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Sheila Escovedo (b. Dec. 12, 1957) is a drummer and singer best known for her work with Prince. Drumming runs pretty big in her family: her father Pete is a famous percussionist, her uncle Alejandro drummed for various punk bands before starting a solo career, her other uncle Coke played with Santana, her other other uncle Javier founded the seminal punk band The Zeros, and Tito Puente was her godfather.It's little surprise then that Sheila took up drumming and quickly became really good at it, playing with such luminaries as George Duke, Marvin Gaye, Alphonso Johnson, Herbie Hancock and Lionel Richie before her early twenties.Prince first met Sheila when attending a concert where she was playing with her dad. He quickly brought her into her entourage, where she contributed drums and percussion in the studio and provided vocals to "Let's Go Crazy"'s famous B-side, "Erotic City" (and some other vocals here and there, like the "transmississippirap" on "It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night"). She secured herself the position of drummer for Prince after The Revolution disbanded, but left Prince in 1989 as their romantic relationship ended. This split has notably been free of the really bad blood that other splits engendered, and the two collaborated occasionally for many years afterwards.While Sheila did attract attention for her vocals on "Erotic City", she quickly proved she was her own person: while Prince did produce her first two solo albums, she got some co-writing credits and added her drumming all over the place. Most notably, Sheila at first broke from the very explicit "personas" that had been assumed by Prince's previous Girl Groups: her lyrics were decidedly PG-rated, dealing with love (not Intercourse with You, at least not yet) and sung in a pleasant, girl-next-door voice. In fact, many of the funk-pop songs existed solely for the sake of lots and lots of percussion solos. These two albums, The Glamorous Life and Romance 1600, were well-received and spawned two hits, "The Glamorous Life" and a duet with Prince entitled "A Love Bazaar". Sheila also starred As Herself in Krush Groove (1985), a fictionalized retelling of the founding of Def Jam Recordings, in which she performed "A Love Bazaar" and "Holly Rock." Prince was noticeably less involved with the Self-Titled Album Sheila E., letting David Z. produce the album and writing only a few songs.Sheila's solo albums after leaving Prince's organization were New Sound Albums somewhat, introducing Latin and jazz influences into her upbeat pop-funk. She took a long break from her solo career after Sex Cymbal, after she suffered a collapsed lung and other health problems, and played with various other musicians (including being part of three versions of Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band).In The New '10s she founded her own record label, Stilletoflats, and released two more albums on it.Discography: | |
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