{"id":1933,"date":"2019-03-29T21:44:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T21:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prnalumni.org\/members\/?page_id=1933"},"modified":"2019-04-05T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T19:19:00","slug":"spotlight-cassandra-oneal-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prnalumni.org\/members\/spotlight\/spotlight-cassandra-oneal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: Cassandra O&#8217;Neal (Pt. 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1933\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1933-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1933-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1933-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"spotlight-intro panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1933-0-0-0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">STORIES FROM THE PARK<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>PRN Alumni Foundation is comprised of the former employees of Prince, Paisley Park, Paisley Park Records, PRN Productions, NPG Records, Love4OneAnother, any and all of Prince\u2019s companies spanning his impressive nearly 40 year career.<\/p>\n<p>There have been, quite literally hundreds of us in Prince\u2019s employ. The Foundation represents our collective voice.<\/p>\n<p>We are musicians, engineers, managers, lighting directors, wardrobe designers, stylists, makeup artists, drivers, bodyguards, admin staff, valets, drivers (and more!)<\/p>\n<p>This \u2018Stories From The Park\u2019 chronicle is a way for our colleagues of all tenures and job types to share a little bit of Prince\u2019s magic with you through our individual voices.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoy getting to know us\u2026we feel as if we\u2019ve known you, Prince\u2019s fans (fam) forever &lt;3<\/p>\n<p>With love and gratitude,<br \/>\n<strong>PRN Alumni Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prnalumni.org\/members\/spotlight\/\" class=\"button news-button\">Read More Spotlights<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1933-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1933-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-image panel-first-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-image so-widget-sow-image-default-8b5b6f678277-1933\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n\n<div class=\"sow-image-container\">\n\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/prnalumni.org\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cassandraoneal.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prnalumni.org\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cassandraoneal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/prnalumni.org\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cassandraoneal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/prnalumni.org\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cassandraoneal-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prnalumni.org\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cassandraoneal-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prnalumni.org\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cassandraoneal-692x692.jpg 692w, https:\/\/prnalumni.org\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cassandraoneal-630x630.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" title=\"Cassandra O&#039;Neal\" alt=\"Cassandra O&#039;Neal\" loading=\"lazy\" \t\tclass=\"so-widget-image\"\/>\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1933-0-1-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-last-child\" data-index=\"2\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Spotlight: Cassandra O\u2019Neal (Pt. 2)<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h1><em>\u201cTHIS GIG WILL BE OVER SOME DAY\u2026 WHEN IT IS, YOU ALL SHOULD BE TEACHING\u201d<\/em><\/h1>\n<h3>Cassandra O\u2019Neal\u2019s Paisley Journey from Prince Fan to Piano Prodigy to Professor <\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Interviewed by writer:  Tony Kiene <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Part 2:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h2>\u201cGOD WAS PREPARING YOU FOR THIS MOMENT\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>With some down time scheduled for the band, Cassandra made her way back to Los Angeles where, just before Thanksgiving, she received a call from her sister, \u201cMom is in the hospital.\u201d Cassandra flew cross-country to Charlotte, North Carolina, to be with her mother. She was released from the hospital that Wednesday and was able to spend Thanksgiving Day at home with family.<\/p>\n<p>Cassandra\u2019s mother beamed with pride during their time together. She reminded her youngest daughter that all those afternoons and evenings Cassandra kept her awake practicing Prince are what brought her to this moment in her life. \u201cGod was preparing you for this moment. To see my little girl living out her dream on stage is my dream come true too.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Cassandra responded by saying, \u201cMom, if it wasn\u2019t for you, I wouldn\u2019t be who I am. You are my best friend. My biggest fan.\u201d On that Saturday, Cassandra returned to Los Angeles. It would be the last time she saw her mother Janet, who passed away a few days later.<\/p>\n<p>Cassandra spent the first few months of 2010 still grieving. She needed something occupy her time and wasn\u2019t yet sure what Prince had on tap yet for the new year, so she starting working a little around Los Angeles. Then, out of the blue, Cassandra was offered a spot on another tour. She desperately wanted to keep playing with Prince, but felt she had to be part of something now.