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With first posthumous album, Prince pierces the American condition
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25/07/2021 - 03:16 A new album from the late Prince, shown here performing during the Super Bowl halftime show in 2007, is set for release July 30 JEFF HAYNES AFP/File 4 min
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Prince s estate will soon issue a completed record from the mercurial artist s storied music vault, the first never-before-heard album released since the musician s shock death five years ago. Welcome 2 America a 12-track album finished in 2010, but shelved for reasons unknown in the famous vault at Prince s Paisley Park compound near Minneapolis offers a prophetic window into social struggles at today s forefront, delving into racism, political division, technology and disinformation.
Prince s posthumous music album to be released soon
Sun, Jul 25, 2021
NEW YORK: Prince s estate will soon issue a completed record from the mercurial artist s storied music vault, the first never-before-heard album released since the musician s shock death five years ago. Welcome 2 America a 12-track album finished in 2010, but shelved for reasons unknown in the famous vault at Prince s Paisley Park compound near Minneapolis offers a prophetic window into social struggles at today s forefront, delving into racism, political division, technology and disinformation.
Melding urgent lyricism with languorous funk, the pop shapeshifter Prince sings of America as the land of the free / home of the slave.
Prince’s estate will soon issue a completed record from the mercurial artist’s storied music vault, the first never-before-heard album released since the musician’s shock death five years ago.
‘Welcome 2 America’ a 12-track album finished in 2010, but shelved for reasons unknown in the famous vault at Prince’s Paisley Park compound near Minneapolis offers a window into social struggles at today’s forefront, delving into racism, political division, technology and disinformation.
Melding urgent lyricism with languorous funk, the pop shapeshifter Prince sings of America as the “land of the free / home of the slave.”
The artist, who died at 57 on April 21, 2016 following an accidental fentanyl overdose, could not have known that in the years following his death his beloved home city would explode in furor and protest after the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man.
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