Nr. 16 – Cindy Blackman

The first time I saw the video for Lenny Kravitz’ Are You Gonna Go My Way I thought it was one of the coolest things I had ever seen on TV. I didn’t think twice of the fact that it was a woman playing the drums. Not that she was overshadowed and disappeared in all the coolness but rather that she belonged there. Cool woman playing the drums to a cool song in a cool video. That might have been what I was thinking subconsciously. I don’t know. But I DO know that her name is Cindy Blackman and has served as a drummer for Lenny Kravitz for several years. On YouTube you can find clips of Kravitz playing on MTV unplugged and Blackman totally sets the mood with her cool appearance and her big afro (and Kajsa-Stina, if you read this, there is something about her in that clip that reminds me of you. Don’t ask me why, she just does). She’s cool.