Agassi, Santana and Angels

Not So Surprising: Carlos Santana toured Andre Agassi’s charter school with the tennis great today and was moved by the “incredibly heavenly sanctuary” he saw. “I had an idea, but not like this,” Santana told reporters.
Even Less Surprising: Santana was able to wax cosmic about it: Agassi, he said, is “surrounded, literally, by angels of light who care deeply for humans.”
In fact, he did so with his eyes closed for a spell. “I love closing my eyes and feeling like I’m seven years old,” he explained.
More Surprising: Santana proposed that a 24-hour TV channel be devoted to the goings on inside the Andre Agassi College Preperatory Academy and its 624 students, on a campus near the intersection of West Lake Mead and Martin Luther King Boulevards.
“They can have all the other channels doing the same killing and brutalilty.  But we need one ... to show the elegance, excellence, grace, dignity, the power of innocence in children of all ages.”
Still More Surprising: Santana said he  read Agassi’s autobiography “Open” and it hit home, especially the parts about Agassi’s obsessed taskmaster father.
According to a 1997 obituary  in Rolling Stone, Santana’s father Jose was a violinist who performed with both orchestras and mariachi bands. “Reading his book was very therapeutic for me because we both had the same kind of father,” Santana said. “But I’m actually grateful, because my father stayed on me and he showed me the value of music.”
Biggest Surprise of All: Santana, synonymous with San Francisco and its legendary psychedelic rock scene, says “I love the opportunity to come to Las Vegas and I believe I want to buy a house over here.”
Those who attend “Supernatural Santana” at the Hard Rock Hotel through Feb. 21 will be given the chance to donate $5 to Agassi’s foundation by texting the word “KIDS” to 20222.