Music fans are geeking out over the news that Prince – the prolific musician who died in 2016 – will be releasing a new album in April titled Welcome 2 America.
Songs from the album will debut this Sunday, April 11, on 60 Minutes.
Of course, Prince himself is not releasing the album. Instead, his estate will be taking care of those earthly duties while The Purple One watches over the project in spirit.
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.
“And I remember asking him about it. And he says, ‘Well, we’ll just have to revisit that down the line.’ Because he was like onto the next project,” Hayes said.
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The 60 Minutes cameras go inside Prince’s Paisley Park studios in Minnesota during the report.
Paisley Park is where the infamous “Vault” of stored Prince music was kept hidden away for decades. Rumor has it the vault holds over 8,000 unreleased songs.
Because Prince died with no heirs or a will – a sister and five half-siblings were named overseers, but they have been doing a lot of legal squabbling over time.
Fortunately for Prince fans, the estate has still been able to release roughly one new album per year since His Royal Badness died.
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