Sheila E. Reveals She Wants to Collab With Bruno Mars at the 2024 Grammys: "The Ball's in His Court" | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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Sheila E. tells THR on the red carpet for the 2024 Grammys her reaction to the fan response for the Netflix documentary 'Greatest Night in Pop.' Plus, she reveals how she wants to collab with Bruno Mars next.

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00:00How does it feel to be back here at the Grammys?

00:02It's always great to be here.

00:04It's an amazing night, and, you know, just to be able to see all these artists and, you know, the nominees, like, congratulations to everyone.

00:12Music is just amazing.

00:13So look at what music does, bringing everyone together.

00:17It's amazing.

00:17I just watched The Greatest Night in Pop, the new documentary you're in, about when you recorded We Are the World.

00:23What has the fan response to that documentary been like for you so far?

00:26Oh, my God, my phone has not stopped blowing up, really.

00:28Like, from all over the world.

00:30Like, people are just texting, DMing me, sending messages, like, writing on my website letters, and I just watched it, and, oh, my God.

00:39No, it's been really incredible.

00:41I had no idea, because I hadn't seen the documentary until Monday.

00:45I didn't even know.

00:47Yeah.

00:47What was your reaction when you first watched it on the big screen?

00:51It was amazing.

00:52I loved the things that I didn't know about after I left, and then towards the end,

00:58and then I just cried.

00:59All of them being such a big hit.

01:00Yeah.

01:00What do you remember most about that night?

01:03Well, for one, the most about that night was how nervous I was to play the American Music Awards,

01:10because it was my first time ever being a solo artist, and that was a big deal,

01:14and because Dick Clark, it was a big deal that I wanted them to turn the lights out,

01:18because I had my glow sticks, and it's like, you have to turn the lights out in order for them to work,

01:23and they're like, we can't do that.

01:24It's national television, so they waited.

01:26If you watched that, they waited until they went on to turn the lights off, so it was a big deal,

01:30and then you can't look in the front because you see all of these amazing people that were in the audience.

01:36You get nervous, and it's like, oh, my God.

01:38So that was scary enough, and then going to there, but I knew a lot, maybe half of the artists there at We Are the World,

01:46yeah, at the taping, recording, but it was a lot of fun, a lot of fun.

01:51The whole story of that night is just really unbelievable,

01:54and it's hard to imagine that we'd be able to get artists today together like that,

01:59after a show like the American Music Awards or the Grammys.

02:02It wouldn't happen, no, no.

02:04Everyone has too many, like, you've got like 10 people hanging out with you,

02:09and to be told, stay in the other room, just the artists, that's not going to happen, no.

02:14I know.

02:14That was an interesting detail that no publicists, no managers in the room, just the artists.

02:19Yeah, no, and it was so cool because there was no drama, really.

02:22I mean, there were some things that were happening, but we were all tired.

02:25You know, I had been up three days before I got there, and we were still out on the Purple Rain tour,

02:29so by 4 o'clock or so, I left.

02:32I was done, yeah.

02:34So many iconic artists are featured in the documentary and were on the song,

02:37but who are some new artists today that you've been loving their music?

02:42Oh, man.

02:44I'm not going to pick like one or two.

02:46Of course, I love Billie Eilish, but I'm not going to pick one or two

02:49because I'm really excited about the new music that's coming out and the change,

02:53and I love that, you know, people being created, and it's exciting, you know.

02:58We're not staying at the same place.

03:00Things are moving, so that's what I love about it.

03:03And you have a new song coming out.

03:05What can you tell me about it?

03:06Yeah, Gloria Estefan sang on it.

03:09It's a Celia Cruz song, a famous Celia Cruz song called Bemba Coloral,

03:13and it comes out February 23rd, and the album comes out April 5th.

03:18It's the first time I've ever done a Salsa record,

03:20so I'm really excited about it because I've never done that.

03:22I have Ruben Blades, Roberto Santarosa, Luis Enrique, Victor Manuel,

03:27Tony Succar, Mimi Succar, my dad, my mom.

03:29I have a lot of people, yeah.

03:31And you've done so many amazing collaborations over the years,

03:34but who's one artist that you haven't gotten the chance to collaborate with yet

03:37that you'd love to?

03:39Probably Bruno Mars.

03:40We've talked about it, yeah, and we're like, we've got to do something.

03:43So we're still talking about it.

03:44I don't know how long.

03:45I'm waiting on him now.

03:47It's the balls in his corner.

03:48I don't know how long.

Sheila E. Reveals She Wants to Collab With Bruno Mars at the 2024 Grammys: "The Ball's in His Court" | THR Video

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