Jitterbugging for Jesus

“But I’m here to tell you / There’s something else/ The after world / A world of never ending happiness / You can always see the sun, day or night”

— Lyrics by Prince

Prince, another great showman and music icon, R.I.P., all too soon.

“Prince, born Prince Rogers Nelson on June 7, 1958, was a man bursting with music -— a wildly prolific songwriter, a virtuoso on guitars, keyboards and drums and a master architect of funk, rock, R&B and pop, even as his music defied genres. In a career that lasted from the late 1970s until the arena tour this year, he was acclaimed as a sex symbol, a musical prodigy and an artist who shaped his career his way, often battling with accepted music-business practices.

“Prince recorded the great majority of his music entirely on his own, playing every instrument and singing every vocal line. Then, performing those songs onstage, he worked as a bandleader in the polished, athletic, ecstatic tradition of James Brown, at once spontaneous and utterly precise, riveting enough to open a Grammy Awards telecast and play the Super Bowl halftime show. Often, Prince would follow a full-tilt arena concert with a late-night club show, pouring out even more music.”

— from the New York Times obit