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Susannah Melvoin (born January 26, 1964) is an American vocalist and songwriter.Melvoin is best known for her association with Prince in the mid-1980s. Melvoin comes from a musical family and is the twin sister of musician Wendy Melvoin, sister of Jonathan Melvoin (former touring keyboardist with the Smashing Pumpkins), and daughter of jazz pianist (and former NARAS president) Michael Melvoin.
They agreed to become a new band called the Family, with Peterson renamed "St. Paul" as the frontman and bassist. Johnson and Benton reprised their familiar roles from the Time. Prince added Susannah Melvoin, the twin sister of Revolution guitarist Wendy Melvoin, [1] as a backing singer and keyboardist.
"The Beautiful Ones" was originally said to be written for Susannah Melvoin [5] (Revolution band member Wendy's twin sister) to woo her away from her then-boyfriend. [6] The timeline fits, as Susannah was seeing someone else when she met Prince in May 1983. The notion that the song was written for her was also confirmed by engineer Susan Rogers.
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 longstanding association with the Michigan -born composer-arranger. [2][3] A single was released for "The Screams of ...
Songwriter (s) Prince, Susannah Melvoin. Producer (s) Prince. " Starfish and Coffee " is a song performed by Prince, and written by him and Susannah Melvoin. It is the sixth track on his 1987 double album Sign o' the Times, [1] and was based on a true story about a girl named Cynthia Rose that went to the same school as Susannah and Wendy Melvoin.
Five of the eleven tracks on the album were co-written by Bobby Z., Wendy and Lisa's former colleague from the Revolution, who also co-produced the album with the duo. Wendy's twin sister, Susannah Melvoin (an extended Revolution member herself) co-wrote the track "Honeymoon Express". The album, released in the United States on August 24, 1987 ...
[1] It is believed that "If I Was Your Girlfriend" deals with the jealousy Prince felt at the close bond shared between then girlfriend/fiancée Susannah Melvoin with her twin sister Wendy. [2] Musically, the song features Prince's pitched-up, androgynous vocals over a sparse bass and drum machine pattern, punctuated by a keyboard line.
Wendy Melvoin's twin sister Susannah and Cole Ynda, Lisa's sister, contributed background vocal work to the record (as well as touring extensively with their sisters at the time) with k. d. lang adding background vocals to "Mother of Pearl".