...and how is Prince seen by the public in those countries?

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Well, my family is from the Dominican Republic and I will tell you that before I became a fan, they did not know who he was. I'm going to say it depends on how Americanized the country is.

parishilton said:

It's ¿qué?

jess555ja said:

Me llamo Smedley, y soy funky

did that come out right?

LittleSmedley said:

LittleSmedley said:

Hola Smedley. Me llamo Jessica. ¡Puedo ver que usted es muy funky!

LittleSmedley said:

Yes!

jess555ja said:

FANTASTICO!



Soy muy guapo, no?

I have a friend going to school in Guadalajera, Mexico. Since he has been down there, he has not heard Prince one time. Besides American rap, he really doesn't hear too much American music period.

LittleSmedley said:

Sí, es guapísimo

Unfortunately, he is not very well known and/or properly respected in most Latin American and South American countries. This may have 2 do with whatever promotion did or didn't happen there, and/or his tour history in Central/South America.

I have had close friends from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Brasil, Uruguay, Panama, etc, and it seemed like hardly any of them had any idea of Prince's talents, even.

I have always been somewhat surprised at this, but not when considering basic factors, such as WB promotion and tour history.

Giovanni777 said:

I agree. There is not that much promotion going on in Latin America. Also, these countries are not exposed to all the genres that we know. For example,in DR, it is all about merengue, merengue tipico, bachata, salsa, boleros, and that's about it.Someone like Prince is not going to easily accepted because he is so different from what they are accustomed to.

1.57 metros

spaceboy said:

When I was living in Spain I met two people who were crazy about Prince, one of them owned a little music shop and he was 'always' pumping out Prince and had loads of bootlegs. I guess he was as popular there as he would be in Britain.

Smillan said:

Yeah, well Spain is one country in Europe, where his promotion and touring history have been more prominent.

The thread title says "the Spanish speaking world", which is about as general as it gets.

So U must look at Spain as being about 2% of the "spanish speaking world".

jess555ja said:

cute ..

Andorra
- Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- U.S.A.
- Ecuador & Galapagos
- El Salvador
- España
- Guatemala
- México
- Paraguay
- Perú
- Puerto Rico
- Rep. de Honduras
- Rep. de Nicaragua
- Rep. de Panamá
- Rep. Dominicana
- Uruguay
- Venezuela

that is pretty general, why not the English speaking world? Probably less

every where i say!

I have some coworkers from Colombia, and they really only know him from his eighties stuff (i.e. PR). However, I was told that Te Amo Corazon was played on some of the stations in Colombia. I checked the Colombian singles chart and found that TAC peaked in the mid 50’s on the top 100 chart. It was on the chart for about 12 weeks over the summer and early fall.

jess555ja said:

Hola Smedley y Jessica! Yo me llamo Tamara Angelica y creo que soy muy funky tambien! Pero tengo una pregunta, donde esta la zapateria??? (Okay that's a line from Pulp Fiction, but still. . . ) Viva Panama!

SCNDLS said:

Es de Panama? ¡Que chevere!

jess555ja said:

Claro que si! Eso es porque tengo my bandera aqui con mi (como se dice screen name en Espanol???? )

SCNDLS said:

Me olvidé que esa es la bandera. Yo soy Dominicana

jess555ja said:

Hola, chica! Donde esta mi tilde?
[Edited 5/22/07 19:14pm]

Yo pase mi adolecencia en Puerto Rico en la decada de los ochentas. Prince era algo popular en las isla. En la area metropolitana habia una emisora de radio (95X) que tocaba solo musica en ingles como los primeros cuarenta de Billboard y otros exitos importados de Europa y canciones de las listas de baile Billboard. Recuerdo haber escuchado Little Red Corevette, 1999, Delirious. Let's Pretend We're Married, When Doves Cry, Let's Go Crazy, Purple Rain, I Would Die 4 U, Baby I'm A Star, Raspberry Beret, Pop Life, America, Kiss, Sign O The Times, U Got The Look, Alphabet Street y Batdance. Escuche Controversy depues que Purple Rain fue un exito. No puedo reportar de los años noventa porque me habia mudado para los Estados Unidos. Emisoras como Alfa Rock 106 y KQ105 tambien tocaban los exitos de Prince en Puerto Rico. Nasty Girl fue un exitazo en Puerto Rico.

Not many of the mexicans I know are familiar with Prince unless they grew up in the US in the 80's...someone mentioned the lack of promotion/touring in latin american countries and this was one of my worries since I was considering moving to Puerto Rico this year...especially since living in the San Francisco bay area I am so spoiled by P (such as the Orpheum show I just saw )....I don't think I could handle living in PR without my Prince fam and no Prince shows

Not sure how accurate this is, but my Gran taught me this, not sure what it means though.

Yo tomar lo enel extremo agujero.
Yo amor cremoso bondad (?) is that good??