Prince Remembered

The Current's music reporter and Local Show host, Andrea Swensson, covered Prince in the last few years of his life. She talked with Current Morning Show hosts Jill Riley and Brian Oake about one of her first interactions with Prince.

David Rivkin was a producer on Prince's 'Purple Rain' album. He talked to MPR News host Tom Weber about Prince's musical style, his personality and his contributions to the Minneapolis Sound.

Susan Rogers talked to MPR News host Cathy Wurzer about working as a sound engineer for Prince from 1985 to 1989, when she recorded classic albums like "Purple Rain" and "Sign of the Times." She is now an associate professor in the Music Production and Engineering Department at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Jimmy Jam is best known for his work producing songs with R&B hitmakers Janet Jackson, Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey, Usher, George Michael, Chaka Khan and others. But before all that, he was a member of the band the Time, which opened for Prince in the early days of the Minneapolis Sound. He remembered Prince as a virtuoso and a workhorse.