{{{... via his own support Internet NPG. The figures of sale of his albums are obviously disappointing compared with those of the Eighties, which does not prevent him from underlining proudly that he earns more money on the modest sales of " Rainbow chidren " than on the twelve million Purple Rain specimens run out by Warner Bros. }}}

Sat opposite me in a room with filtered lights, he seems more portoricain that black; his skin beige is gilded, his ebony hair separated by a line in the medium covers his ears and neck.

He has the wides eyes of hind and a mouth of a cartoon character underlined of a small moustache. I probably exceed him about thirty centimeters, therefore he manages to look me from the top: the armchair throne which he sit in, is especially designed for this purpose, and he carries heels of at least twelve centimeters.

He is dressed in the purest Prince style : girds of a green emerald bolero ,he looks like a psychedelik dwarf who would have spent time too much to the sun. He also raises, in a rather theatrical way, a cane out of wooden posed under the chin , which he cherishes sometimes to underline the wisdom of his remarks. I had not imagined to discover interlocutor also stimulant and eloquent. Once launched, Prince speaks as if he was on stage , rolling of the eyes, changing voice and by multiplying the gestures. He remains also an enthusiastic excessively pious person ready to convert allof us in the moment;

It is besides one of the great ironies of the Eighties: during this decade, everyone has one day imagined what experiment would be to come personally into contact with magic Michael Jackson or the suave Prince, without realizing that reality would undoubtedly be connected more to invite for the tea the guy which fills your letter-box with lampoons to the glory of the Lord.
According to Prince, the human being crawls in the darkness or bathes in the light, and if he has the impression which you belong to the first category, he wants nothing to have to do with you, even if you are a member of his family.

He detests drug and alcohol, and speaks about people who did not accept yet God in their life like disabled person. his religious enthusiasm did nothing but grow with the arrival of the new millenium. Guided by Larry Graham, the ex-bass player of Sly and the Family Stone, with whom he started to work five years earlier.

He decided to never again play in concert his old songs like Jack U Of or Sexy Mother...

And, while at the end of last century, he socialized with Donatella Versace and Prince Albert of Monaco, he obviously prefers from now on the company of his friends jéhovah witnesses.

He is still living in Minneapolis, one of the reasons for the failure of his marriage in the Eighties with the dancer Mayté Garcia (she preferred Spain).
He and his ex-wife had a son in 1997, but the baby died one month later without leaving the hospital. This thought in my mind, I ask him whether he already doubt in God whom he does not cease to mention in his songs. his answer is immediate : "Never".
"I always knew that there was God. Since the age of 5 , I know that he exists".

When the couple appeared in the cover of Vogue in 1999, he already did not exist any more. Mayté currently lives with Tommy Lee, the ex of Pamela Anderson, in California. Prince, on his side, was photographed in October in Paris, a brown beauty by his sides. He declare on several occasions during the interview:
"the Audience is my wife now". And what about the marriage learned him about love: " I know today that on one side, there is the love and on the other, confidence. And if one loves somebody without confidence, it is Over."

Five years earlier, in a TV interview, he told Oprah Winfrey that therapy had revealed to him that he had created for himself an alternative personality at the age of 5.

There many people detected in this words the official consent of a schizophrenia, accredited by the pseudonymic mania.

With the recall of this declaration, he appears slightly offended:
" Here is how the language imprisons us. I do not believe in schizophrenia. Prince and me are the same person. It is not as if I had all these various personalities to control. I never tried to reinvent me like David Bowie who, one year on the other, was Ziggy Stardust or Aladdin Sane. I am not different from Mohammed Ali. Was he schizophrenic because he had decided to be called Cassius Clay? Certainly not. I would like to see you asking Ali if he is schizophrenic. He would probably send to you to ground, more quickly than Joe Bugner".

He is right, of course. Always with multiple facets, highly talented, planted with determination on the the least attended ways of arts and business.

Prince: not curved, only special.

Note that in the original version of this article (in french), "The Rainbow Children" album is called "The Rainbow People" (in english)!

D.

purplegirl said:

He's married, to the audience!

Ah good nice to see someone translated this one

not curved, only special...

thanks for the translation purplegirl

"He seems more Puerto Rican than Black".

That is one of the dumbest statements I have read in a long time! What the h*ll does that mean?!!
No offense to the person who translated the article just to the one that wrote it!!!
[This message was edited Tue Mar 25 13:40:26 PST 2003 by CocoSweet]

married Mayte in the eighties?? I don't think so. Where did this writer get their facts from?

SEXUALCHOCOLATE said:

gosh, yeah, this guy is such an idiot! I mean EVERYBODY knows he was wed in the 90's to Mayte, not the 80's. I mean, how does such a retard even know how to spell but doesn't know this vital bit of information. IRRESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM! Gosh, I just hate the media!

dumbass said:

That's what I was going to say!
And, "psychodelic dwarf"