{"id":2446789,"date":"2019-07-25T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=310019"},"modified":"2019-07-25T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T22:00:00","slug":"ceelo-green-discusses-prince-as-his-fairy-godfather-the-profound-results-of-repetition-and-his-return-to-belly-up-aspen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/ceelo-green-discusses-prince-as-his-fairy-godfather-the-profound-results-of-repetition-and-his-return-to-belly-up-aspen\/","title":{"rendered":"CeeLo Green discusses \u201cPrince\u201d as his fairy-godfather, the profound results of repetition and his return to Belly Up Aspen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are certain things that CeeLo Green remembers to be synonymous with Aspen: the altitude and the airport.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always a little rocky landing down in Aspen and the altitude is an adjustment, but fortunately, we\u2019ve always landed safely and enjoyed ourselves,\u201d Green, the five-time Grammywinning entertainer known for worldwide hits like \u201cCrazy\u201d and \u201cF-k You.\u201d said in a recent phone interview.<\/p>\n

After having played New Year\u2019s Eve at Belly Up Aspen in 2012, Green will return for a summer show performing live to track with DJ Incrediboi on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Belly Up practically embraced me as extended family,\u201d he said. \u201cIt will be nice to go back and see the whole gang. I\u2019m sure that we will reacquaint and pick up right where we left off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Green\u2019s most recent single is \u201cInternacional,\u201d a genre-blending collaboration with Andr\u00e9 Truth and Juan M\u00e1gan released in February.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to do something daring and unique and try to find an entry point into the Latin market,\u201d he explained, \u201cbecause it is thriving. It was uncharted territory for me as an artist. I decided to just give it a shot to see what I could do and how effectively I could do it. It was an opportunity to do something for the first time.\u201d said Green.<\/p>\n

In a recent Forbes article, M\u00e1gan called Green \u201ca music icon, a legend that has written, produced and collaborated with hitmakers like Carlos Santana, Common, The Pussycat Dolls, The Black-Eyed Peas and Bruno Mars.\u201d Truth dubbed Green \u201cthis generation\u2019s soul father doing what he does best.\u201d<\/p>\n

The song \u201cF-k You\u201d \u2013 featuring Bruno Mars and dubbed \u201cForget You\u201d in its radio-friendly version \u2013 was a massive worldwide commercial success. Released in August 2010, the single made the top-10 in 13 countries and hit no. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Green compared that listening to the song now to drinking a cup of coffee: \u201cIt\u2019s a jolt of energy, it\u2019s vitality, it\u2019s life. It\u2019s connectivity with the crowd. It\u2019s become our song and we can all sing along to it word for word. It\u2019s truly now a relationship between myself and the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if he predicted that it would be such a massive success, Green immediately said no.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking, writing and recording with Bruno Mars was a very pivotal period in my life,\u201d he said. \u201cI was just very fortunate in terms of timing. It was such a surprise\u2014out of left field,\u201d<\/p>\n

As a judge on NBC\u2019s singing competition show \u201cThe Voice\u201d for three consecutive seasons, Green is a seasoned professional when it comes to giving advice to new musicians.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy advice is always to suggest that an artist give their plain English a poetic justice,\u201d he said. \u201cLife is basic training for whatever belief system that you put into practice as ritual or routine. You have to do that diligence because nothing guarantees result, but repetition. \u2026 Anything that you practice and that becomes your regiment, becomes your faith. If you\u2019re faithful about music and if you feel that faith in the people\u2014that they can be embracive and they can be optimistic about art, then there\u2019s only a matter of time. That\u2019s just a great way to live because life is literally a matter of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Any great artist has at least a couple different people who have influenced their journey. For Green, that would undoubtedly be Prince.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrince was like a fairy godfather,\u201d he said. \u201cPrince has been like a spirit animal for me. I can listen to his music repeatedly and know everything from a guitar riff to some little nuance in the back of an ad-lib. \u2026 I could just know everything that he did, and it will still give me that little tickle. He will forever be immortalized in that image and ideal because he\u2019s just far too much to discount. He\u2019s just a giant. He\u2019s mythical.\u201d<\/p>\n

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There are certain things that CeeLo Green remembers to be synonymous with Aspen: the altitude and the airport. \u201cIt\u2019s always a little rocky landing down in Aspen and the altitude is an adjustment, but fortunately, we\u2019ve always landed safely and enjoyed ourselves,\u201d Green, the five-time Grammywinning entertainer known for worldwide hits like \u201cCrazy\u201d and \u201cF-k […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 01:16:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}