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| Released | June 7, 2019 | |||
| Recorded | 2019 | |||
| Studio | Shangri-La (Malibu, California) | |||
| Genre | Latin rock | |||
| Length | 64:25 | |||
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| Producer | Rick Rubin | |||
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Africa Speaks is the twenty-fifth studio album by American rock band Santana, released on June 7, 2019, by Concord Records and Suretone Records.
The album was produced during a 10-day recording session by Rick Rubin at Rubin's Shangri-La recording studio in Malibu, during which they recorded 49 songs.[1] Rubin and Carlos Santana used an eight-piece band (which included Santana's wife, Cindy Blackman Santana, on drums).[2]
The first single from the album, "Breaking Down the Door", was released on April 19, 2019. In January 2019, Santana released the EP In Search of Mona Lisa, which served as a preamble to the LP. The album debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200.
- ^ Grow, Kory (January 15, 2019). "Carlos Santana on the Power of 'The Mona Lisa', Today's New Hippies". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
- ^ "Santana Announces New Rick Rubin-Produced Album 'Africa Speaks' & Shares Single". JamBase. March 18, 2019. Retrieved April 6, 2019.