SAPPHIRE PRIDE

March 6, 2026

SAPPHIRE PRIDE, the fifth single from the long-awaited album PRAIRIE PRINCE COLOURS and PASSIONS, is available on your favorite platform.
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SAPPHIRE PRIDE credits
Prairie Prince – Vocal, Traps, Log Drum, Bamboo, Water Gong, Wave Drum
Chris von Sneidern – Samples
Jennifer Burnes – Bass Guitar
Jim Thomas – Guitar
Diana Mangano – Siren Vocal
Ralph Carney – Tenor Sax, Vocal

The True Story of SAPPHIRE PRIDE

After my dear sister Helen passed from many years fighting nuclear palsy/Parkinson’s disease, there was a wake and send off for her out under the Golden Gate Bridge into the wide Pacific per her last request. Family and friends boarded a memorial craft supplied with flower petals and her ashes, to scatter out in the wind and down into the Sapphire sea. This track is an ode to her legacy and embraces the grand love and admiration for my sister with her love for the Colour Sapphire (her birth stone) and the mighty blue ocean. Passions were many and deeply attributed in her personality. Pride dominated them in her strength and dedication to work, art, research, and family. Continuing the composition’s theme around water, the pride of the ocean, and my early admiration for surf music where I honed my early drumming techniques listening to Dick Dale and The Ventures. I engaged my colleagues Jennifer Burnes and Jim Thomas from the Mermen to collaborate on the finale of the suite; recorded by Chris von Sneidern in his tiny Tape Vault Studio crammed together like in a submarine. In one if my many travels to exotic destinations, a trip to the South Pacific Island of Bora Bora was arranged by Dana Magnin, the new bride of our host, the self-proclaimed king, Tautu Tautaha whose mother was once a Tahitian queen. The drumming experienced there inspired homage in Polynesian rhythms used with pride in connecting the sections of this composition. The piece is about the ever-changing oceans, salvation of sea life, and all that encompass it. Song and cries of whales can be heard here. For the late Ralph Carney of Tom Waits fame, homage is made with his voice and horn of a sea shanty past.

SAPPHIRE PRIDE Lyrics

Sapphire
Azure
Powder blue
Ultramarine
(oh, ah, ooh, ah)
Pride blue
Helen lives amongst the waves
Sapphire ripples and mermaids’ nipples bounce and bob to the beat
The ancient Tahitian call, Rapa Nui
Bora Bora 2020
Tautaha, Tautu, Tautaha
Rose petals drift ashore to rest on sapphire glass and
To command orders from the Royal Navy horn, revelry for miles
The osprey floats in the air on a prayer
Olympic range of azure smiles on her sapphire soul
Bowling with Ralph Carney, down at the Pacific Sea Bowl

Prairie Prince!
(Primal scream)