Carlos Satana has recently worked with Imagine Documentaries to tell the story of his life and career through a documentary called ‘Carlos’ which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Festival. The singer told UCR how he wanted to tell his story by saying:
“I didn’t want it to be this poor little thing and another victim mentality and this predictable, pathetic human being who people can hardly wait for him to die so he doesn’t suffer anymore. I think we have enough of that.”
The singer had previously revealed that he was abused as a child for two years in a 2000 interview with Rolling Stone. When Santana recently told People that he forgave his childhood abuser, it made headlines. The singer shared how he healed himself and how he made peace with his situation by saying:
“There’s this saying, ‘Hurt people hurt people.’ It’s my pain. It did happen to me. But if you open your hands, and you let it go, then you don’t feel that anymore.”
So when it came to making ‘Carlos,’ the singer shared with UCR that he wanted it to be far from the ‘victim’ mentality. Instead, he wanted to share what he learned by practicing letting go and his different life lessons by saying:
“[I wanted ‘Carlos’] to be the opposite – triumph, glory, and victory to God. I want this to be about all the ingredients, components, and elements and especially the discipline, the education my mother instilled in my head and my heart so I wouldn’t disappoint myself, my family, or the people.”
You can read Carlos Santana’s interview with UCR here.
