# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cindy-blackman
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:09:08.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cindy-blackman"
name: "Cindy Blackman"
slug: "cindy-blackman"
description: "Cindy Blackman, known as Cindy Blackman Santana since she married guitarist Carlos Santana in 2010, is an American jazz and rock drummer performing since the 80s. Blackman has recorded several jazz albums as a bandleader and has performed with Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Simmons, Ron Carter, Sam Rivers, Cassandra Wilson, Angela Bofill, Buckethead, Bill Laswell, Lenny Kravitz, Joe Henderson, Joss Stone and Carlos Santana."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cindy_Blackman_brighter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1959-11-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.73
  momentum:             17.88222311396469
  historical:           17.59121866666667
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/drumstress"
    handle:    "drumstress"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/cindyblackmansantana/"
    handle:    "cindyblackmansantana"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/CindyBlackmanDrummer"
    handle:    "CindyBlackmanDrummer"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1822729/"
    handle:    "nm1822729"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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    handle:    "0sJ3AmpElEzlg5WjOHQYBF"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cindyblackman.com/"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "سيندي بلاكمان سانتانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cindy Blackman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cindy Blackman Santana"
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    title: "Cindy Blackman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Blackman"
    title: "Cindy Blackman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cindy Blackman Santana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Blackman"
    title: "Cindy Blackman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Blackman"
    title: "Cindy Blackman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cindy Blackman Santana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Blackman_Santana"
    title: "Cindy Blackman Santana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Blackman"
    title: "Cindy Blackman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%A0%EB%94%94_%EB%B8%94%EB%9E%99%EB%A7%A8"
    title: "신디 블랙맨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cindy Blackman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cindy Blackman Santana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Blackman"
    title: "Cindy Blackman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Блэкман, Синди"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/64c02ec0-1101-4099-a019-7a05a33f9351"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q447642"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Cindy Blackman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump