Photo: Prince & Tyka | By Jem Aswad, Variety | Tyka Nelson, a Minneapolis-based singer and Prince’s only full sibling, died Monday morning, a rep for Prince’s estate confirms to Variety. No cause of death was reported; she was 64.
Tyka was the daughter of John L. Nelson, a pianist who collaborated with Prince on several occasions, and Mattie Shaw Nelson. The news was first reported by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Nelson released four albums between 1988 and 2011 and was scheduled to hold her retirement and farewell concert last June, but became ill and the concert took place without her.
“I’m getting older,” Nelson told the Minnesota Star Tribune before the show, downplaying her musical ability. “I really wasn’t a singer. I’m a writer. I just happen to be able to sing. I enjoy singing.” She said she was writing a memoir.
Nelson’s last public performance was in Australia in 2018.
“She had her own mind,” Sharon Nelson, her sister, told the Tribune on Monday night. “She’s in a better place.”
Tyka Nelson’s survivors include her sons President and Sir, sisters Sharon and Norrine Nelson, and brother Omarr Baker.
Nelson was one of the six siblings and partial siblings who were ruled to be Prince’s legal heirs after the singer died of an accidental drug overdose in 2016. . . .
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