Whether its the Time, Vanity 6, Apollonia 6, The Family, Mayte, Sheila E, Bria Valente, Jill Jones or someone else I haven't mentioned, I'm curious who is your favorite?

I think I'd have to go with Sheila E but man is this a hard choice to make.

May U live 2 the Dawn

Ave

For me: the Jill Jones album.

For me it would be Sheila E. It could be because she has a lot more material than the others.

Apollonia and Vanity.

The Time

Wendy & Lisa

I still get an enormous amount of pleasure from their solo albums and their more recent soundtrack work.

1st answer:any of the proteges from 1981-1988

2nd answer: the Time, Vanity 6,Sheila E. the Family

Jill Jones, Madhouse, Mazarati

Wendy & Lisa

The Time.

Mazarati. I saw 'em live in San Fran and they blew my mind.

SuperSoulFighter said:

Mavis Staples because she is an artist in her own right. All the others were just products created by Prince.

How is Mavis Staples a protege, when she was recording before Prince was born?

LittleBLUECorvette said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

SuperSoulFighter said:

Mavis Staples because she is an artist in her own right. All the others were just products created by Prince.

How is Mavis Staples a protege, when she was recording before Prince was born?

By extension, Sheila E had a career as a musical talent before her time with Prince, so I guess we really do need to better define the term "protege".

Food for thought I suppose...

The Time - very talented!!!

The Time, with The Family and Sheila E coming very close.

The Time

Pandemonium is my favorite assoicated artist album.

sexton said:

The Time

Pandemonium is my favorite assoicated artist album.

co-sign on The Time

and though I would not say Pandemonim is my fave AA album, I truly like it a lot, highly underrated, and I'm sad it usually gets bashed a lot in here

Averett said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

How is Mavis Staples a protege, when she was recording before Prince was born?

By extension, Sheila E had a career as a musical talent before her time with Prince, so I guess we really do need to better define the term "protege".

Food for thought I suppose...

She did. But most of us didn't know her until Prince put her out as a frontman with a band and wrote songs for her to perform.
Many of the people throught Prince's (protege) bands were in different levels of the industry before Prince.
the term protege still stands 4 what it is though. What we get with Sheila E even to this day is because of her period as a Prince protege (and that sure isn't a bad thing)

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Now I don't see Mavis Staples or Larry Graham as proteges. I don't think anyone that Prince gave a song or 2 to are proteges. Like Sheena Easton...
the Time, Vanity 6, Sheila E, the Family, Mazarati, Madhouse
these groups displayed Prince's musical vision via music style and association

Dancelot said:

sexton said:

The Time

Pandemonium is my favorite assoicated artist album.

co-sign on The Time

and though I would not say Pandemonim is my fave AA album, I truly like it a lot, highly underrated, and I'm sad it usually gets bashed a lot in here

Yes, I always feel the need to defend it when others say it's the worst Time album.

Slightly bias, The Time. Just saying.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

SuperSoulFighter said:

Mavis Staples because she is an artist in her own right. All the others were just products created by Prince.

How is Mavis Staples a protege, when she was recording before Prince was born?

exactly

I'ma go with Sheila too. Romance 1600 is a classic! She's my favorite drummer of his too. She be tappin' like a mofo . Lovesexy era boots get much play from me . I'm mad her planned '89 album was cancelled. I've been bumpin' Scarlet Pussy extended alot lately, glad it saw the light of day . Somebody come get this meow-meow off my leg . I almost shit when she popped up at the only Prince concert (only concert period actually ) I saw in 2010 .

The Time & Shelia E

Definitely the Time, for the first two Time albums alone, they were better than Controversy. Sheila E is a close second, but I also really like the Vanity 6 album.

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That is a surprisingly good record.

Whilst I genuinely love them all. If pushed I would have to say Ingrid Chavez. I think her album sounds fairly different for the usual Prince protege and her image is quite different. This may be due largely to the lack of heavy Prince involvement in the album which allowed Ingrid and Michael Koppleman to interestingly venture off into a new and different soundscape.

Vanity 6 & the Time

sexton said:

The Time

Pandemonium is my favorite assoicated artist album.

I love love love the Pandemonium album. I was only 6 or 7 years old when it came out but loved it then and have always loved it.

Followed by The Time of course has to be Sheila E., then Rosie Gaines. To me, the Diamonds and Pearls album couldn't had been the same without her.