Album Genre: Funk

The Family is a 1985 album released on Prince’s Paisley Park Records label by the band of the same name. The album consists of eight Minneapolis sound tracks but with a funk-jazz slant. Two of the tracks are instrumentals, and three are ballads; many feature string arrangements by Clare Fischer, marking the beginning of Prince’s … Read more

The Time is the 1981 debut album by The Time. The album proper was produced and arranged by Prince (using the moniker Jamie Starr) The Time produced three singles: “Get It Up”, “Cool” and “Girl”, with the first two charting within the top ten on the R&B charts.