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One Tweet from Prince Changed Everything for Kandace Springs (OAN, He LOVED movies) Singer Kandace Springs on How a Tweet From Prince Changed Her Life
“He would kick people out of the movie theater and just keep one employee there, to make popcorn. It would just be us two, with the entire movie theater to ourselves,” Springs says. “We saw Ride Along 2. Lucy. One time we watched The Notebook. He loved to watch movies.”
The sultry-voiced singer from Nashville reminisced about Prince on the phone from a hotel room in Japan, where she was just back from performing three songs on a TV show with 15 million viewers...Springs says she was on the path to becoming another overproduced R&B singer before Prince stepped in. “Prince would harass me,” Springs says with a laugh. “He’d say, ‘Kandace, you play jazz. You are a jazz musician. You are the Roberta Flack of your generation.’ He would call my producers and harass them and tell them to stop making tracks like that.”
Prince had first reached out to Springs after hearing her cover of Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me,” extending an invitation to perform with him at his home and recording studio, Paisley Park, for the 30th anniversary of Purple Rain.
“He messaged me directly on Twitter and I was like, ‘Is this really happening?’ He was saying ‘all your dreams are about to come true’ and then he asked me to come play with his band. It was unbelievable. But we became really good friends,” Springs says.
She last saw Prince in January, for her birthday. In the car on the way from the airport, he asked to hear Soul Eyes. “So I played it for him,” Springs says. “And he said, ‘Man, you did it.’” Read more...
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Lovely article. It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. We all need one another. ~ PRN | |
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. Obviously, he loved movies in the theater -- the same as we do. It's the only way. . Welcome to "the org", laytonian… come bathe with me. |
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Lovely Erin Smith | |
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This is so sweet. | |
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Nice, I love that he reached out to so many lesser known artists & encouraged them. P was just cool    I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it | |
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laytonian said: . Obviously, he loved movies in the theater -- the same as we do. It's the only way. . I know. Right??? | |
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For every protege you saw, there were like 10 more just like them waiting in the wings, with the exact experiences and relationship with Prince as the others. Prince really was a man of routines and habits. Seems like no one was genuinely close to him. Everyone seems like an interchangeable cog in the machine. | |
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funksterr said: For every protege you saw, there were like 10 more just like them waiting in the wings, with the exact experiences and relationship with Prince as the others. Prince really was a man of routines and habits. Seems like no one was genuinely close to him. Everyone seems like an interchangeable cog in the machine. You really do have to shit on everything, don't you? Why the fuck are you even here?? *sorry folks, I know I'm troll-feeding* I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it | |
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. It's a dirty job but some1 has to do it . Welcome to "the org", laytonian… come bathe with me. |
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I was there in July, 27, 2014 when Kandace showed up to perform with a make shift band including John Blackwell on drums. P just sat and watched her from the side of the stage...then he took the fams into the big room at Paisley for a properly 60 minute Purple Rain inspired set and had her sit in on a Roberta Flack cover. | |
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Hmm... I said nothing negative at all. It's just noticeable that Prince was more or less on auto-pilot in his dealings with the majority of people. I'm more curious about that facet of his life than anything else right now. I don't see how I "shit on everything" by noticing. [Edited 8/4/16 12:51pm] | |
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