Where you would normally put something – he would not put it there. It’s great because it really stretches you. The way he does things is completely non-conformist.
He hears things different from normal people, you know? ‘If I Love U 2nite’… what was interesting was where he put the harmonies. He basically just sat down in the studio and played me all these songs and asked me which ones I liked. I was told that he doesn’t work until four in the morning, so it was a bit out of my time zone! But it wasn’t too bad actually because I’d just flown in from London. The only thing that was unconventional was the time he turned up to meet me. How does he approach the writing and recording process? It’s kind of like a Pinewood vibe, you know? Like a massive recording studio inside this huge complex. There’s nothing around it it’s just this big, big building. Where he is, it’s sort of in the countryside. It’s a big place in the middle of just… green. What’s Paisley Park like? Is it true that he has every room in the building wired for impromptu recording? I couldn’t believe he knew who I was! So after that I flew to Minneapolis and that was it – we started working from there. a Then he just sent the mic over to me for me to sing with him while he played ‘ Just My Imagination’. I was in the audience and he saw me and asked me – “ aren’t you a singer?” – in the middle of the show. I had just signed my first deal with Island and we were just about to release the first single ‘My One Temptation’. It started off when I went to his show when I had just turned 18. So you’ve taken part in the upcoming Radio 4 documentary about Prince. Nothing’s changed – it’s just always doing 7 million things at once!
#Mica paris and prince tv#
Apart from that, lots of TV and still doing the shows with my eight-piece band. I just finished an album with Rod Temperton, which I’ve been working on for two years, and I’m working on another project too. How are you Mica? What have you been working on recently? Across the span of her sprawling career, she’s worked with the likes of Nile Rodgers, Eric B & Rakim and Boy George – but perhaps her best-known collaborative work was signing the Prince -penned ‘ If I Love U 2nite ’ in 1991.įollowing the news that Mica features in an upcoming BBC Radio 4 documentary about Prince, we caught up with her to trace back the beginning of her working relationship with him and to find out about some exciting album projects of her own. One of the greatest soul voices the UK has ever produced, Mica Paris shot to fame in the late ‘ 80s with debut single ‘My One Temptation’ in 1988.
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