Florida community.
MAKO Girls Music Video for Single 'Aint Thinkin Bout You' on MTV Spankin' New
(Atlanta, GA) - Pop sensations the MAKO Girls' music video for their
latest single "Ain't Thinkin' 'Bout You" is airing on MTV Spankin' New. Sisters MiMi, A'ni, and Kena have performed
all ove rhte world - over three hundred performances. They sing. rap, and dance. Their latest project is the "Lvls to
This" EP.
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"MORE THAN A FRACTION FOUNDATION"
(Baltimore MD) - The More Than
a Fraction Foundation (MTAFF) partnered three-day event 1872 Forward: A Celebration of Virginia Tech receives
the Anthem Award - a bronze medal in the Education, Art & Culture: Community Engagement category. The
1872 Forward event held by Virgnia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) was selected from 2,000 submissions
from 44 countries by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Science. The 1872 Forward: A Celebration of Virginia Tech
was held March 22-24, 2022 by the Council on Virginia Tech History in partnership with the MTAFF. The MTAFF sponsored this
three-day event with grants from Virginia Humanities and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
The 1872 Forward: A Celebration of Virginia Tech was in celebration
of its 150-year history. The More Than a Fraction Foundation is affiliated with the descendants of Africans enslaved on the
Smithfield and Solitude plantations, which is now the grounds of Virginia Tech and Virginia State University.
The three-day event centered on Native/Indigenous communities and the
enslaved Africans who once lived on the grounds now known as Virginia Tech. It also centered around the descendants of the
European Americans who once owned the land, as well as the experiences of the students, faculty, staff, and alumni who made
Virginia Tech what it is today. Today, Virginia Tech, formerly Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, is a research
university located in Blacksburg. It was founded in 1872 as the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. It has an 86%
graduation rate and 56% acceptance rate.
The Council
on Virginia Tech History is continuing to provide programs to the Virginia Tech community and on March 28, 2024 it will host
1872 Forward: How Our History Can Shape Our Future in Brush Mountain A. Squires Student Center at 1:30pm. The moderated forum
will discuss how universities, such as Virginia Tech, can utilize and integrate their history into managing their plans for
the future.
Dr. Kerri Moseley-Hobbs, founder of
the More Than a Fraction Foundation will moderate the forum. The Foundation plans to continue its work with Virginia Tech
with the understanding that progress moving forward will seem slow, but the magnitude of the accomplishments is the "brilliance
of life" happening.
During research into her
ancestors Dr. Moseley-Hobbs discovered that her ancestors were enslaved on the grounds once owned by the Preston family, grounds
now known as Virginia Tech (Smithfield and Solitude plantations). She went on to publish a creative non-fiction account of
the data discovered in a book titled "More Than a Fraction: Based on a True Story" (Amazon Books, Barns & Noble
and Audible). Soon after her discovered, in 2015, Dr. Moseley-Hobbs joined the Board of Directors of the Smithfield-Preston
Foundation a foundation which oversee the grounds of Historical Smithfield. Soon after joining the Board, she began helping
the Smithfield-Preston foundation and Virginia Tech highlight the lives of the enslaved Africans and the displaced Indigenous
peoples of that area.
The More Than a Fraction Foundation's
goal in sponsoring the Virginia Tech event was to highlight the estimated 300-year-old Merry Tree which was the center point
for the enslaved community to meet, worship, marry, and more for over three generations. The MTAFF's mission is to highlight
the often-overlooked history, culture, and experiences of Africans in America and African Americans before and after the Civil
War. Its vision is to explore American history from an angle that centers on the narratives and contributions of Africans
and African Americans, offering a comprehensive understanding that includes the modern-day repercussions of their historical
experiences.