From 1997 to 2000 he toured and recorded with Santana and played on his mega hit single \"Smooth.\" Currently, Rodney is pursuing new goals pertaining to his own music and is planning the release of his solo debut later this year.

\"During the last 15 years working in the drum industry, I have seen almost every drummer there is,\"

explains Meinl\'s international artist relations manager Norbert Saemann.

\"But almost no one else left me completely amazed the way Rodney did and I asked myself, what it was in his playing that I found so captivating and startling? Later on I found an excellent article written by jazz historian and drummer, Hal Miller, which articulates exactly what I felt about Rodney\'s playing. Hal said: \"I believe that it was his sheer sense of confidence and his utter ease, which caused me to marvel so. He played as if he knew without the slightest doubt that what he was playing and how he was playing were absolutely right and, as a matter of fact, the only way to do it.\"

Rodney plays Meinl Byzance Series cymbals exclusively.