<\/p>\n<p>She reached out to Morris to explain her feelings. Always one to understand, he said to her, \u201cI can\u2019t pretend to know what it is your feeling, but, I get it.\u201d He implored her to \u201chang in there\u201d adding that soon, they\u2019d all be \u201cworking like crazy.\u201d \u201cBesides,\u201d Morris concluded, \u201cPrince loves you.\u201d That was enough to help Cassandra hold on, a decision that would soon pay off in a big way. <\/p>\n<h2>WELCOME 2 THE WORLD<\/h2>\n<p>By May 2010, Prince brought the band back together, first for a couple of one-off performances in New York City and West Hollywood, before hitting the European festival circuit that July. Later that fall, the band, now retooled, set out on the short 20Ten Live tour followed by the Welcome 2 America Tour (subsequently paving the way for the Welcome 2 America Euro Tour, Welcome 2 Canada, Welcome 2 Australia, and even Welcome 2 Chicago), which kept them on the road for the better part of two full years. Turns out Morris was right.<\/p>\n<p>The initial changes to the new line-up saw the return of both John Blackwell (drums) and Renato Neto (keyboards), as well as Ida Nielsen on bass. Occasionally Sheila, Maceo Parker, Andy Allo, and Maya and Nandy McClean (The Twinz), would make appearances as would any number of artists (including Prince vets and others) on any given night.<\/p>\n<p>There are literally dozens of stories Cassandra can recite from those days on the road. One thing that always comes to mind, however, was how Prince\u2019s universe was a completely self-contained operation. \u201cHis vision, discipline, and drive were a sight to behold,\u201d says Cassandra, \u201cPrince ran everything down to the smallest detail\u201d \u201cLights, music, hair, clothes, choreography, dinner time, all of it. That\u2019s incredible. Most folks pay others to do that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another thing that awed Cassandra at is how Prince was able to see things in people that they themselves couldn\u2019t. For example, one day during rehearsal Prince was playing \u201cAutomatic\u201d on Morris\u2019 rig. As she walked by Cassandra started singing. Prince stopped, \u201cCassy. You\u2019re getting a mic.\u201d She assured Prince that wasn\u2019t necessary. Nevertheless, at the next rehearsal, Cassandra had a mic set up on her rig.<\/p>\n<p>By this time, Cassandra felt like her relationship with Prince was of a close friend, a brother even. It hadn\u2019t take long for her to consider her other bandmates as brothers and sisters, but with Prince things came a bit more gradually. \u201cThe first year or so he really didn\u2019t say much to me outside of rehearsals.<\/p>\n<p>But now, Cassandra felt she was part of a tight-knit musical family and one of her favorite activities was to watch the video of that night\u2019s show with Prince and the band, assuming there was no aftershow. As she recollects, \u201cWe were somewhere in Europe, and I was the first to walk into his hotel suite. Prince had already started the video and we sounded so good, I asked \u2018Is that us? That sounds like the record.\u2019\u201d Prince replied, \u201cYeah, that\u2019s from earlier. All I know is ya\u2019ll were in there tonight!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Prince often used multiple cameras, the band also had the privilege of seeing the crowd\u2019s reaction to their performance. \u201cTo see people smile, laugh, cry,\u201d marvels Cassandra, \u201cWhat could be better. To know that you brought joy to someone, that you helped to move their spirit.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That being said, while the finer details associated with many of those late night viewings may escape her today, there is one such night that Cassandra is certain she will never forget. <\/p>\n<h2>22\/7<\/h2>\n<p>On Friday, July 22, 2011 (forever known as 22\/7 in Norway), Prince and the band touched down in Oslo for a pair of shows at the Oslo Spektrum. That afternoon, a right-wing terrorist detonated a bomb only a few blocks from the arena. The perpetrator then proceeded to the nearby island of Ut\u00f8ya where he opened fire on participants at a summer youth camp. When the attack was over, 77 people had lost their lives (33 of whom were under the age of 18) and 329 were injured (at least 67 severely).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we wanted to stay,\u201d says Cassandra, \u201cThey got us out the next day after having postponed the shows until early August.\u201d So, after previously scheduled gigs in The Netherlands, Germany, and Ireland, they returned to Oslo on August 2nd for the first of two concerts. <\/p>\n<p>Several times that first night Prince brought fans on stage to dance. And while the emotion in the room that evening may have a times seemed both cathartic and solemn, there was nothing to prepare Prince and the band for what they experienced when watching the video later that night. <\/p>\n<p>As she reminisces, Cassandra explains that their hope that night was to spend a few hours \u201cbringing light and positivity\u201d to an audience and a community desperately in need of both. And, she\u2019s sure they were able to do that. But for all of them to watch that video in Prince\u2019s hotel room \u2013 to see people crying, hugging one another, searching for something, anything to heal their souls \u2013 was a bit overwhelming. \u201cThere was not a dry eye in the room,\u201d remembers Cassandra.