Carlos Santana will launch ‘I retire’, his first Norteña song, of the Mexican regional genre, next to the Border Group, in which he fuses the melancholy that characterizes this music with the style of his guitar and which, he said to Efe, “represents the spirit” of his “Mexican roots.”
The launch was scheduled for Wednesday, but was postponed until May 29, according to Efe sources from the artist’s team.
The theme marks the first Spanish recording of Santana from the ‘Heart’ album, of 2014, when he shared credits with artists such as Juanes, Gloria Estefan and Romeo Santos, but now, instead of surrounding himself with Latin pop figures, he chose to collaborate with one of the most successful young bands of the current Mexican regional.
“Grupo Frontera has a soul, it has a purpose, and that is what I am looking for. I do not play with anyone,” said Santana, 77.
His current approach to regional also represents an affirmation of his identity and a kind of “spiritual communion,” he said.
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The band sent him the subject, composed of Édgar Barrera, and moved it, so he decided to participate in him.
“I am Mexican, so everything I do is Mexican music. My father taught me the music of Agustín Lara. Water is water: you mix it with tamarind or pineapple, it is still water. I am Mexican, that is my spirit,” he said.
The song appears at a significant moment for Santana, because at the beginning of 2024 he suffered a fracture in the little finger of the left hand, which required surgery and forced him to cancel part of his residence in Las Vegas.
This April was hospitalized in San Antonio, Texas, for dehydration minutes before a concert.
“For 30 seconds I was afraid of not touching again, but with God there are no impossible. This finger takes stock, balance and trust. It was very good,” he said in reference to the fracture.
While the fainting attributed him to forgot to drink water.
“When I’m playing I forget to eat and drink and faint,” he said when talking about his recent health episode.
Despite the fact, he said that his return to the stage is guided by discipline and gratitude.
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“God sent me a woman (Cindy Blackman) who is like an Olympic athlete. It reminds me of eating, drinking water and caring for the temple that is my body,” he said.
Santana also expressed his desire to record an album focused on the indigenous music of Mexico, such as those of the Huicholes and the Tarahumaras, which he considers “the true root” of national culture.
“I come from many (musicians),” he said. “From Ritchie Valens, by Mongo Santamaría, from the Tabajas Indians. I represent them all, and this song is part of that legacy,” he concluded.
With EFE information
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