I havent followed Prince very closely the last years, but recently i saw a few live videos from the musicology tour with an asian looking girl playing keyboards, and performing some background vocals (she has quite a nice voice).

Can anyone tell me whats her name, and if theres is any more information about her on the net?

R U thinking of Renato Neto?

Pellwormer said:

Dont ask y I laughed

DanceWme said:

I surely won't ask...


.....hmpfffft!

Haha, no, she is really a 'she', not Renato in drag, or something.

There is also a very big, fat guy playing keyboards during these performances, if i am right thats Chance Howard, but i haver never heard of her name.

her name is RAD and she "helped out" with Prince's mini-tour in Hong Kong, Australia and Hawaii in late 2003 (!!! three years ago !!!) and was in some of the Musicolgy warm-up gigs in San Fran and Vegas (??) and Los Angeles and some of the public/TV performances leading into early-mid March 2004 before the tour started.

She is from San Fran. She goes by R.A.D. and those are her initials. Her original name is Rose Ann Dimalanta.

Check out some music --

Enjoy ...

Thanks a2grafix for the information and links on her.

She really sounds like a jazz-fusion cat, the kind of music i like to enjoy more in a live setting anyway, but she sure sounds musically gifted.

i really liked her presence...to bad she didn't stick around.

they never seem to

looks like she has new album coming out!!

http://www.myspace.com/radkeys