As fans across the country and around the globe mourn the loss of the 57-year-old icon, we look to Puerto Rican dancer Mayte Garcia who met Prince at the tender age of 16 and was married to him for four years.
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Prince’s first wife, the inspiration behind the hit song The Most Beautiful Girl In the World, is taking solace in one thing following the singer’s unexpected death. And since then he has sold 100 million records, won a total of seven Grammy Awards, and was deemed by Rolling Stone to be one of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Prince and Garcia Wednesday in a lavish wedding Valentine’s Day, 1996.
She is now a choreographer and actress, most famous perhaps for her work on the music video for Britney Spears’ 2001 song I’m A Slave 4 U, with Garcia choreographing the belly dancing routines performed by the pop star and her dancers.
She went on to miscarry soon afterwards and the grief destroyed their marriage. It took me at least 15 years to get over it and still, to this day, I miss my son.
She said: “I didn’t really want to speak to anybody”.
“There’s all sorts of different kinds of people everywhere you go in Toronto, there’s all sorts of great music, great restaurants, great night spots that don’t respond to a lot of American playlists and have playlists which I really dig”.
“I believe a child dying between a couple either makes you stronger or it doesn’t”.
Vanity, like many of Prince’s lovers, would later write in her autobiography that he was the only man she ever truly loved.
“Plus, technically, I was married to the Symbol”.
Prince and Garcia also didn’t say anything about the child’s death.
“Often we would play an arena then there would be an aftershow, and afterwards you’re not exhausted because you’ve got so much adrenaline going”.
“I love Toronto”, Prince told the wire service.
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Two years ago she adopted her daughter, Gia, who is now three-and-a-half. You can’t compete!’ she said. But the jacket of the CD only lists recording work at Mississauga’s Metalworks Studios, as well as additional work in Minnesota, his home state, and NY.
