http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/12/14/eps/1450097547_009086.html

[Edited 12/16/15 9:29am]

TheQuest said:

http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/12/14/eps/1450097547_009086.html

[Edited 12/16/15 9:29am]

No hablo espanol

TheQuest said:

Translated article:

NPG RECORDS

Lucy, the receptionist at the Country Inn and Suites in Chanhassen,Minnesota , can not help laughing. It's the third change to the appointment with the taxi in just two hours. "Do not worry, you can do ten times more if you want. Is Prince "he says. If the first amendment of the program came in the form of terse email from Denmark, this time they have used the phone. Trevor Guy, assistantPrince , tells us that when meeting with your boss will finally be at seven in the evening and we have prepared "a lot of surprises."

/

Not that the delays are amazing. Prince has always cultivated the image that remains today: a brilliant and elusive genius, virtuoso in dozens of instruments, hardly speak or look anyone in the eye. A being who thinks only of his art, that only he can create. And the press does not fit into those coordinates. In 1982, in its first promotional campaign, with their fifth album, 1999 , he granted a single interview and left swearing it was the last. He kept his word for two and a half years. In the nineties, a journalist spent six days around Paisley Park, his strength of Minnesota study, the American Midwest, to finish talking with Prince by phone.

.

He seems to enjoy playing cat and mouse. Scattered around the hotels in the area there are five journalists from five countries. The call has been hasty and vague and came with only two days notice: If we wanted to "meet" with Prince, had to be at five o'clock Saturday afternoon in Paisley Park. No recorder. Only pen and paper. We say later: "I did a brainstorming for two nights and thought, 'I bring a few journalists, I tell them do not have anything, and the next day everyone will know. " But critics love because they love me. I am not kidding. Look, everyone notices when someone is lazy, and now, with the Internet, it is impossible for an editor it is, because they all will point. Now it's embarrassing to say something false. You should tell the truth. "

.

We have traveled 9,000 kilometers to Chanhassen, a town of 20,000 inhabitants about 30 minutes drive-in. Here ASI- distance of the city that make Minneapolis and St. Paul, where Prince Rogers Nelson A short guy, the son of a pianist and jazz vocalist, both born in 1958. Blacks are measured. Chanhassen was chosen second best place in the US to live by Money Magazine in 2009 . Flirty and nondescript residential streets. What they call the square is a shopping area. Just walking through the sidewalks to walk the dog. And at noon on this sunny Saturday in November the thermometer reads three degrees.Everyone here knows Paisley Park, a complex comprised of three recording studios and two concert halls. The most exciting thing that has happened in 30 years the town. Prince opened in 1985, at the zenith of his popularity. In 1984 Warner threatened not to renew his contract if not let him star in a movie. Appear on movie screens the world seemed the way to reach a more diverse audience. The multinational chose to grant the whim rather than let him escape.The result was Purple Rain , a huge success, selling 20 million copies, Academy Award for Best Original Score. And its conversion to a black artist to everyone. Over a period it was as big as Michael Jackson.Any artist would complain of the long shadow of that album. But he claims not to feel bored of playing those songs. "You'll get tired of you clap? You never get tired of applause. He never bored. And you can not applaud something you have not heard before, do not know. If you play a song that you know, it would be an experience for you in which you are involved. Use a different part of the brain that when you hear something you do not know. "

.

Version of 'Creep' by Radiohead, played by Prince Coachella Festival in 2008. It is the only video that's in his Youtube. / YOUTUBE

.

Apparently, Paisley Park is on the right. Somewhere a five minute drive-in motel, of course- is the last major stronghold of eccentric rock. Yesterday gave a concert there, count. One of those direct calling surprise that makes his fans for Twitter. "It goes in spurts. In recent months it has done a lot. Must carry 10 or 12, "says one of the waiters of a pub.

.

"When everyone left, I was on stage playing and singing just for me another three hours. And it was wonderful, "then he tells Prince. He had entered what he calls "the zone". "I could not stop. It's like experience you've left your body. Like sitting among the audience seeing yourself. This is what you want. Transcend. And when that happens ... ", he nods his head and released," Oh, boy ".

