Prince's 'Welcome 2 America' puts faith and politics front and center
A little over five years ago, the funk-rock icon Prince died, at the age of 57, from an accidental overdose of fentanyl. Much of the music he ...
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A little over five years ago, the funk-rock icon Prince died, at the age of 57, from an accidental overdose of fentanyl. Much of the music he ...
"Welcome 2 America" is the first complete, previously unreleased record to come out since Prince died in 2016. And it's a stunner. Incredibly, "Welcome 2 America" manages to be as relevant, or maybe even more relevant, today than when it was recorded, and promptly shelved, in 2010. Most of the songs have been unheard until now. Confronting themes of racial justice, equality, big tech and just what it means to be human, "Welcome 2 America" feels like the soundtrack for the years since Prince's untimely death. It's almost as if Prince knew "Welcome 2 America" would mean more in 2021 than it mi...
Prince's previously unreleased 12-tune, politically charged album, will be released July 30 via Legacy Recordings. – File Photo: Tribune News Services After a series of deluxe reissues of three of Prince's biggest albums of the 1980s, his estate is exciting hardcore fans with the long-awaited emergence of the previously unreleased Welcome 2 America album from 2010. The 12-tune, politically charged album, which includes One Day We'll All B Free and a cover of Soul Asylum's anthem Stand Up and B Strong, will be released July 30 via Legacy Recordings, it was announced Thursday. To trumpet t...
By Zach Seemayer Entertainment Tonight Five years after Prince's untimely death, fans will soon be getting never-before-heard music from the late icon. The singer's estate is set to drop his previously unreleased album, Welcome 2 America. The album, due out on July 30, was recorded at Prince's Paisley Park studio in 2010, but shelved and placed in the vault shortly after being completed. In the wake of his death on April 21, 2016, the singer's estate has delved into re-releasing some of the singer's biggest hits, and new versions and iterations of hi...
Lost Prince Album ‘Welcome 2 America’ Arrives In July Apr 8, 2021 Prince recorded a 12-track album entitled Welcome 2 America at his Paisley Park Studios in 2010 but never released the album. That will change on July 30 when the late musician’s estate finally unveils the LP via Legacy Recordings. Welcome 2 America’s title track has been shared ahead of the album’s release. The album is said to document “Prince’s concerns, hopes, and visions for a shifting society, presciently foreshadowing an era of political division, disinformation, and a renewed fight for racial justice”...