The New Power Generation

The New Power Generation
Prince with founding member Levi Seacer Jr., 1993
General information
origin	Minneapolis ( Minnesota ), United States
Genre (s)	Funk , jazz , pop music , R&B , rock music
founding	1990, 2016
resolution	2015
Website	www.newpowergeneration.net
Founding members
Vocals, guitar , electric bass , drums , piano , keyboard	Prince († 2016)
dancer	Damon Dickson
dancer	Kirk Johnson
Rhythm guitarist	Levi Seacer Jr.
Drums	Michael Bland
Keyboard, backing vocals	Rosie Gaines
Electric bass	Sonny Thompson
Keyboard	Tommy Barbarella
Dancers, rappers	Tony Mosley
Current occupation
Backing vocals , percussion , dancers	Damon Dickson
Drums	Kirk Johnson
Lead singer	MacKenzie
Bandleader , vocals, keyboard	Morris Hayes
Vocals, acoustic guitar	Tony Mosley
former members
Dancer, backing vocals	Mayte Garcia (1992-1998)
Drums	John Blackwell († 2017) (2000-2004, 2010-2012)
trombone	Greg Boyer (2002-2008)
Singing, backing vocals	Liv Warfield (2009-2014)
Backing vocals, guitar	Andy Allo (2011-2012)

The New Power Generation , or The NPG and The NPG , is an American funk and soul band . It was founded in 1990 by Prince in Minneapolis , Minnesota and supported him as a backing band at his concerts and studio recordings until 2015 . Prince changed the line-up of the band members more often, so in the 21st century there were no longer any musicians from the original formation.

In contrast to Prince's previous backing band The Revolution in the 1980s, The New Power Generation released three studio albums under their own name with Goldnigga (1993), Exodus (1995) and Newpower Soul (1998).

In October 2016, six months after Prince's death, keyboardist Morris Hayes organized a start-up of The New Power Generation. Hayes is now the band leader and was a member of Prince's backing band from 1992 to 2012, the lead singer has been the American MacKenzie since 2018. The band has not yet released their own studio album and the setlist for live concerts consists mainly of songs composed and published by Prince from 1982 to 1995.

Band history

The first years (1990-2000)

At the end of 1990, Prince founded a new backing band in Minneapolis called "The New Power Generation", which at the time consisted of the following eight members:

• Damon Dickson (born 1961) - dancer
• Kirk Johnson (real name: Kirk Anthony Johnson; born September 22, 1964 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) - dancer
• Levi Seacer Jr. (born April 30, 1961 in Richmond , California) - rhythm guitarist
• Michael Bland (born March 14, 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) - drums
• Rosie Gaines (real name: Rosie Mary Gaines; born June 26, 1960 in Martinez , California) - keyboard, backing vocals
• Sonny Thompson (civil: Lloyd Sonny Thompson; born January 5, 1956) - electric bass
• Tommy Barbarella (real name: Thomas R. Elm; * 1962 in Minneapolis , Minnesota) - keyboard
• Tony Mosley (real name: Anthony Tyrone Mosley; born September 7, 1962 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) - dancer, rapper

On January 6, 1991, The New Power Generation debuted in Minneapolis at the Glam Slam music club, which was owned by Prince at the time but ceased to exist in 2006. He played a concert with his new backing band that served as a rehearsal for the Rock in Rio music festival on January 18, 1991. The album Diamonds and Pearls , released on October 1, 1991, was the first studio album on which Prince named his backing band The New Power Generation. After the end of the Diamonds-And-Pearls tour in July 1992, the Rosie Gaines left the original formation. As a replacement Prince hired the keyboardist Morris Hayes (real name: Morris Kevin Hayes; born November 28, 1962 in Jefferson County , Arkansas) in August . He also integrated the dancer Mayte Garcia into his backing band, whom he married in 1996.

In June 1993 Prince finished the album Goldnigga in collaboration with The New Power Generation , but Warner Bros. Records did not release it because the major label asked Prince to take a break. During the European tour called Act II Show from July 26, 1993 to September 7, 1993, Prince and Tony Mosley had a dispute. Nothing was publicly known about the content, but Prince split up with the trio Tony Mosley, Kirk Johnson and Damon Dickson, also known as "The Game Boyz", after the tour ended. In 1994, Prince Levi appointed Seacer Jr. as chairman of the record label for NPG Records , but Seacer left NPG Records in late November 1994 for no reason.

The New Power Generation released the album Exodus on March 27, 1995 . This album was released under Prince's label NPG Records only in Australia, England and some European countries; in the US, Warner Bros. refused to publish it. Prince himself acted on the album under the pseudonym Tora Tora and composed all the songs on the album. He only wrote the single Get Wild together with bassist Sonny Thompson. As Tora Tora, Prince only appeared in disguise - his head was completely covered by a red veil. From a commercial point of view, Exodus was not very successful.

On April 1, 1996, an official press release announced that Mayte Garcia was pregnant. As a result, she only appeared as a guest on The New Power Generation and in June 1996 Prince replaced the cast of The New Power Generation almost completely; only Morris Hayes remained in the band. Founding member Tommy Barbarella was asked if he wanted to continue playing in the backing band, but he turned down Prince's offer. Kirk Johnson, also one of the founding members of The New Power Generation, brought Prince back. Sheila E. recommended Prince guitarist Kat Dyson and bassist Rhonda Smith; Dyson previously played with Cyndi Lauper , David A. Stewart and Sly & Robbie, among others . Smith worked with Canadian musicians and won, among other things, the Juno Award . Both Dyson and Smith are from Minneapolis. Prince also hired guitarist Mike Scott. The rapper Doug E. Fresh , the singer Marva King and the harmonica player Sugar Blue support The New Power Generation at some live concerts, but were not officially part of the backing band.

Kat Dyson left The New Power Generation in 1998, while Prince Marva King became a permanent member. The four musicians Candy Dulfer , Chaka Khan , Doug E. Fresh and Larry Graham appeared at live concerts, but were not officially part of The New Power Generation. On June 30, 1998, The New Power Generation's last album, Newpower Soul , was released and was distributed worldwide through the BMG Music Publishing label .

Marva King appeared at a few concerts in 1999, but was no longer officially part of the band. Larry Graham replaced Rhonda Smith on electric bass and the female percussionist Estaire Godinez was brought into the band by Prince. She previously played in a band called TC Jammers. From June 1999 the keyboardist and trained gospel singer Kip Blackshire also belonged to The New Power Generation. He was proposed to Prince by Morris Hayes after listening to Blackshire demo tapes. In 1999, The New Power Generation consisted of the following six members:

• Estaire Godinez - percussion
• Kip Blackshire - keyboard and backing vocals
• Kirk Johnson - drums
• Larry Graham - electric bass
• Mike Scott - guitar
• Morris Hayes - keyboard

In September 2000 Prince renewed the cast of The New Power Generation; he hired drummer John Blackwell, who previously played in the band with Patti LaBelle and who Prince met in July 1999.

The years 2001-2004

Drummer John Blackwell
(* 1973, † 2017)

In November 2001, Prince changed the cast of The New Power Generation on several positions. He had already brought guitarist Mike Scott back into his backing band in April. Prince also took on the Brazilian keyboardist Renato Neto in the band, who played in the 1990s in the E-Train Band, the touring band of Sheila E. Neto founded his own band called Straitjacket in 1999. His musical roots lie in jazz , pop music and contemporary R&B .

Prince has worked with bassist Rhonda Smith and Maceo Parker for years. On the one-nite-alone tour in 2002, either saxophonists Candy Dulfer and Maceo Parker alternated or played together in the band. Trombonist Greg Boyer previously appeared on Prince's studio album The Rainbow Children (2001).

2003 Prince involved an additional keyboard player in his backing band; Stanley "Chance" Howard was a member of The Time and the Minneapolis-based band Conversation Piece. The New Power Generation consisted of the following eight members on the Musicology Tour in 2004 :

• Candy Dulfer - saxophone and backing vocals
• Chance Howard - keyboard and backing vocals
• Greg Boyer - trombone
• John Blackwell - drums
• Maceo Parker - saxophone
• Mike Scott - guitar
• Renato Neto - keyboard
• Rhonda Smith - electric bass and backing vocals

In 2005, Prince did not tour.

The years 2006-2010

In 2006 Prince cast his backing band again; Drummer Cora Coleman-Dunham and bassist Josh Dunham are married to each other. The dancers Maya and Nandy McClean are twins and appear as "The Twinz". When Prince gave the concert series called 21 Nights in London: The Earth Tour in 2007 , The New Power Generation consisted of twelve members:

• Cora Coleman-Dunham - drums
• Greg Boyer - trombone
• Josh Dunham - bass
• Lee Hogans - Trumpet
• Maceo Parker - saxophone
• Marva King - backing vocals
• Maya McLean - dancer and backing vocals
• Mike 'Philly' Phillips - alto saxophone , tenor saxophone and vocoder
• Morris Hayes - funk keyboard
• Nandy McClean - dancer and backing vocals
• Renato Neto - jazz keyboard
• Shelby J. - backing vocals

