So what is this you ask?
I was happily at the end of a conference I had organised at the Four Seasons in San Francisco... it was heading towards midnight on the last night and the gala dinner was going off! We had had 5 of the top chefs in San Francisco sharing their wonderful food and everyone was on the dance floor trying to dance off all the food and fabulous wine that had been flowing all night.
The band was Napata and the Kisses - but more affectionately known as Napata and the Chocolate Kisses - tall beautiful Amazonian African American women backed by a fabulous seven piece band. Midnight came and the band were due to finish... it would have killed the night so they agreed to do another 40 minute set but asked for a 10 minute break... no problem!
Now in the meantime my husband and one of the conference speakers had been planning to get up on stage if they got the chance and this was it! Up they jumped - well, the speaker hobbled up as he had a leg in plaster from a soccer injury! The band organised mics for them both and then, much to their joy, the band and the backing singers (the Chocolate Kisses) said they would stay and back them! They broke into Mustang Sally and the 100 people left on the dance floor went off!
I was happily at the end of a conference I had organised at the Four Seasons in San Francisco... it was heading towards midnight on the last night and the gala dinner was going off! We had had 5 of the top chefs in San Francisco sharing their wonderful food and everyone was on the dance floor trying to dance off all the food and fabulous wine that had been flowing all night.
The band was Napata and the Kisses - but more affectionately known as Napata and the Chocolate Kisses - tall beautiful Amazonian African American women backed by a fabulous seven piece band. Midnight came and the band were due to finish... it would have killed the night so they agreed to do another 40 minute set but asked for a 10 minute break... no problem!
Now in the meantime my husband and one of the conference speakers had been planning to get up on stage if they got the chance and this was it! Up they jumped - well, the speaker hobbled up as he had a leg in plaster from a soccer injury! The band organised mics for them both and then, much to their joy, the band and the backing singers (the Chocolate Kisses) said they would stay and back them! They broke into Mustang Sally and the 100 people left on the dance floor went off!
They were brilliant! Bit of background info... my husband was in a band at uni but that was 30+ years ago (their biggest claim to fame was as support band for 10CC in front of 10,000 10CC fans! Which was bizarre in itself for an alternative rock band!).
It was almost a shame when Napata finished her break (although she and the band were brilliant). My husband had just ticked something off his bucket list - to sing with a large band and have gorgeous, African American girls with fabulous voices backing him! He could almost die happy - if it wasn't for all of the other things left on his bucket list... but more of that another time...
The joy of a bucket list tick!
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