好きではいたけど何十年も経って突然、まさに盲目的にファンになったミュージッシャンが、美空ひばりや笠置シヅ子、大橋純子や原田真二。元々が洋物狂いだったので、ロックもソウルもファンクも前衛もノイズもジャズも大好き。ただ、当時チャラチャラすぎて避けていた一人に”プリンス”、がいた。最近オリンに「早苗はパープルレイン見てないの？」と言われ、嫌々この伝説の映画を見て、それからはプリンス街道まっしぐら。こんなに夢中になるのは２０代前半の頃のスティービーワンダー以来かしら。
プリンスについてはあらゆる情報が溢れかえっているので、一切省きます。
晩年はチャリティ活動を行い、また、ケムトレイルの批判など、かなり鋭い人でもあった彼の５７年の、どこまでも美しく年を重ね、同時に人を超えた何かの化身。この３次元界のあらゆる美、醜、性、これら情念の波動を最大限視覚化させたマルチアーティスト。あたかも、サラスワティーかビシュヌ、クリシュナもしくはシヴァに違いない、と思った時、間髪おかずに、「いや、そうではないよ。僕はハヌマンなんだ」っていう彼の（？）声が聞こえた。
プリンス/ Prince Rodgers Nelson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician) ハヌマン/ Hanuman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanuman
The Japanese musicians who I liked but suddenly became a fan of after decades were Hibari Misora, Shizuko Kasagi, Junko Ohashi and Shinji Harada. I was originally a Western enthusiast, so I love rock, soul, funk, avant-garde, noise and jazz. However, there was a “prince”…. I was avoiding him because at that time I thought he was too noisy and nasty. Recently, Orin asked me, “Haven’t you seen Purple Rain?”, so I reluctantly watched this legendary movie, and then I went straight to Prince. I wonder if I have been so crazy since Stevie Wonder when I was in my early twenties.
There is numerous information about Prince, so I don’t need to say much more about him.
In his later years, he was a charity activist, and he had a very sharp point of view, such as criticizing the chemtrails. For all his 57 years, he was an incarnation of something that transcends humans, he was a multimedia artist who maximized the visualization of all the beauty, ugliness, sexuality, and vibrations of these emotions in this three-dimensional world. When I thought he must be Saraswati, Bishnu, Krishna or Shiva, instantly I heard his (?) voice saying, “No, I’m Hanuman”.
