21 Mar 2023

Music feature: Prince with Josh Ellery

From Afternoons, 2:20 pm on 21 March 2023

For today's music feature we focus in on the career and legacy of Prince.

Emerging in the late 1970s as a prodigy musician, he developed a reputation as a prolific virtuoso who wrote, produced, arranged, and performed his own music.

In his lifetime he released a whopping 42 studio albums, selling over 100 million records while raking in Grammys and even an Oscar for 'Purple Rain'.

Aside from the songs he was known for maintaining a level of mystique as an artist, rarely granting interviews despite his flamboyant stage persona.

Musicologist Josh Ellery joins Jesse to talk about his music and his life.

Prince died in April 2016.

Prince died in April 2016. Photo: Hardy Schiffler / picture alliance / DPA / AFP