Hey guys i was just curious if u guys knew anything about Prince doing tours of South america or latin america. I'm half mexican and have meet a few other Mexicans who have no idea who Prince is. Yet when i was in Mexico i did stumble across a Prince bootleg Of Sign O' The Times the Dvd at a market.

Did any of Prince's albums do anything in latin america? how come we don't hear about him touring there ever? From your expirience in those countries is he popular there or do people know who he is? And has Prince ever played mexico? and ps i know he played rock in rio

This is a great place to search about Prince's tours etc

www.princevault.com

For my own info, as far as I know Prince only ever played the Rock in Rio festival in 91 like you said and that had a bit of an issue where Prince made the audience wait a number of hours before appearing on schedule, which led to them chanting "Gay boy!" or something of that nature, whilst he was playing.

There was talk of him playing a festival in South America about 2 years ago, but either it never materialised or he cancelled it pretty close to the date.

I always think it's a shame he's never done more there as I've only seen a snippet, but Madonna's Sticky & Sweet(?) tour has a DVD there and the audience are wild! Same for the early 80's Queen performances and Rush. I certainly think that Rock in Rio didn't help matters for this relationship, but I would love the idea of going to see him play down there to a giant stadium...

There's still time!

If you count Trinidad/Tobago as Latin America: no he's not very popular there. I spent a good while there and the only time I heard a Prince song was "I Wanna Be Your Lover" in a Chinese foodplace in Port Of Spain.

I have no info about it. There's a website in Spanish called El poblado de Prince, but I don't know how many Latin Americans are there.

A curious detail is that the Love Symbol album was published as a single record, with only 9 or 10 songs, and I think this edition is a Mexican one.

I wouldn't want to hurt anybody, but I think that in many Latin American countries there's a strong macho culture, and that certainly wouldn't help someone who has showed so much sexual ambiguity as Prince.

This happens, though to a much lesser extent, even in Spain, where someone like Bruce Springsteen, the macho prototype, has a very strong following, while Prince hasn't played here since 1999.

I lived in Rio for a bit back in the 90s and I remember him getting a bit of airplay on the radio there and MTV used to play stuff off Chaos & Disorder when it came out. There was one radio station that played Space quite a bit, which I doubt got much airplay anywhere else in the world. I think it was one of the mixes from the maxi single.

elephant said:

I lived in Rio for a bit back in the 90s and I remember him getting a bit of airplay on the radio there and MTV used to play stuff off Chaos & Disorder when it came out. There was one radio station that played Space quite a bit, which I doubt got much airplay anywhere else in the world. I think it was one of the mixes from the maxi single.

The 90s was definitely Prince's decade in Spain, he was quite successful, even playing in Madrid four times. It may also be the case in Latin America, though I suspect that he didn't get anywhere near his Spanish success in any Latin American country.

It could be interesting to study if Latin American's political instability could have influenced somehow Prince's airplay during the 80s. I'm talking without knowing, I don't know how the media were affected by authoritarian regimes there, I've just had this idea.

No. They call him a "maricon" down there. I've heard it means something unsavory.

SchlomoThaHomo said:

No. They call him a "maricon" down there. I've heard it means something unsavory.

Really? not many of my family knows about him down in mexico but any time i put on the music they seem to enjoy its sexiness. My aunte heard cream for the first time and didn't understand a word but looked like she was gonna melt lol. She also loved get on the boat very salsa ish.

riocoolnes said:

SchlomoThaHomo said:

No. They call him a "maricon" down there. I've heard it means something unsavory.

Really? not many of my family knows about him down in mexico but any time i put on the music they seem to enjoy its sexiness. My aunte heard cream for the first time and didn't understand a word but looked like she was gonna melt lol. She also loved get on the boat very salsa ish.

That's what a coworker told me. He could've been biased.

