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By Andy Price. As rear guard to one of the world’s most extroverted and absorbing performers, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman were the indispensable co-architects of Prince’s most hallowed period. Joining his band at the age of 19 when making the Dirty Mind album, Coleman lent her melodic, atmospheric keyboard to Prince’s ever-growing ...
Wendy Ann Melvoin (born January 26, 1964) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Prince as part of his backing band the Revolution, and for her collaboration with Lisa Coleman as one half of the duo Wendy & Lisa .
Apr 22, 2016 · April 22, 20169:40 AM. Prince and Wendy Melvoin perform live onstage in San Francisco on May 23, 1986. Ebet Roberts/Redferns. Prince wasn’t just one of the 20 th century’s great artists,...
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Apr 30, 2017 · The band that backed Prince during the Purple Rain era is on tour celebrating his music. Members Wendy Melvoin, Bobby Z. and Doctor Fink say it helps them — and audiences — to process...
Mar 6, 2017 · The Revolution's Wendy Melvoin looks back to the shock of Prince's death and ahead to the band's upcoming tour celebrating the late icon. Markus Akre for Rolling Stone. For years,...
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0. W. Melvoin live: Robert Georgeff. Melvoin onstage in 2017. As a guitarist backing Prince on the world-dominant Purple Rain along with Parade and Around The World In A Day, Wendy Melvoin helped crystallize a musical vision known as The Revolution.
May 9, 2023 · Acting as the rhythm guitarist for Prince on Purple Rain, Wendy Melvoin played a modified Rickenbacker 330 throughout her tenure with Prince and The Revolution.
