11 time Grammy winner, Tony Lindsay

2020-12-19

I talk with 11 time grammy award winner Tony Lindsay, a amazing vocalist and longest-tenured lead singer of Santana. He first joined the band 1991 and performed with Santana from 1995 to 2015, the group's period of greatest commercial success, during which it released the album Supernatural (1999) and won 11 Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Rock Album.[1][2][3] He's worked with Santana, Spang-a-Lang, Narada Michael Walden, Aretha Franklin, Angela Bofill, O'Jays,artists such as Tevin Campbell, O'Jays, Al Jarreau, Steve Winwood, Johnny Gill,...

He's worked with Santana, Spang-a-Lang, Narada Michael Walden, Aretha Franklin, Angela Bofill, O'Jays,artists such as Tevin Campbell, O'Jays, Al Jarreau, Steve Winwood, Johnny Gill, Teddy Pendergrass, Aretha Franklin and Lou Rawls.

Lindsay's first album with Santana was 1992's Milagro (1992) the first Santana studio album that failed to reach Billboard's top 100.[5] Lindsay sang on the tracks "Life Is for Living" and "Make Somebody Happy".

Lindsay was Santana’s principal vocalist during the release of Supernatural (1999), one of the best selling recordings of all time, with more than 30 million copies sold worldwide, including 15 million copies in the United States. He is credited on five of the album’s tracks: "(Da Le) Yaleo", "Migra", "Primavera", "The Calling" and "Africa Bamba".He performed continuously with the band through 2015.

Since leaving Santana, Lindsay has maintained an active schedule of dates at Bay Area clubs, international performances and releases of recorded original material

“Tony Lindsay is one of the world’s great singers,” Grammy-winning producer Narada Michael Walden has been quoted as saying. “We know and we revere Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles. Tony Lindsay is on par with all three of those.”

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