The Beat - interview with singer Carlos Santana - Brief Article - Interview

Whole Earth, Summer, 2000 by Pw

THE BEAT CC Smith, ed. $20/year (six issues). Bongo Productions, PO Box 65856, Los Angeles, CA 90065. GETTHEBEAT @aol.com.

The "reason I love this magazine so much--we are conscious of accentuating all the colors--it's not about black or white or grey, it's about a rainbow. The music of this magazine is the music of the future--the world music."

--Carlos Santana

Its major focus is reggae, but it's also the only grand assemblage of everything derived and innovated from polyrhythmic beat (salsa, African, Arabian, Brazilian, gospel, Caribbean).

--PW

Steve Heilig is a contributor to The Beat, where this interview first appeared. Steve is also a local, now living in the town where I was an elected official. He's a freelance musical psychonaut, director of Public Health and Education of the San Francisco Medical Society and director of the Bay Area Network of Ethics Committees. He is also the coeditor of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.

--PW