Think maricon does mean gay. We played five aside against some spanish lads and they kept calling me that, one of my mates who is from Peru told me after that that was what I was being called. Great bunch of lads!

mikeyaddict said:

Think maricon does mean gay. We played five aside against some spanish lads and they kept calling me that, one of my mates who is from Peru told me after that that was what I was being called. Great bunch of lads!

LOL mikey yes thats wat it means just it means the the worse way of saying gay.

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Of course Prince is popular in Latin America. He's known as Principe Rodriguez Negrin.

His most popular hits include :

Beso

Crema

La chica mas bella del mundo

Diamantes y perlas

Siete

Calle del abecedario

Quiero ser tu amante

Montañas

Llevame contigo

Hermana

Los brazos de Orion

My nombre es Principe

Cuando palomas lloran

Porque me quieres tratar tan mal?

Cuando fuiste mia

Cabeza

Si yo fuera tu novia

Hola

La, la, la, he, he, he, ay, ay, ay

Siempre esta en mi pelo

Dios

You people know nothing.

[Edited 4/8/13 3:23am]

People know this music from Purple Rain and probably Kiss, but not much more. At least in the Dominican Republic.

Javi said: Do you know if this is this a Spanish or a Latin American website?

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The site's opening page also has a Spanish email as contact: kyke@arrakis.es

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Mexico doesn't represent latin america and for those people mentioning political instablities in latin america, don't know much about the region because MJ and Madonna is/are huge in latin america. Also for the comment about latin american being a "macho"culture , there's as much "machismo" in the US as there is in latin america, a very nasty stereotype btw to make about over 500 million people. It doesn't make sense all the way either, because Freddie Mercury, David Bowie and spanish singer Miguel Bosé are HUGE and LOVED in various latin american countries and two are them were/are gay and Bowie was very androgynous. His new wave/synth music in the early 80s didn't cross over with afro-latinos, mestizos and native american that were more into disco/r&b type of music such as Earth Wind & fire to mention some. Latin Americans have a fond love of rock music and folk music, but also pop and since Prince doesn't belong in any of those groups. He is known more among the higher middle classes (mostly white) and those who like 80s culture, and more so in south american than central america & the carribean. My ex bf who was argentinean dedicated me a prince song and occasionaly I would hear his hits on rock bars while in south america, but again that's when they would have these 80s nostalgia nights lol. He had also had some hits in the 90s. Spain and latin america are also different cultures and I would think he is actually more known in Spain than he is Latin America.

[Edited 4/8/13 15:02pm]

GoldDolphin said:

Mexico doesn't represent latin america and for those people mentioning political instablities in latin america, don't know much about the region because MJ and Madonna is/are huge in latin america. Also for the comment about latin american being a "macho"culture , there's as much "machismo" in the US as there is in latin america, a very nasty stereotype btw to make about over 500 million people. It doesn't make sense all the way either, because Freddie Mercury, David Bowie and spanish singer Miguel Bosé are HUGE and LOVED in various latin american countries and two are them were/are gay and Bowie was very androgynous. His new wave/synth music in the early 80s didn't cross over with afro-latinos, mestizos and native american that were more into disco/r&b type of music such as Earth Wind & fire to mention some. Latin Americans have a fond love of rock music and folk music, but also pop and since Prince doesn't belong in any of those groups. He is known more among the higher middle classes (mostly white) and those who like 80s culture, and more so in south american than central america & the carribean. My ex bf who was argentinean dedicated me a prince song and occasionaly I would hear his hits on rock bars while in south america, but again that's when they would have these 80s nostalgia nights lol. He had also had some hits in the 90s. Spain and latin america are also different cultures and I would think he is actually more known in Spain than he is Latin America.

[Edited 4/8/13 15:02pm]

Thanks for your comments. I appreciate what you say about Prince's fans in Latin America.

Saying Latin American culture is a "macho" culture is certainly a generalization, but it's true that the "macho" ingredient is stronger in Latin cultures than in European/Anglo-Saxon, and this includes Spain and Italy too. As for your mention of other artists, Freddie Mercury had a very "macho" image and his music was guitar rock (the masculine music par excellence), Bosé has the great advantage of the language and is to a great extent outside the pop/rock world and Bowie's success in Latin America may be bigger than Prince's, but I don't think it's that big.