<\/p>\n<h2>BACK TO MONTREUX AND BEYOND<\/h2>\n<p>After winding down 2012 with a couple of shows in Los Angeles, Prince kicked off 2013 with an intimate three-night run at The Dakota in downtown Minneapolis. It was during that final night that he introduced his latest project 3rdeyegirl. Then, on the heels of a spring tour that featured the all-girl trio, it was back to Switzerland for three more nights at the 47th Annual Montreux Jazz Festival.<\/p>\n<p>While keeping Ida, Donna, and Hannah in the line-up for Montreux, Prince added an 11-piece horn section as well as a couple of other musicians. Liv, Shelby, and Elisa remained on vocals whereas Cassandra \u2013 who was now able to experience the festival she bowed out of four years earlier - was back on keys and vocals. In 2014, Cassandra, joined Prince and 3rdeyegirl for what would be her final \u201cproper tour,\u201d Hit and Run Part II.<\/p>\n<p>In late 2015, following a bit of a hiatus from Minneapolis, Cassandra received another call from Prince. \u201cHe was performing at a private New Year\u2019s Eve party on the island of St. Barts,\u201d she says, \u201cHe wanted me to play.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>After the performance, Cassandra found herself hanging out with the likes of Paul McCartney among other celebrities. \u201cIt was a great night.\u201d When the party was over, Cassandra heard Prince\u2019s voice, \u201cCassy. We missed you. We missed you a lot a lot around here. It\u2019s good to have you back.\u201d Cassandra echoed his sentiments and \u201cblew him a kiss.\u201d She didn\u2019t realize it at the moment, but that would be the last time she ever saw Prince. <\/p>\n<h2>PROFESSOR O\u2019NEAL<\/h2>\n<p>Of all the knowledge, experience, and encouragement she collected from Prince over the course of seven years, a myriad of things stick out. One such pearl of wisdom is the time that Prince told her, \u201cThis gig will be over someday and when it is, you all should be teaching.\u201d Cassandra took that advice to heart and didn\u2019t waste much time pursuing a second, albeit related vocation. In 2013, not long after relocating to New York, Cassandra enrolled in Manhattan\u2019s legendary New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the 19th of April, 2016 \u2013 almost three years into her studies \u2013 she was on her way to class. All of a sudden, Cassandra\u2019s thoughts (as they often would) turned to Prince. But this time something felt wrong. She\u2019d heard about the cancelled shows in Atlanta as well as the emergency landing in Moline the Friday before. \u201cSo, right there on the train,\u201d laments Cassandra, \u201cI prayed for him, asking God to keep him strong, to protect him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, while in between classes, Cassandra received a call from her keyboard tech Julius DeBerry. \u201cIs it true?,\" he asked. \u201cIs what true?,\u201d she replied. \u201cThey're saying Prince is dead.\u201d Thinking it had to be a joke, Cassandra began thumbing through her phone where she noticed a Facebook post from Bernadette Cooper of Klymaxx that read, \u201cOh No. Not Prince too.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Still certain that it couldn\u2019t be true, Cassandra found a television and turned to CNN where the first thing she heard was that unmistakable chorus to \u201cPurple Rain.\u201d She knew he was gone.<\/p>\n<p>Cassandra\u2019s phone began to vibrate \u201clike crazy.\u201d Then her Facebook page \u201cblew up.\u201d As she spent the rest of the day commiserating with friends and bandmates, Cassandra felt as though she was stuck in some sort of cloud. \u201cI didn\u2019t cry, I didn\u2019t move, I didn\u2019t do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the ensuing days, Cassandra was asked to do a number of interviews including one with ABC News. Yet it was during her own Facebook Live stream that her emotions became too much to bear. She started by letting everyone know she was alright. Cassandra went on to thank those that had shared their prayers and concerns. After a few more thank-you\u2019s and I-love-you\u2019s, she spoke the words, \u201cAnd to Prince\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when it hit me,\u201d she says, \u201cThat\u2019s when I started to cry.\u201d Fighting through her tears, Cassandra thanked Prince for being her teacher, friend, brother, and most of all, for \u201callowing me to be part of something so great, so real.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Cassandra graduated from The New School with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and today teaches music at Columbia College Chicago, where she shares with her students the insight, intellect, and expertise she\u2019s gained in more than 25 years as a professional musician. When they ask, Cassandra\u2019s happy to talk specifics about her time with Prince, but occasionally likes to say (as do the kids themselves), \u201cGoogle me baby.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Looking toward the future, Cassandra holds dear the fact that as long as she has \u201cmemories of Prince,\u201d she will never run out of things to share with others. \u201cI miss him so much. But he\u2019s always in my heart and in the music I play.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"members\/spotlight-cassandra-oneal-1\/\" class=\"button news-button\">Read Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a9 Tony Kiene & PRN Alumni Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRN Alumni Foundation is comprised of the former employees of Prince, Paisley Park, Paisley Park Records, PRN Productions, NPG Records, Love4OneAnother, any and all of Prince\u2019s companies spanning his impressive nearly 40 year career. 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