ABC-7 speaks with two locals that worked with Prince

in el paso have taken some time to remember the 7-time grammy award winner — often called an innovator in music. abc-7’s jerry najera is live with the story … rick estela prince’s music has been around for more than three decades now he just released an album in september of last year. and today we caught up with a well known las cruces woman who brought him to the pan american center and a el pasoan who got to tour with prince. former pan am center director of special event bara hubbard or mother hubbard as they call her reflects on the time she brought prince down to the pan am center in th 80’s she shows us pictures of the day the tickets went on sale telling us people camped out just to their spot to see the star. hubbard says it was his passion for music that bolted him to the top of the charts “the fact that he involved his total being in whatever he was presenting and he was emotionally into his pieces” hubbard tells abc-7 if he would do a concert todays he would still fill every seat “ill tell you what i would have to do two shows if not more if we were doing it today” “he just love playing if it was for 5 people or five thousand people or 50 thousand people he would play it he loved playing music” ceo of the e paso sports commision brian kennedy got to tour with prince in the 80’s he worked on the security team. “i was par of the team that would go out late at night when he decided to go clubbing after the show” kennedy says prince would always go out afterhours –when he knew most people had left the bars prince was known to keep to himslef because the popularity became overwhelming. “purple rain hi so hard and so big that it almost forced him to be recluse because the people were crazy trying to get to him we would go to an after hours club and people would lose their minds trying to get to him” o a personal level kennedy says prince was humble and polite but it was the musicians talent that awed him all those late nights. “he was a genuis musically he would get on stage and say ok what do i want to play he could pick up anything on stage and play any genre” kennedy says prince was constantly producing and recording music that was never released he tells me there’s a good chance we could be hearing new music coming out in the future. in the world of wrestling