Sheila E. tells THR on the red carpet for the 2024 Grammys her reaction to the fan response for the Netflix documentary 'Greatest Night in Pop.' Plus, she reveals how she wants to collab with Bruno Mars next.
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00:00 How does it feel to be back here at the Grammys?
00:02 It's always great to be here. It's an amazing night and you know just to be able to see all these artists
00:09 and you know the nominees like congratulations to everyone. Music is just amazing.
00:14 So look at what music does, bringing everyone together. It's amazing.
00:18 I just watched The Greatest Night in Pop, the new documentary you're in, about when you recorded We Are the World.
00:23 What has the fan response to that documentary been like for you so far?
00:26 Oh my god, my phone has not stopped blowing up, really. Like from all over the world.
00:30 Like people are just texting, DMing me, sending messages, like writing on my website letters
00:37 and I just watched it and oh my god. No, it's been really incredible. I had no idea.
00:41 Because I hadn't seen the documentary until Monday. I didn't even know. Yeah.
00:47 What was your reaction when you first watched it on the big screen?
00:50 It was amazing. I loved the things that I didn't know about after I left and then towards the end I just cried.
00:59 What do you remember most about that night?
01:02 Well for one, most about that night was how nervous I was to play the American Music Awards
01:10 because it was my first time ever being a solo artist and that was a big deal because Dick Clark,
01:15 it was a big deal that I wanted them to turn the lights out because I had my glow sticks
01:20 and it's like you have to turn the lights out in order for them to work and they're like we can't do that.
01:24 It's national television. So they waited if you watched that, they waited until they went on to turn the lights off.
01:30 So it was a big deal and then you can't look in the front because you see all of these amazing people
01:34 that were in the audience. You get nervous and it's like oh my god.
01:38 So that was scary enough and then going to there, but I knew a lot, maybe half of the artists there at We Are The World,
01:47 at the taping recording, but it was a lot of fun.
01:52 The whole story of that night is just really unbelievable and it's hard to imagine that we'd be able to get artists today
01:58 together like that after a show like the American Music Awards or the Grammys.
02:02 It wouldn't happen. No. No. Everyone has too many, you've got like ten people hanging out with you
02:09 and to be told stay in the other room, just the artists, that's not going to happen.
02:14 I know. That was an interesting detail that no publicist, no managers in the room, just the artists.
02:19 Yeah, no. And it was so cool because there was no drama really.
02:22 I mean there were some things that would happen, but we were all tired.
02:25 I had been up three days before I got there and we were still out on the Purple Rain tour.
02:30 So by four o'clock or so I left. I was done.
02:34 So many iconic artists are featured in the documentary and were on the song,
02:37 but who are some new artists today that you've been loving their music?
02:42 Oh man. I'm not going to pick one or two. Of course I love Billie Eilish,
02:47 but I'm not going to pick one or two because I'm really excited about the new music that's coming out
02:53 and the change and I love that, you know, people being created and it's exciting.
02:58 We're not staying at the same place. Things are moving. So that's what I love about it.
03:03 And you have a new song coming out. What can you tell me about it?
03:06 Yeah. Gloria Estefan sang on it. It's a Celia Cruz song, a famous Celia Cruz song called Bemba Colorado
03:13 and it comes out February 23rd and the album comes out April 5th.
03:18 It's the first time I've ever done a salsa record, so I'm really excited about it because I've never done that.
03:22 I have Ruben Blades, Roberto Santarosa, Luis Enrique, Victor Manuel, Tony Sukar, Mimi Sukar, my dad, my mom.
03:29 I have a lot of people.
03:31 And you've done so many amazing collaborations over the years,
03:34 but who's one artist that you haven't gotten the chance to collaborate with yet that you'd love to?
03:38 Probably Bruno Mars. We've talked about it. Yeah, we're like, we got to do something.
03:43 So we're still talking about it. I don't know how long. I'm waiting on him now.
03:46 It's the balls in his corner.
03:48 his corner.
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