>> i appreciate you. thank you so much. it really is an honor to have you here "comunidad del valle" the producer of the "restoration" album marsha. stay with us. hello and welcome to "comunidad del valle." i'm damian trujillo. today we're honoring a legend. the legendary jorge santana on your "comunidad del valle." we're living in uncertain times, >> nbc bay area presents "comunidad del valle," with but as californians we'll get through this together. damian trujillo. >> and we begin thisabous if your income has been reduced show with the children of jorge or you've lost your job or your health insurance, covered california is here. santana, anthony and michelle santana are my guests here opt we can help you find the health insurance show. folks, you don't know what an you need to protect you and your loved ones. honor it is to have you here on "comunidad del valle" today. and, you may even get financial help to pay >> thanks for having us. >> yes, thank you. >> thank you very much. for your health insurance. michelle, let me start with you. so, if you or someone you know is without coverage, tell us about your dad.i mean, t visit coveredca.com to learn more or enroll today. five or six times through our

mutual friend abel sanchez. every time was just a spiritual experience with your dad. >> yeah. i don't know what i can really say other than he was just amazing. i'm getting a little emotional. he was just always kind and gentle and always trying to help people all the time and i know for me personally he was my best fr time together. we had lunch probably three times a week and sunday dinners together, every sunday. with family. he was an impeccable amazing wonderful human being. and it's so sad that he's not here with us because the world needs more people like him here. he just touched everybody. everybody there's not one negative

comment, bad thing that has ever been said about my father. everybody loved him and respected him. whether it was just him as a normal person or whether it was in music. he was always so highly regarded. loved and respected by so many people. i really look up to him and hope one day i can be just like him and joining us now here on "comunidad del valle" is the and be respected like he was. producer of this great album, >> that's beautifully spoken. marcia miget here on "comunidad anthony, what was it like growing up as a kid being able del valle."you. to tell that your classmates on the playground, hey, my dad's a pleasure. >> it's such an honor to have rock and roller, he plays the you on as well. previous segments.s on in the guitar, he plays in a big band? but tell us what it was like to >> yeah, it was a unique experience. like growing up backstage, work with a guy as talented as growing up around amplifiers, jorge santana. music. almost to the point where it was >> well, jorge had a really kind just normal. i don't know if that makes sense. but it wasn't like -- just heart and he had a vision about growing up literally our first this music, and i wase to house at walnut creek my dad had help him to follow through with

a whole studio in our basement the vision that he had that had and there was just constant music all around us. began 30 years ago with this and i know my friends when they were always over they'd hear him project called "raifthsestorati" play and everything. for me it was normal. i think it was more exciting for other people. and "restoration" is the >> maybe even around the culmination of several songs he campfire was there a point, michelle, where you said dad, began to write when he was a young father and a husband and a put guitar down, do something else? >> yes. he was always playing guitar. creative musician. and we took those song ideas and every timed go visit him he we recreated them. always had a guitar in his hands playing it. even when we'd go camping he and it was his dream to do this. so we're so happy we got it always made sure he brought his akuftic and electric guitar just done. >> it's beautiful. i think i've listened -- i to always play and and mentioned i've listened to it about three times on the deck. even show other kids at camp oh, you want to play guitar? a couple of songs that -- i mean, they all do. here's a guitar. but a couple of songs that stand show them a fewe. out, one is "america." tell us about the song yeah. it was a lot of fun. "america." >> all right. you know, we did this song two >> what was his preference, acoustic or electric or whatever years ago, and now it seems so was available at that time? >> his preference was definitely timely. but "america" started when jorge electric. but he did like acoustic at camp brought me his unusual version because you can't really bring an amplifier at a campground. of "star-spangled banner." so yeah, he would play acoustic

and we had conversations about whenever we would travel. but definitely electric for sure. he had amplifiers in his place and he had them all hooked up tapestry of sounds that depicted with pedals and -- yeah. so yeah, definitely electric. the complex experiences of >> i know that anthony, we were living in america. i used synthesizer completely, a planning on having your dad and abel sanchez on this show to chord synthesizer, and it starts with a very ethereal choir and promote this -- his latest album. >> yeah. it uses all kinds of sounds like >> and now you're doing that for him. and i know that a lot of-u it jets, ocean waves, machines, still feels like a punch in the children laughing, horses running, dogs barking. stomach. his loss. talk about how the family over and it's all sort of a tapestry the last couple of weeks, a few weeks, have kind of dealt with of what we both felt america was this and trying to move day by da unexpected. li like. >> we'll talk about jorge personally now. just meet him several times, just seems like a warm, quiet, but the family is definitely gentle giant. moving forward. i think everyone's gotten a lot how is he in the recording closer. obviously, it's a difficult time studio? >> he was very quiet and a

