Thanks Latin, it was an interesting read.

The news that Prince had gotten married to Mayte Garcia was startling to all. After all, he had a reputation for having one of the most prodigious sexual appetites in the music industry, with a seemingly endless list of conquests. If there was one person who could never be tied down, it was Prince.

And yet Garcia, a dancer who had worked with Prince since the Diamonds and Pearls tour, changed all that. While Prince was famously guarded about his life, he offered a glimpse into his mindset regarding his decision to marry Mayte in "The Holy River," a track from 1996's Emancipation.

The lyrics suggest that it was part of his ever-evolving spiritual journey. All of his running around had, by this time in his life, left him with a hollow feeling. "You surrounded yourself with all the wrong faces / Spending your time in all the wrong places," he sings, using the second person to suggest that he was referring to his previous beliefs, adding, "Relationships based on the physical are over and done / They're over and done / You'd rather have fun / With only one, with only one."

Prince found the answer in God: "And then it hit you like a fist on a wall / Who gave you life when there was none at all?" Then he switches to the first person, where he stays for the rest of the song: "And the voice inside says tonight the truth will be told / And this time I was listening, hear me." (The song's official video dramatizes the entire story.

Having been shown the way, Prince proposes to Mayte, who accepts, changing Prince's tears from those of sorrow to those of joy.

PennyPurple said:

Thanks Latin! I love this song and it was interesting to read the story behind it.

pinkcashmere23 said:

I was just listening BABY on For You

a song about possibly marrying because of a coming child

'I hope he/she has your eyes'

I saw that article. My sources has told me. The only reason why Prince asked Mayte to marry him. She was pregnant. Otherwise, Prince was not going to marry Mayte at all.

42Kristen said:

I saw that article. My sources has told me. The only reason why Prince asked Mayte to marry him. She was pregnant. Otherwise, Prince was not going to marry Mayte at all.

That's not true.

42Kristen said:

I saw that article. My sources has told me. The only reason why Prince asked Mayte to marry him. She was pregnant. Otherwise, Prince was not going to marry Mayte at all.

Are you mad at the article or Mayte?