Harmonica player Frédéric Yonnet

In 2009 Prince brought harmonica player Frédéric Yonnet into the band, who - just like Sheila E. - played the first part of the 20th tour in the summer of 2010 . He also hired the background singers Olivia Leann Warfield and Elisa Fiorillo-Dease; Fiorillo-Dease's birth name is Elisa Fiorillo and already worked with Prince in 1990, who composed five songs for her album I Am at the time . She took the last name of her husband, who died in May 2019. In the fall of 2010 of Prince's second part of the 20Ten tour, The New Power Generation consisted of the following nine members:

• Cassandra O'Neil - keyboard
• Elisa Dease - backing vocals
• Ida Kristine Nielsen - electric bass
• John Blackwell - drums
• Liv Warfield - backing vocals
• Morris Hayes - keyboard
• Renato Neto - keyboard
• Sheila E. - percussion and vocals
• Shelby J. - backing vocals

Drummer John Blackwell died of a brain tumor on July 4, 2017 at the age of 43 .

Welcome 2 America Tour (2010–2012)

From December 15, 2010 to September 26, 2012, Prince traveled around the world with The New Power Generation on the Welcome 2 America Tour. From June 30, 2011 to August 17, 2011, they performed in Europe, with Liv Warfield from July 26, 2011 no longer being able to participate in the tour due to a foot injury. In May 2012 Prince engaged The Twinz Maya and Nandy McClean for eight concerts in Australia, who had already participated in his 2007 concert series 21 Nights in London: The Earth Tour. He had also included Andy Allo in his backing band and brought guitarist Mike Scott back into the band, in place of Renato Neto and Sheila E.

The New Power Generation (2013-2015)

From 2013 to 2015, The New Power Generation consisted of the following eight members, whereby the trio Donna Grantis, Hannah Ford-Welton and Ida Kristine Nielsen were also involved in the backing band 3rdEyeGirl founded by Prince in 2012 :

Bassist Ida Kristine Nielsen

• Andrew Gouché (real name: Andrew Winston Gouché; born May 27, 1959 in South Los Angeles , Los Angeles) - electric bass
• Cassandra O'Neil (real name: Cassandra Louise O'Neil; born January 17, 1973 in Copiague, New York ) - keyboard
• Donna Grantis (born September 28, 1986 in Mississauga , Canada) - guitar
• Elisa Dease (real name: Elisa Fiorillo; born February 28, 1969 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania) - Backing Vocals
• Hannah Ford (real name: Hannah Ford-Welton; born June 29, 1990 in Louisville , Kentucky) - drums
• Ida Kristine Nielsen (* 1975 in Aarhus , Denmark) - electric bass
• Liv Warfield (real name: Olivia Leann Warfield; born July 10, 1979 in Peoria , Illinois) - Backing Vocals
• Shelby J. (real name: Shelby Marie Johnson-Allen; born September 10 in Greensboro , North Carolina) - backing vocals

Occasionally - in addition to The New Power Generation - an 11-piece brass group performed at Prince concerts, consisting of exclusively male members. Saxophonist Marcus Anderson said after Prince's death in 2016: “He wanted to start a brass section with me, Maceo Parker and Trombone Shorty , but then changed his mind and went one step further. In the end, there were 11 of us - the biggest brass section I've ever played in! "

• Adrian Crutchfield - saxophone
• BK Jackson - saxophone
• Joey Rayfield - trombone
• Keith Anderson - saxophone
• Lynn Grissett - Trumpet
• Marcus Anderson - saxophone
• Nick Marchione - trumpet
• Phil Lassiter - Trumpet
• Roy Agee - trombone
• Steve Reid - trumpet
• Sylvester Onyejiaka - saxophone

This means that a total of 20 musicians occasionally played live on stage at Prince concerts.

Last concert with Prince on January 1st, 2016

The last concert that Prince performed with his backing band The New Power Generation took place on January 1, 2016. At that time he gave a private concert for Roman Abramowitsch in his house in Saint-Barthélemy . Prince's backing band consisted of the following five members:

• Cassandra O'Neal - keyboard and vocals
• Donna Grantis - guitar
• Ida Kristine Nielsen - electric bass
• Kirk Johnson - drums
• Liv Warfield - vocals

Prince then went on his Piano & A Microphone tour as a solo performer from February 16 to April 14, 2016. He died on April 21, 2016 in his Paisley Park studio in Chanhassen , Minnesota.