It seems most comfortable and relaxed. It takes a while sitting at the piano in one of the scenarios Paisley Park. She has appeared suddenly and is fleshing out his theories on music industry and their upcoming tour. A tour by piano only European capitals suspended just days before its start as a result of the attacks in Paris, which left 130 dead and three hundred wounded. They had already been put on sale tickets for the British concerts. The pull of Prince is such that a few hours resale asked 2,500 euros for a ticket.

.

Even remotely I say that it is 57 years. Looks much younger, maybe 40. Maybe less, even. Although that aspect may give it the dim light that illuminates the room. He wears an Afro hairstyle and dressed in white from top to bottom with what looks like the version of those pajamas kimonos that Elvis wore in Las Vegas. White shoes platform sandals with white socks. A unique combination, which is more the more curious sights.

.
And inevitably look, because I'm literally at the foot of Prince. The interview we have traveled 9,000 kilometers on the race is sit back on stage as he plays the piano. The situation reminds one of those pictures in which Christ speaks to disciples who listen raptly.

When everyone left, I was on stage playing for me three hours. I could not stop. That's what you want, transcend. And when that happens ... oh, boy! "

Before coming to spend an hour in this uncomfortable position, five European journalists from Britain, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Spain, we have seen the faces of night before a closed fence, at a crossroads in the middle of the nothing that we have identified as the main entrance to Paisley Park. There is no visible sign of human being near or bell to call. In the background a group of buildings, one of which is illuminated by a purple focus guess. His favorite color. It's all very cold, very practical. A warehouse is not the idea of ​​the den of one of the most extravagant live musicians.

Trevor Guy greets us at the entrance for loading and unloading that gives the room where we will see after Prince. It offers a guided tour of what he calls "the wonderland of music". Studies are enormous.There is a restaurant a granite top to bottom, to record pianos.Another dark to, with phosphorescent stars, called "the galaxy room" and used to meditate. On the walls, their awards. Not the Oscar statuette, but in what they call the production office is the very motorcycle parked purple cover of the album Purple Rain . An icon of rock history. Passing a study indicate an abandoned scribbling like a relic folio, proof that he has been working here very recently. "No sense of time. With him there is no timetable. He's always working.Any time".

.

Smells like lavender. "We scented candles 24 hours a day," says Trevor, who apologizes for not teach private areas. "He does not live here, I can not say where he lives because they do not know. When it not in Paisley Park, fades ". Everything indicates that typically resides in Los Angeles since 2008, after his second divorce.

.

In a hallway, a messianic mural-usually everything has a disturbing scent of the personality cult places in downtown Prince. To his right, his predecessors: Santana, Hendrix ... A prominent place is occupied by Larry Graham, bass player, the person that made Prince to the faith of Jehovah's Witnesses in 2001.

.

His faith permeates the atmosphere. Paisley Park no meat or alcohol is not served. His songs are no longer those incitement to sex of their early years. In 1980 published Dirty Mind , a manifesto of 30 minutes for sexual liberation and breaking taboos, but does not want to talk about issues such as Head , in which ejaculating appeared in the dress of a bride who goes to his wedding. "You have a copy of that record, right? I've written so many songs that I did not think of her. I do not feel tied to a topic that. I could not move forward if it was linked to a song from my past. Being Jehovah's Witness has made ​​me strive to have the same things differently. He has come close to the truth. And now the fans are older, have families, want to bring their children. It is a good move, you reach a wider audience to experience the same. "

.

Shortly before his conversion he had recovered his name. During the nineties he became embroiled in a legal dispute with his record.Among other things, Warner had registered his name and he decided to be renamed with an unpronounceable symbol. He is now in all possible sizes adorning the walls of Paisley Park.

In 1985, Prince, in their most splendid. /LIFE (GETTY)

.

Prince is the brainchild of Prince Roger Nelson. A prototype manufactured by it based on a theoretical model also designed by him. It worked so well that, without having released an album of real success since 2006, still has the perks of a superstar. But if we define superstar as a universally recognizable character beyond borders, races and generations, Prince no longer fits. Generated news and fills stadiums, but although his is a household name for over 30 years, those able to remember what was important between 1984 and 1994, barely exists for most children under 25. For further advised that not sign contracts with record companies. He signed the first 17 years. "I'm not who to tell young people what to do, but it is clear that companies no longer have money. I did not get what I got for a record. If it had not been awarded a contract, I had continued playing. We had a great band and played. And every time we played, we were better. We had a studio for recording. And the more we recorded, we did better. The companies did not teach me anything, I had my own teachers. "

It also ensures that music today lacks risk. "When was the last time someone you scared? In the seventies, then scary. Now there is nothing to copy. "

.