with covid for someone to pass. little nervous because he has but we got through it together. such high expectations. but he always had faith and he but it is nice that he did leave was really very easy his music behind. you know, there's a part of that with. one of the reasons i think it that feels good. worked so well was because jorge even with this of and i were able to be honest with each other about what we it, when you restore something liked and what we didn't like, you go back to your old self, or and that's very important in a musical relationship. and we were very pleased with an item you restore and you make it like it was born again in a the outcome. way. even with this cd there's a lot >> and the -- when he came out of tracks that it's almost -- i with this album, he was going to don't want to say eerie but it's be on this show and promote it almost like it was left behind for everybody and left behind to as well just like you all are doing today. i mentioned to his kids it the family. >> no, it's beautiful. was -- it felt like a stomach we've listened to it on the punch. are you still numb by not having deck, sipping a glass of wine. jorge around? and it really is soothing. >> i still can't believe that we're going to have the album he's not here. he only lived a few blocks away producer on the show in our next from me. couple of segments. so i pass his house and i go, but he really did leave a special thing behind for all of oh, i wish he was still around. us. i do miss him. this is probably something, but his spirit is still alive in michelle, that, i mean, we'll the music.

cherish but especially you the and this is one way that we can family of jorge. all experience him. he sings on the album. >> yeah. it's beautiful. so we get to hear his voice. my dad was so proud of it. we get to hear his gorgeous every time he produced a song guitar playing. with marsha he would pick me up in his car and we'd drive around so his spirit lives on. >> we can hear the guitar. for like an hour and he would the best for me was "always just start playing every song, like what do you think of this? more." what do you think of that? and that song just -- that's it was definitely something he's classic about very, very proud of. the title. it comes from a deep place in "always more" kind of meant -- his heart. we're glad that it's here. jorge had a real grateful >> all right. approach to life, and he -- and we're speaking with the children of jorge santana, legendary rock and roller, latin rock "always more" kind of meant to us that there's always more for us o'discover inside ourselves. guitarist. we'll be back more. we'll continue here on "comunidad del valle." stay with us. always more to love, always more to forgive, always more to have strength, to have peace. ♪ he was a hopeful person, a in h. >> all right. we're talking with marcia miget, producer of jorge santana's new release. it's called "restoration." we'll be back after these messages and talk more with marcia. stay with us.

back here on "comunidad del valle" with the children of jorge santana. did he leave any musical ith you, anthony? have you picked up the guitar

here and there? we're back with marcia or maybe the -- >> unfortunately, i didn't. miget, the producer of jorge santana's new release i have a lot of guitars now. "restoration" that just came out. but yeah, i did not pick up the anything else that people should know about the album? music gene. what should be their takeaway, that's okay. marcia? >> well, again, this was jorge's i mean, that was one thing that was special about him. it wasn't pushed on us, the dream, you know, to take these t reason have them come to music. it was whatever we want to that we call it "restoration," explore and do on our own. so i do appreciate that, that i is because these were songs he wanted to have restored, didn't get put into mandatory rewritten and redone. music classes. he let me find my own way. >> quick story about michelle, and he waited a long time to there was a -- my wife, her dad have that manifest. is the past commander of the and through our partnership we american legion post here in san were able to do that and it was jose, and she wanted to have a fund-raiser for scholarships for actually manifested. students and invited abel finished and manifested a week before he passed away. sanchez to come on and perform so i'm really grateful that i was part of being able to help for the crowd. and when abel showed up on that that dream for him because he day he said i have a surprise for you, jorge's coming. was very happy with the project. it was just -- everybody in ourd >> i found it on spotify but

also on the santana site you he was going to be playing for veterans and their efforts to can -- >> you can access it on carlos appreciate children and santana's store and on most scholarships. at the end i wanted to give streaming services you can find jorge something. you drove all the way down to it. >> okay. san jose, jorge, let me gr some. so you work with carlos as well. talk about having the honor and he says -- he waved me off h working with such a titanic for the children. it's probably not surprising for family like the santanas. you to hear. >> no. not at all. >> oh, well, carlos is definitely not at all. wonderful. he would go to different camps i first met carlos because i and help teach music and speak began teaching his children when to kids all the time about their salvador was 4 years old, he began music lessons with me and stayed with me until he went off aspirations being in the music industry and would actually provide them his personal number to college. and say just reach out to me if and the two, stella and you have any questions, you angelica, also studied music know. im when so i'm not surprised at all. he loved kids. carlos would invite me on stage to play with the band, and that was wonderful. he loved teaching. he loved being a mentor. he's just an amazing person. and he was to so many. i always enjoyed sharing and not surprised at all by that story. >> and anthony, what's it like trading cds and music. to carry that legacy maybe not and i just think not only is he

