Prince’s vault of unreleased music is rumored to rival the archives of Gram Parsons or Tupac Shakur. The Minneapolis superstar’s estate promised the first of regular releases beginning in 2021,
The Prince Estate release a sneak peek into Welcome 2 America album
The Prince Estate in partnership with Legacy Recordings presents the track Born to Die from the previously unreleased Prince album available at the end of July.
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Jun 3, 2021
June 3, 2021 – New York, NY – The Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, are excited to share the previously unreleased track
“Born 2 Die” from
Welcome 2 America, an album that Prince recorded in 2010 and which will be released from his legendary vault in standard and Deluxe editions on July 30.
“Born 2 Die” had a global premiere on the BBC 6 Music Breakfast Show in the U.K. this morning, with Prince’s long-time musical director Morris Hayes joining host Gemma Cairney to introduce the track. The song is now available on all streaming platforms.
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Death is not an end, but a beginning. Prince Rogers Nelson believed that in his bones. So it was that the night Prince died, a new era, the era of the vault, began.
By the time Prince was 40, he had written and recorded more songs than any artist could possibly release in a lifetime. Material, it seems, is the musical genius’s burden. To house all of his unreleased recordings, Prince constructed a vault in the basement of his Paisley Park complex in the suburbs of Minneapolis. Legend has it that as many as 8,000 songs are stored in the vault. For diehard Prince fans, the vault has been like an insurance plan a way of guaranteeing the artist’s eternity, despite his premature death. At the same time, the vault has
CBS s
60 Minutes gave us our first preview of an unreleased Prince album that will finally be getting released, more than ten years since it was recorded.
It s been five years since Prince s very untimely death. It s been eleven years since the Welcome 2 America album was recorded. For whatever reason, Prince recorded this album right before the 2010
Welcome 2 America tour and then shoved the entire album in the vault Prince wrote and recorded the album before embarking on his 2010 Welcome 2 America tour, but he didn t perform songs from it. He never said why , Prince s longtime keyboardist, Morris Hayes, told 60 Minutes correspondent Jon Wertheim.
April 12, 2021
It’s mostly forgotten now, but Prince announced his retirement in 1993. After establishing himself as one of the key musical talents of the 1980s, producing a sequential body of work that’s rivaled only by Stevie Wonder a decade earlier, he released a greatest hits compilation and told fans that he was done.
My friends and I were devastated young teenagers, Prince posters still on our bedroom walls, too young and naive to understand public relations and corporate strategy. But it became clear later that this was an early strike in Prince’s battle with his record company Warner Bros to secure creative freedom and, crucially, ownership of his master tapes.