It's funny because he built his myth trying to be an artist who could enter the room of any house. Initially avoid being seen as an artist for the black audience. Something still considered a drag on industry relations. "Just look at history. U2 loves his record company. Instead [soul star] Sam Cooke died because of him, "says emphatic when asked if relations with the stamps are more difficult in the case of black artists. In the beginning even hid their origin assuring that his mother was Italian. Today seems to have forgotten and laughs the case of rights activist African American Rachel Dolezal , who lied about his race. "That woman who claimed she was black when it was white," with a rogue loose gesture.

.

Now feel appreciated, he says. "Most respected and heard than ever.Today I can do many more things. " After trying all kinds of distributions to their albums, carried 38 37-year career, believes he has found the key: Tidal , the platform that created the rapper Jay Z to compete with Spotify and Apple Music. It has released its latest album, Hit n'Run in September. Only in digital format. He said that the Internet had died. "And he was right: tell me a musician who has gotten rich with digital sales. However, Apple is doing pretty well with it, right? ".

.

It is just off the stage without saying goodbye. We expect the final surprise, a concert in our honor. He has called that afternoon, but the room is packed. Front of the stage has placed sofas and cushions.The rest is full of high tables with stools. The order does not begin until all the public sitting. "But why should I sit?" He says a twenty to one of the goalkeepers. It is supported on a wall without disturbing anyone, and if she bends not see anything. "Because he wants it that way," he answered. And the young man settles into the ground.There are things that are not discussed.

elpaissemanal@elpais.es

databank said:

TheQuest said:

http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/12/14/eps/1450097547_009086.html

[Edited 12/16/15 9:29am]

No hablo espanol

Deberías aprender

[Edited 12/16/15 14:06pm]

214 said:

Me parece que es la misma entrevista ya publicada hace un par de semanas.

callimnate said:

214 said:

Deberías aprender

[Edited 12/16/15 14:06pm]

Jajaja (con jota).

Qué es lo que causa la risa a tu persona?

That was a terrible Google translation -- but you can tell this was pretty good writing with lots of the usual stylistic flourishes.

Aerogram said:

That was a terrible Google translation -- but you can tell this was pretty good writing with lots of the usual stylistic flourishes.

Which translation? spanish or the english one?

purplethunder3121 said:

Translated article:

Prince, eternal resurrection

It is a myth, although since 2006 none of his albums have conquered the number one. At 57 years, it remains a mixture of genius, hobbies and shadows

A peculiar meeting somewhere Minnesota lost a single artist

• 
  
  

NPG RECORDS

Lucy, the receptionist at the Country Inn and Suites in Chanhassen,Minnesota , can not help laughing. It's the third change to the appointment with the taxi in just two hours. "Do not worry, you can do ten times more if you want. Is Prince "he says. If the first amendment of the program came in the form of terse email from Denmark, this time they have used the phone. Trevor Guy, assistantPrince , tells us that when meeting with your boss will finally be at seven in the evening and we have prepared "a lot of surprises."

/

Not that the delays are amazing. Prince has always cultivated the image that remains today: a brilliant and elusive genius, virtuoso in dozens of instruments, hardly speak or look anyone in the eye. A being who thinks only of his art, that only he can create. And the press does not fit into those coordinates. In 1982, in its first promotional campaign, with their fifth album, 1999 , he granted a single interview and left swearing it was the last. He kept his word for two and a half years. In the nineties, a journalist spent six days around Paisley Park, his strength of Minnesota study, the American Midwest, to finish talking with Prince by phone.

.

He seems to enjoy playing cat and mouse. Scattered around the hotels in the area there are five journalists from five countries. The call has been hasty and vague and came with only two days notice: If we wanted to "meet" with Prince, had to be at five o'clock Saturday afternoon in Paisley Park. No recorder. Only pen and paper. We say later: "I did a brainstorming for two nights and thought, 'I bring a few journalists, I tell them do not have anything, and the next day everyone will know. " But critics love because they love me. I am not kidding. Look, everyone notices when someone is lazy, and now, with the Internet, it is impossible for an editor it is, because they all will point. Now it's embarrassing to say something false. You should tell the truth. "

.

