The highlight of the day was my
joyful reunion with AnPu after four years. I am not sure how I would have
managed to get in touch with her again after all these years. Common friends
whom I asked to send her my greetings would forget to pass on the message. The
email address she gave me years ago didn’t seem to work. Phone messages were
not answered… More years would have gone by if it hadn’t been for Adrian who,
before he left for the U.S. threw a little dinner party at my place and introduced
me to a couple of musicians of his acquaintance, Coen, a young folk singer who
had just been signed by Sony Music and Dino his musical director. As the
conversation progressed, it appeared that the latter had been AnPu’s
keyboardist on her four albums. There isn’t such a thing as fortuitous
coincidence.
Words had reached me that AnPu had
decided to retire. That sounded as plausible as hearing that a bird was no
longer willing to fly.
“I wanted to retire from that pop
icon business and start anew under my real name” AnPu explained.
Zed attended the same high school as
she did and remembers a lively and very opinionated girl who wasn’t afraid to stand
out, be weird and different. Though older and wiser, she has retained those
qualities and being political is to her what a good makeup and hair are to most
of her female peers.
There was so much we wanted to share
and talk about. But somehow, there was no need to fill the voids or the
silences.
We both have plenty of projects we
wished to do together. I told her about my idea of having her star in the Shiny
Heart / Dirty Mind music video. Shooting would take place in September or
October…
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