Santana said of documentary, ‘This Carlos guy, he’s all right’
The documentary “Car- los” is under development. The feature-length project is all about Carlos Santana.
The rock legend has seen the film. A song sprung to mind. But not one of his own.
“When I first saw it, I started singing that Ringo (Starr) song, ‘Theeeey’re gonna put me in the movies,’ ” Santana sang, taking from the Beatles’ cover of Buck Owens’ “Act Naturally.” “… All I have to do is be natural. So I told myself, ‘Whatever you do, don’t cry in your own movie, man.’ ”
The “Carlos” doc premieres June 17 at a Tribeca Film Festival event at Beacon Theatre in New York. The project is backed by rock stars of the film industry, Sony Pictures Classics and Emmy-winning director Rudy Valdez (“The Sentence,” “We Are: The Brooklyn Saints”).
The film charts Santana’s rise as a teenage guitar virtuoso playing on the streets of the Bay Area, through his breakthrough Woodstock performance to his rise as a 10-time Grammy winner.
A release date for the docu- mentary has not yet been set.
The Las Vegas resident headliner, and also resident, conveys a spiritual, world view that has been inherent his entire life. His House of Blues set list has been propelled by long jams that knit his greatest Santana said, interlocking his hits (“Black Magic Woman,” hands. “There are not many “Soul Sacrifice” “Oye Como bands that can do that.” Va” and “Smooth” in the mix) Santana is planning to jam along with some unexpected at the “Carlos” premiere next covers. Nigerian artist Baba- month. The film gives the tunde Olatuni’s “Jin-go-lo-ba” 75-year-old superstar the shares a show with “Venus,” rare opportunity to view his adapted from Shocking Blue life from the outside. in 1969 (and Bananarama in “I look at it from the the 1980s). third-person, and I go, ‘You
The frontman, fans and know what? Looking at this band are on the same trip movie, this Carlos guy, he’s at a Santana show. all right, man,’ ” Santana
“Ever since I was a child, said, grinning. “There’s a I have had a pursuance to reason why my mom and center stage, the epicenter, dad are proud of me, where bringing together Irish, Japthey are, and even when anese, Apaches, Africans,” they were here.”