We have traveled 9,000 kilometers to Chanhassen, a town of 20,000 inhabitants about 30 minutes drive-in. Here ASI- distance of the city that make Minneapolis and St. Paul, where Prince Rogers Nelson A short guy, the son of a pianist and jazz vocalist, both born in 1958. Blacks are measured. Chanhassen was chosen second best place in the US to live by Money Magazine in 2009 . Flirty and nondescript residential streets. What they call the square is a shopping area. Just walking through the sidewalks to walk the dog. And at noon on this sunny Saturday in November the thermometer reads three degrees.Everyone here knows Paisley Park, a complex comprised of three recording studios and two concert halls. The most exciting thing that has happened in 30 years the town. Prince opened in 1985, at the zenith of his popularity. In 1984 Warner threatened not to renew his contract if not let him star in a movie. Appear on movie screens the world seemed the way to reach a more diverse audience. The multinational chose to grant the whim rather than let him escape.The result was Purple Rain , a huge success, selling 20 million copies, Academy Award for Best Original Score. And its conversion to a black artist to everyone. Over a period it was as big as Michael Jackson.Any artist would complain of the long shadow of that album. But he claims not to feel bored of playing those songs. "You'll get tired of you clap? You never get tired of applause. He never bored. And you can not applaud something you have not heard before, do not know. If you play a song that you know, it would be an experience for you in which you are involved. Use a different part of the brain that when you hear something you do not know. "

.

Version of 'Creep' by Radiohead, played by Prince Coachella Festival in 2008. It is the only video that's in his Youtube. / YOUTUBE

.

Apparently, Paisley Park is on the right. Somewhere a five minute drive-in motel, of course- is the last major stronghold of eccentric rock. Yesterday gave a concert there, count. One of those direct calling surprise that makes his fans for Twitter. "It goes in spurts. In recent months it has done a lot. Must carry 10 or 12, "says one of the waiters of a pub.

.

"When everyone left, I was on stage playing and singing just for me another three hours. And it was wonderful, "then he tells Prince. He had entered what he calls "the zone". "I could not stop. It's like experience you've left your body. Like sitting among the audience seeing yourself. This is what you want. Transcend. And when that happens ... ", he nods his head and released," Oh, boy ".

It seems most comfortable and relaxed. It takes a while sitting at the piano in one of the scenarios Paisley Park. She has appeared suddenly and is fleshing out his theories on music industry and their upcoming tour. A tour by piano only European capitals suspended just days before its start as a result of the attacks in Paris, which left 130 dead and three hundred wounded. They had already been put on sale tickets for the British concerts. The pull of Prince is such that a few hours resale asked 2,500 euros for a ticket.

.

Even remotely I say that it is 57 years. Looks much younger, maybe 40. Maybe less, even. Although that aspect may give it the dim light that illuminates the room. He wears an Afro hairstyle and dressed in white from top to bottom with what looks like the version of those pajamas kimonos that Elvis wore in Las Vegas. White shoes platform sandals with white socks. A unique combination, which is more the more curious sights.

.
And inevitably look, because I'm literally at the foot of Prince. The interview we have traveled 9,000 kilometers on the race is sit back on stage as he plays the piano. The situation reminds one of those pictures in which Christ speaks to disciples who listen raptly.

When everyone left, I was on stage playing for me three hours. I could not stop. That's what you want, transcend. And when that happens ... oh, boy! "

Before coming to spend an hour in this uncomfortable position, five European journalists from Britain, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Spain, we have seen the faces of night before a closed fence, at a crossroads in the middle of the nothing that we have identified as the main entrance to Paisley Park. There is no visible sign of human being near or bell to call. In the background a group of buildings, one of which is illuminated by a purple focus guess. His favorite color. It's all very cold, very practical. A warehouse is not the idea of ​​the den of one of the most extravagant live musicians.

Trevor Guy greets us at the entrance for loading and unloading that gives the room where we will see after Prince. It offers a guided tour of what he calls "the wonderland of music". Studies are enormous.There is a restaurant a granite top to bottom, to record pianos.Another dark to, with phosphorescent stars, called "the galaxy room" and used to meditate. On the walls, their awards. Not the Oscar statuette, but in what they call the production office is the very motorcycle parked purple cover of the album Purple Rain . An icon of rock history. Passing a study indicate an abandoned scribbling like a relic folio, proof that he has been working here very recently. "No sense of time. With him there is no timetable. He's always working.Any time".

