Who was playing with him in Paris?

sandrined said:

why don't you read one of the threads that talks about the show?

sandrined said:

CC & Josh Dunham (drums & bass), Morris Hayes (who smiled and pointed at me a lot, thanks Mr Hayes!) on keys. No Renato sadly but Cassandra O'Neil (is that her name?) on the other keys. She toured with Sheila E. not that long ago in the all-girl band. She didn't solo much tho', it seemed to me ?! Shelby on vox plus two women who I didn't recognise on back-up vox.

The back up singers were:
Shelby J
Liv Warfield
Elisa Fiorillo

They sounded amazing together

It was a great show! Prince's jacket was off the hook at the 10PM show. Still as great as ever.

livvylou said:

Thanks for those names!
Agree, off the hook!
And yes, he rocked that jacket.

I forgot to mention Frederic Yonnet (sp?), the harmonica player. First time I've seen him. he's really good. But whenever he's there Prince has to go "turn the harmonica up!" as it can't be heard. Same this time. Why does he always have to ask? If it can't be done he should know... If it can be done, why don't they just do it?!?
On that topic, he had to ask so many times - as always - to turn the lights of, "ALL the lights!" And then again, "Turn the lights off!!!" He always sounds so annoyed when he has to ask several times. Doesn't he travel with his own light crew?? If so, they should know by now! He always asks for this at some point. if not - why not?? And also, even if it IS a different light crew each show, surely someone can warn them that he will ask for this?!? It IS an unusual request to the lighting crew to turn it all off, I get that. But he always wants it sooner or later into the show... C'mon guys, get with it!

Elisa Fiorillo is back ??? From outer space ?

yankem said:

Yeah. She just walked in to find him here with that sad look upon his face.

He should have changed his stupid lock
He should have made her leave her key !

(http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2009/10/14/prince-j-aime-etre-le-premier-et-le-dernier-a-faire-quelque-chose_1253842_3246.html)


Lors de vos concerts au Grand Palais, vous avez repris une chanson des Jackson 5, "Shake Your Body to the Ground". C'était une forme d'hommage ?

Ma choriste Elisa Dease a le même timbre que Michael quand il était jeune. Et une bonne chanson reste une bonne chanson.

I'm happy that Elisa Fiorillo is back on the Prince scene. She disappeared for too long and with a talent like hers...she should be heard. She looks like she lost some weight too. Good for her. She seems like a nice person and that she deserves a break! Go ahead Prince!

When was she on the scene?

TedW said:

her album "i am" had a half dozen prince tracks on it, from 1990. she's also on graffiti bridge and in the movie, and also on diamonds and pearls album

the track i am was cowritten by prince and elisa, and johny lang did a cover of it

unique said:

Good cover by the way...