The Family is tagged as: funk, prince, 80s, minneapolis funk, minneapolis The Family can refer to 4 different artists: an American R&B band, a British country/folk/blues band, a psychedelic blues/country/tropicalia band, and an Australian lo-fi electronica group. 1)The first being The Family that were a R&B band signed to Prince’s record label Paisley Park Records. The band has recently reformed under the name “F-deluxe,” and has a new download available on their new site, www.Fdeluxe.com. The band consisted of remaining members of The Time (Jellybean Johnson, Jerome Benton and St. Paul Peterson), Eric Leeds (brother of Prince’s tour manager Alan Leeds) and Susannah Melvoin, the twin sister of Wendy Melvoin, who was Prince’s guitarist in his band The Revolution and the other half of the duo Wendy & Lisa. The band’s material was composed entirely by Prince, with the exception of “River Run Dry”, which was written by Bobby “Z” Rivkin. Prince wrote and performed all the other tracks and simply overdubbed Paul and Susannah’s vocals and added saxophone by Leeds. The project turned out to be short-lived. Peterson opted to pursue his own career and Prince absorbed most of the remaining members into The Revolution (with the exception of Johnson, who went on to join the Fl... Read More About The Family Biography...  Send The Family ringtones to your cell
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