prince tribute

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA – Thursday night’s sold-out Prince tribute at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota was a long time in the making, but worth the months-long wait. Performers included icons Morris Day and the Time, Stevie Wonder, and Chaka Khan; original Revolution band mate Andre Cymone, members of the NPG, and Prince’s […]

  Fresh off her explosive performance at the 2016 BET Awards, Sheila E left it all on the stage as she paid a musical tribute to Prince, her friend and longtime collaborator. She talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about her new single, ‘Girl Meets Boy’ and reveals just how much preparation went into the […]

Sheila E. goes into great detail about the creative process behind her sizzling tribute to Prince for the BET Awards, an emotional effort that involved lots of moving parts, last minute additions and cancellations and a ton of tears. “I knew we were going to sit there and cry,” she tells Billboard of reconnecting with […]

D’Angelo was among the first set of artists announced earlier this month for the planned Prince tribute at Sunday’s BET Awards, but the singer ended up missing the show altogether. Ultimately, several tributes took place throughout the program, with The Roots, Stevie Wonder, Janelle Monae, Erykah Badu, Maxwell, Bilal and Sheila E tackling various Prince […]

The BET Awards — or “The Prince Tribute Show” — featured emotional and energetic performances from Sheila E., Stevie Wonder and Jennifer Hudson honoring the Purple One, along with political statements on issues ranging from racial injustice to the U.S. presidential election. Sheila E., jamming on the drums, singing and dancing without shoes, closed the […]

Madonna is dismissing critics of her tribute to Prince at the Billboard Music Awards with style. A day after her performance of “Nothing Compares 2 U” and duet with Stevie Wonder on “Purple Rain,” the pop singer took to social media Monday and posted a picture of herself in a purple boa with a flower […]