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Happy Birthday (12/13), Morris Day!
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Happy Purple Birthday (12/12), Sheila E!
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Prince's Sister Sells Off Portion Of Late Singer's Estate Amid Financial Woes
Prince’s sister Tyka Nelson has sold off a chunk of his estate, amid her ongoing financial woes.
According to court documents obtained by The Blast, the late singer’s sister has informed the court she has sold a portion of her one-sixth share of Prince’s estate. She explains, “I am one of the six (6) non-excluded heirs in these probate proceedings (the
"Estate"). I have the opportunity to consult with separate legal counsel and financial advisors and have been fully advised by my legal counsel and financial advisors of the rights I enjoy as an heir to the Estate and the legal, financial, and personal implications of entering into the Expectancy Interest Transfer Agreement.
Further, “I am aware of the terms of the Expectancy Interest Transfer Agreement. I know that I am selling a portion of my one-sixth (1/6th) share of the Estate and am entering into this transaction willingly and with an understanding of the nature of the transaction. I wish to sell my portion of my one-sixth (7 / 6th) share of the Estate in order to realize some value from the Estate before the completion of the Estate administration. Tyka sold her the interest to a third party company Primary Wave IP Fund. She wants the company to be involved in “all matters related to the Estate” now that they have an interest.
Primary Wave filed documents requesting the terms of the sale be kept sealed. They want to be sealed, “confidential information relating to Primary Wave’s transaction with an heir, Tyka Nelson (“Ms. Nelson”), whereby Ms. Nelson agreed to transfer a portion of her one- sixth (1/6th) interest in the estate of Prince Rogers Nelson (“the Estate”) to Primary Wave through an Expectancy Interest Transfer Agreement.
Read more: theblast.com/c/singer-prince-sister-tyka-nelson-se…
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Prince’s ‘1999’: How the Artist Leveled Up on His Breakthrough LP
With the release of a new box set devoted to the album and its era, Prince’s guitarist Dez Dickerson and engineer Peggy McCreary look back on the Purple One’s revolutionary genius
When audio engineer Peggy McCreary was recording Prince for his 1999 album, she didn’t immediately recognize his genius. “I had no idea who he was when I first started working with him,” she recalls. She had met him around the time he made his third LP, Controversy, and unlike Prince, who was in his early twenties, she had a string of hit albums in her list of credits, including Van Halen’s debut and Elton John’s 21 at 23. She watched Prince jump from instrument to instrument, recording and mixing songs all by himself in a day, but it wasn’t until the record was done and she saw him on a stage that the full scope of his talent became clear to her.
“For a Christmas present, he sent for me to come out on the road to see him, all expenses paid,” she remembers. “It was New Year’s Eve in Dallas for the 1999 tour. That’s when I totally got it. I had never seen anybody give so much to an audience. I got weak in the knees. I was by the soundboard and the soundman got me a chair. Then I was literally up screaming with the crowd and dancing, and it was like, ‘Oh, my God. This guy’s incredible.’ That’s when I realized who I was working with.”
The 1999 album, which came out just before Halloween in 1982, was also when the world caught onto Prince. He’d scored a hit with “I Wanna Be Your Lover” in 1979, but his Dirty Mind and Controversy albums, with their explicitly sexual lyrics, failed to make waves in the mainstream. With 1999, his most explicit desire was to write hits. Despite being a double LP, 1999 became a Number Seven hit and went platinum within a few months on the strength of pop anthems like “1999,” “Little Red Corvette,” and “Delirious.”
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/prince-1…
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Prince's luxury Toronto home is up for sale... again
Got an extra 17 million bucks lying around?
If you missed your chance to buy Prince's former Canadian home when it went up for sale a couple years ago, you're in luck — if you have nearly 17 million dollars to spare.
The sprawling 14,280 square-foot mansion, which sits in Toronto's exclusive Bridle Path neighborhood (often referred to as "Millionaires' Row"), is available for $16.9 million.
You might remember the last time it hit the market — April 2017 — but back then, it was about four million bucks cheaper.
Read more: bringmethenews.com/.amp/minnesota-lifestyle/prince…
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Happy Princegiving...JSN hopes your Dinner With Delores is amazing For You and The Family. Gett Off any political topics otherwise it might cause Chaos and Disorder. That could be quite Scandalous! Anyway, remember to Kiss all of The Beautiful Ones in your family. I hope your food remains Soft and Wet.
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Photographer sues Prince estate for copyright infringement
A photographer who collaborated with Prince during the final few years of his life claims that the late musician’s estate has been exploiting her work without licence. Said photographer, Madison Dube, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the estate and its associated companies last week.
The lawsuit states that Dube “is a gifted photographer and artist whose work, in 2013, caught the attention of one of the most talented musicians and entertainers of our time, Prince Rogers Nelson, more commonly referred to as Prince”.
Between 2013 and his death in 2016, Prince “became a mentor and friend to Ms Dube. He also hired her on many occasions during that time to provide freelance work, including photography, graphic design, film/videography, voice and other creative”.
None of those projects involved Dube assigning any of the rights in her photography or designs to the musician, the lawsuit adds, because “throughout his life, Prince maintained a strong edict that an artist should retain control over his or her artistry”.
However, the photographer claims, since Prince’s death his estate has used her images on advertising, merchandise, record releases and other promotional material, all without her permission. And, she adds, they knew they were using her work, because in some cases she has been credited as the photographer, and in others a rep for the estate reached out to try to negotiate a licence.
“Ms Dube now brings this action to assert her rights guaranteed under the Copyright Act”, the lawsuit goes on, “and to preserve the integrity of her work, currently being commercialised by defendants and used for mass-marketing, mass-produced sales and advertising, without her consent and contrary to the intent behind the creation of those works”.
The photographer wants an injunction banning future use of her images by the estate and damages for all past uses
Source: completemusicupdate.com/article/photographer-sues-…
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Prince Photographer Randee St. Nicholas Shares 25 Years of Stories
Long-time Prince photographer and friend Randee St. Nicholas spent 25 years photographing the Purple One. The result is My Name Is Prince, a gorgeous — and massive — book of photos and memories of the icon. St. Nicholas went through 14 such images with Rolling Stone and told us the stories behind the snapshots. “I think of him every day,” she wrote of Prince in an excerpt. “I still expect him to call and give me an hour’s notice to jump on a plane or meet him somewhere and be ready to shoot. I guess like so many others I am not really ready to let him go. I have been haunted by the commitment we made to the book we originally set out to make 10 years ago, because I promised him we would follow through with our in-depth retrospective … and because I never want to let him down.”
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-pictures/prince-p…
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Happy Purple Birthday, Terry Lewis! (11/24)
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From 'The Ladder' to 'The Cross,' Prince's Legacy Endures Through His Friends and Music at a Town Hall Tribute
Spike Lee holds Prince’s guitar aloft at Prince: The Beautiful Ones—a Celebration of his Memoir, Life and Art at the Town Hall on Nov. 18, 2019
Watch NYC Prince Book Release Party: www.theroot.com/from-the-ladder-to-the-cross-princ…
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Celebrating the life and music of Prince with thoughts from Tyka Nelson, Mayte Garcia, Wendy and Lisa, BrownMark, Dr Fink, Jerome Benton, Susannah Melvoin, Sheila E, Andre Cymone, Morris Day, Dez Dickerson, and more.