Was “guilt” of a new home that Prince had just bought. Accompanied by singer Chaka Khan, he sifted through a series of CD that were with him and resolved to listen to an album of Ana Moura. For him, it was an almost spiritual encounter, finding in music singer a beauty tune with that new space. It started there. Ana Moura came to know of this meeting Prince with his voice last time. The first actual contact between the two took the singer at an airport, at eight in the morning. Raul, security Prince, connected him to the phone to warn you that the author of Purple Rain would tell you in five minutes. There were five minutes trying to tame the nerves and prepare for the call in which the musician you promised to one day come to explain to you in detail what they heard and felt in his gravelly voice turned fado.
the meeting between the two would happen in 2009 when, after requesting the agenda of the singer, Prince chose the concert of Ana Moura in La Cigale room and traveled expressly to hear the French capital. A moment of nerves on edge, expecting almost to the last to fulfill the promise: after missing the soundcheck , the American musician appeared an hour before the start of the show with their entourage , to the delight of the public and the French press. After the show, put up on the way to a restaurant where they began to forge a friendship that would have new chapters shortly after.
In 2009, Prince flew again in the direction of Ana Moura to visit her in Lisbon insisting to give a jump to the Bairro Alto and, specifically, the Tasca do Chico. They ended up choosing another destination when, even in the car that followed, Prince was recognized and madness settled in Lisbon narrow streets. They stopped quickly in a chosen bar for security reasons. Instead of fate, happened to them a Cuban band stunned the public that calhara you in luck.
Of course, the great time we always associate the two will be the participation of Ana Moura at the Prince concert that filled and despaired the audience that flocked to the festival Super Bock Super Rock, 2010, having to stand in long queues of several hours to reach the room in Meco. The memorable performance of Prince as perfect sum of all black music in one man, in unstoppable mode best of , would later as valuable bonus sharing two themes – Alone with the night and the traditional fado I will give drink to pain -. with Ana Moura
it was the penultimate concert of Prince in Portugal. Prior to this, two other visits in 1993 and 1998, the Alvalade Stadium and Atlantic Pavilion, respectively. After the concert in the Atlantic, reflecting an electric musician who liked too much music to be limited following the industry conventions, mark on the time a second performance at Lux nightclub in system jam session . In 2013, when released in Lisbon Coliseum prodigious lesson of rock’n’roll in the 3rd Eye Girl company, the concert also fell by surprise in the city’s summer. Days earlier, had attended another performance of Ana Moura in Gafanha da Nazaré, and that same year, a page associated therewith and the signing 3rdeyegirl, it revealed a remix allegedly his to the theme of fado Dream of fire , included in the album Desfado . That was the last we heard of them.
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