as a musician from your dad but as a great human being that he a fabulous musician but he is a was? >> yeah. spokesman for lots of us. it's just about those little >> for humanity. for humanity itself, it seems. acts of kindness. >> he really is. even when people aren't looking. he has such high aspirations and a story that comes to mind is he i think it's the combination of being a musician and such a worked in elevators as well and wonderful speaker that makes him so remarkable. would service them. he'd go around the bay area, >> i was telling his kids earlier that it was awesome oakland, san francisco servicing always to see carlos on stage, ? elevato elevators. and he would carry a big bag of dog food in case he saw homeless dogs to feed them. and it seemed like carlos gave him all the space he needed to and he wouldn't tell anybody but us. showcase the great talent jorge it wasn't trying to get recognition or anything like had. >> that is true. but you know, they had very that. it was just something that made him feel good. different personalities. there's so many little stories and jorge was happy to be a like that about my father that you take a step back and it's he naturally was happy to be a soloist too, but a lot of times like you wonder what can i do? the two interacted when carlos a little thing can have a big impact on people. was a soloist jorge was very that's something i can take away. >> was there a joy when he would willing to be the accompanyist. hit the stage with his old and in the same way when jorge

friends, the richard the like? soloed carlos was accompanying >> yeah. him. it just showed the love that they have for each other. >> that's great. it was always weird for me to see him on stage. i want to leave you -- i've asked all the questions. even though i was used to it. marcia, share your personal thoughts, anything you want to because behind the scenes he was add that i haven't asked. >> well, i just want to say in so - reserved. he was very -- how can this guy general that having known jorge be on stage and then jump in the for the time that i knew him, front and solo on the guitar and then, you know, he can leave and experiencing his music was like he's so mellow. experiencing his spirit. completely different that is very unspoken. personalities. so fun to watch him get out but the feeling of the music when you listen to it comes through very strong. and i think that's the most there. >> what do you want us to know, important thing about this michelle, those that don't know him the way close family and project. and he said it himself. friends did? what would you like us to keep there's a little piece of heaven in mind to stay with maybe to in this music. >> oh, how true is that. carry on in the name of your well, it's called "restoration." and it's right here. dad? and there's an awesome picture >> my dad was always such a of classic jorge on the back giving person. cover. thank you so much, marcia. i want to hold on to that. we're so blessed that you were and i hope they too give back. able to willing to be on the he really gave a lot to his show and talk about jorge. family and his community. and please tell carlos that he's

more than welcome anytime as he devoted so much to yo him as well. >> oh, i will. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> have a good day. >> thank you. you too. we're going to give you a little being an amazing guitarist but taste of jorge santana. thank you again also just being a wonderful ♪ kind, gentle person that just loves life and just wanted to live and be here and share his music and his kindness with the world. he did that while he was here. and i want people to remember ♪ that. and i want them to hold on to he always used to say, you guaranteed to anyone. you should make everything count, find a lot of invoice in your day. that's my hope. >> that's beautiful. how about you, anthony? >> yeah. i echo everything michelle said,

i mean, for me i'm a new dad. i have an 18-month-year-old, 19-month-year-old little frankie, and it's just trying to be a patient loving dad like my dad was is something that i want to continue with his legacy. >> both of you if you don't mind, talk about that relationship with his brother. because when we saw carlos on stage, you know, everybody thought he's a god. but then at the same time when your dad joined him on stage, oh, my god, jorge's on stage. the place went crazy asge was always a fun thing for the family. and the relationship between them, they would get really deep and spiritual together. obviously, music was a big part of their conversation, but i think spirituality also on top of it. besides that they just loved getting dinner together and

eating. like food was a big part too. north beach restaurant they'd go to a lot. ou say it was the final word. any final thoughts. michelle, we'll start with you. >> first of all, i just want to thank you for having us on here and kind of talking not only about my dad but also about his wonderful new cd, "restoration." i hope people love it as much i just hope that everybody just remembers him and the gifts that he brought to this world. hold him in your heart. >> this is the album right here. we're going to talk with the producer in our next two segments. anthony, your final thoughts. >> yeah, again, thanks for having us. it always feels good to talk about who he is beyond music. so thank you for the questions today. i think for everybody that was a jorge santana fan i think

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