.

Smells like lavender. "We scented candles 24 hours a day," says Trevor, who apologizes for not teach private areas. "He does not live here, I can not say where he lives because they do not know. When it not in Paisley Park, fades ". Everything indicates that typically resides in Los Angeles since 2008, after his second divorce.

.

In a hallway, a messianic mural-usually everything has a disturbing scent of the personality cult places in downtown Prince. To his right, his predecessors: Santana, Hendrix ... A prominent place is occupied by Larry Graham, bass player, the person that made Prince to the faith of Jehovah's Witnesses in 2001.

.

His faith permeates the atmosphere. Paisley Park no meat or alcohol is not served. His songs are no longer those incitement to sex of their early years. In 1980 published Dirty Mind , a manifesto of 30 minutes for sexual liberation and breaking taboos, but does not want to talk about issues such as Head , in which ejaculating appeared in the dress of a bride who goes to his wedding. "You have a copy of that record, right? I've written so many songs that I did not think of her. I do not feel tied to a topic that. I could not move forward if it was linked to a song from my past. Being Jehovah's Witness has made ​​me strive to have the same things differently. He has come close to the truth. And now the fans are older, have families, want to bring their children. It is a good move, you reach a wider audience to experience the same. "

.

Shortly before his conversion he had recovered his name. During the nineties he became embroiled in a legal dispute with his record.Among other things, Warner had registered his name and he decided to be renamed with an unpronounceable symbol. He is now in all possible sizes adorning the walls of Paisley Park.

In 1985, Prince, in their most splendid. /LIFE (GETTY)

.

Prince is the brainchild of Prince Roger Nelson. A prototype manufactured by it based on a theoretical model also designed by him. It worked so well that, without having released an album of real success since 2006, still has the perks of a superstar. But if we define superstar as a universally recognizable character beyond borders, races and generations, Prince no longer fits. Generated news and fills stadiums, but although his is a household name for over 30 years, those able to remember what was important between 1984 and 1994, barely exists for most children under 25. For further advised that not sign contracts with record companies. He signed the first 17 years. "I'm not who to tell young people what to do, but it is clear that companies no longer have money. I did not get what I got for a record. If it had not been awarded a contract, I had continued playing. We had a great band and played. And every time we played, we were better. We had a studio for recording. And the more we recorded, we did better. The companies did not teach me anything, I had my own teachers. "

It also ensures that music today lacks risk. "When was the last time someone you scared? In the seventies, then scary. Now there is nothing to copy. "

.

It's funny because he built his myth trying to be an artist who could enter the room of any house. Initially avoid being seen as an artist for the black audience. Something still considered a drag on industry relations. "Just look at history. U2 loves his record company. Instead [soul star] Sam Cooke died because of him, "says emphatic when asked if relations with the stamps are more difficult in the case of black artists. In the beginning even hid their origin assuring that his mother was Italian. Today seems to have forgotten and laughs the case of rights activist African American Rachel Dolezal , who lied about his race. "That woman who claimed she was black when it was white," with a rogue loose gesture.

.

Now feel appreciated, he says. "Most respected and heard than ever.Today I can do many more things. " After trying all kinds of distributions to their albums, carried 38 37-year career, believes he has found the key: Tidal , the platform that created the rapper Jay Z to compete with Spotify and Apple Music. It has released its latest album, Hit n'Run in September. Only in digital format. He said that the Internet had died. "And he was right: tell me a musician who has gotten rich with digital sales. However, Apple is doing pretty well with it, right? ".

.

It is just off the stage without saying goodbye. We expect the final surprise, a concert in our honor. He has called that afternoon, but the room is packed. Front of the stage has placed sofas and cushions.The rest is full of high tables with stools. The order does not begin until all the public sitting. "But why should I sit?" He says a twenty to one of the goalkeepers. It is supported on a wall without disturbing anyone, and if she bends not see anything. "Because he wants it that way," he answered. And the young man settles into the ground.There are things that are not discussed.

elpaissemanal@elpais.es

Too long to read.

214 said: