PRINCE
WELCOME 2 AMERICA (2010)
© THE PRINCE ESTATE - PHOTO CREDIT MIKE RUIZ; JOSH BRASTED/FILMMAGIC
SHELBY Johnson – better known to Prince fans as Shelby J – remembers being puzzled when she got the lyric sheet for “Son Of A Slave Master”, a blazingly outraged tune from Prince’s unreleased 2010 album ‘Welcome America’. “All the verses had my name on them,” she says. “Can this be right? He wanted me to sing all the verses then he would come in on the chorus. He just liked the way my voice sounded there. As a supporting vocalist, you always think you’re just going to be supporting, but Prince was very generous with his light.”