My comment about political instability was just something that came to my mind, and you should know it just after a quick read of my post. I know something about it, but I have no idea whether it had an influence on what we're talking about here. It may have something to do with Prince's lack of success in Latin America, and to prove this point one would have to carry a thorough research, which is something that, I'm afraid, neither you nor I are going to do.

It wasn't my intention to hurt anybody, as I already said. Saying that the "macho" ingredient is strong in Latin America is just a comment with which several Latin Americans I know agree. You know, it isn't such a bad thing to be critical of one's own culture. I myself am Spanish and find it a good thing to be critical with my country when I feel I must.

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SuperSoulFighter said:

Given the fact that he's done only 3 concerts on the entire continent (2 nights Rock in Rio plus 1 in Buenos Aires in 1991) my guess would be no. I didn't notice much love for him when I was in Mexico. That was 12 years ago, but I can't imagine things having changed very much.

callimnate said:

SuperSoulFighter said:

Given the fact that he's done only 3 concerts on the entire continent (2 nights Rock in Rio plus 1 in Buenos Aires in 1991) my guess would be no. I didn't notice much love for him when I was in Mexico. That was 12 years ago, but I can't imagine things having changed very much.

I don't think popularity has anything to do with him not touring down south.

Hec, he's only ever visited Australia twice and we ove him down here.

He would get 100,000 if he did Rio today IMO.

But for some reason bands just don't tour Latin America as often as other continents. Foo Fighters only just toured there for the first time last year!

I saw him in Buenos Aires in 91 and the stadium was pretty full, even though there was very little time in organising it.
Mind you, he didn't play an encore that night and the stage was ripped into pieces, so maybe that might have something to do with it.

SuperSoulFighter said:

Ripped into pieces? What exactly do you mean? These are some of the most mysterious concerts Prince ever did because few if any of the Prince "connaisseurs" were there. I have a CD called "Don't Cry 4 Me Argentina" so I know the set was basically the Nude tour with a few tracks of the upcoming Diamonds & Pearls album thrown in. Hell, he even played a track that wasn't even on the album called "Something Funky This House Comes". So if you were there...do tell!!!

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leafar said:

Of course Prince is popular in Latin America. He's known as Principe Rodriguez Negrin.

His most popular hits include :

Beso

Crema

La chica mas bella del mundo

Diamantes y perlas

Siete

Calle del abecedario

Quiero ser tu amante

Montañas

Llevame contigo

Hermana

Los brazos de Orion

My nombre es Principe

Cuando palomas lloran

Porque me quieres tratar tan mal?

Cuando fuiste mia

Cabeza

Si yo fuera tu novia

Hola

La, la, la, he, he, he, ay, ay, ay

Siempre esta en mi pelo

Dios

You people know nothing.

[Edited 4/8/13 3:23am]

lezama said:

People know this music from Purple Rain and probably Kiss, but not much more. At least in the Dominican Republic.

You could say that. We Dominicans love our merengue so unless Prince plans on doing a merengue rendition of Kiss I wouldn't count most as fans.

GoldenParachute said:

leafar said:

Of course Prince is popular in Latin America. He's known as Principe Rodriguez Negrin.

His most popular hits include :

Beso

Crema

La chica mas bella del mundo

Diamantes y perlas

Siete

Calle del abecedario

Quiero ser tu amante

Montañas

Llevame contigo

Hermana

Los brazos de Orion

My nombre es Principe

Cuando palomas lloran

Porque me quieres tratar tan mal?

Cuando fuiste mia

Cabeza

Si yo fuera tu novia

Hola

La, la, la, he, he, he, ay, ay, ay

Siempre esta en mi pelo

Dios

You people know nothing.

[Edited 4/8/13 3:23am]

I'm glad someone appreciated that. I put a lot of thought into it.