Start-up (October 2016)

In October 2016, six months after Prince's death, keyboardist Morris Hayes organized a start-up of The New Power Generation. From now on, Hayes is the band leader and only involves musicians with whom Prince worked together during his lifetime. The debut of the newly founded The New Power Generation was on October 13, 2016 in Saint Paul in the Xcel Energy Center . At that time, a tribute evening was held in honor of Prince, in which Ana Moura , Bilal , Chaka Khan , Doug E. Fresh , Jessie J , Judith Hill , Mayte Garcia , Morris Day and The Time , Tori Kelly and Stevie Wonder also took part. Apart from Hayes himself, he integrated the following three founding members of the original formation as the regular cast of The New Power Generation:

• Damon Dickson - percussion , backing vocals, dancer
• Kirk Johnson - drums
• Tony Mosley - vocals and acoustic guitar

In addition, the following former Prince musicians occasionally appear at live concerts by The New Power Generation:

• Chance Howard - Keyboard, member of The NPG from 2003 to 2004
• Donna Grantis - guitar, member of Prince's band from 2012 to 2016
• Homer O'Dell - guitar, member of the band Mint Condition, and the only musician Prince didn't play with
• Ida Kristine Nielsen - e-bass, member of Prince's band from 2010 to 2016
• Keith Anderson - saxophone, member of The NPG Hornz, Prince's brass band at the time, from 2012 to 2015
• Levi Seacer Jr. - rhythm guitarist, member of Prince's band from 1987 to 1993
• Lynn Grissett - trumpet, member of The NPG Hornz, Prince's brass band at the time, from 2012 to 2015
• Michael Bland - drums, member of The NPG from 1990 to 1996
• Mike Scott - guitar, member of Prince's band from 1996 to 2001, 2004, 2006 and 2012
• Mono Neon - electric bass, member of Prince's band in 2015
• Rhonda Smith - electric bass, member of Prince's band from 1996 to 2004 and 2009
• Sonny Thompson - electric bass, member of The NPG from 1990 to 1996
• Tommy Barbarella - keyboard, member of The NPG from 1990 to 1996

Current creative phase (since 2017)

The New Power Generation hired changing guest singers in 2016 and 2017; Prince's former school friend, singer and bassist André Cymone (born June 27, 1958), singer and keyboardist Kip Blackshire and the accompanying singers Shelby J., Marva King and Liv Warfield were part of some concerts as so-called "special guests". On April 23, 2017, on the first anniversary of Prince's death, the band performed at a tribute concert in Chanhassen at Paisley Park Studio, and in June and July 2017 they toured Europe , including the Montreux Jazz Festival and North Sea Jazz Festival and Super Bock played Super Rock .

The Virginia- born American MacKenzie has been the lead singer of The New Power Generation since 2018 . In the same year the band played concerts in the USA, Japan, Australia and Europe, for example in Lörrach at the Voices Festival . In 2019 The New Power Generation gave concerts in the USA and Europe again, but the band has not yet performed live in Germany or Austria.

Discography

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1993	Gold Nigga NPG Records	DEnvDE	ATnvAT	CHnvCH	UKnvUK	USnvUS	First release: August 31, 1993 Main singer of the album: Tony Mosely Sales via concerts and homepage sales at that time : + 50,000
1995	Exodus NPG Records / Edel Records	-	-	CH34 (2 weeks) CH	UK11 (5 weeks) UK	USnvUS	First released: March 27, 1995 Main singer on the album: Sonny Thompson Sales: + 70,000
1998	Newpower Soul NPG Records / Sony Music Entertainment	DE34 (6 weeks) DE	AT24 (8 weeks) AT	CH22 (11 weeks) CH	UK38 (3 weeks) UK	US22 (8 weeks) US	Initial release: June 30, 1998. Main singer on the album: Prince Sales: + 400,000

The New Power Generation on Prince albums

• 1991: Diamonds and Pearls
• 1992: Love Symbol
• 1993: The Hits / The B-Sides
• 1994: Come
• 1995: The Versace Experience (Prelude 2 Gold)
• 1995: The Gold Experience
• 1996: Girl 6
• 1996: Chaos and Disorder
• 1996: Emancipation
• 1999: The Vault… Old Friends 4 Sale
• 2002: One Nite Alone… Live!
• 2004: The Slaughterhouse ( download album)
• 2007: Planet Earth

EPs

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1998	Come On Remixes NPG Records / Sony Music Entertainment	-	-	-	UK65¹ (1 week ) UK	USnvUS	Initial release: October 16, 1998 only as a maxi-single released ¹ singles chart

More EPs

• 1995: Get Wild Remixes
• 1995: The Good Life Remixes

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1995	Get Wild Exodus	-	ATnvAT	CHnvCH	UK19 (6 weeks) UK	USnvUS	First published: March 20, 1995 only released in some European countries
	The Good Life Exodus	-	ATnvAT	CHnvCH	UK29 (3 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 13th 1995 not released worldwide
	Count the Days Exodus	-	ATnvAT	CHnvCH	UK79 (1 week) UK	USnvUS	First published: September 25, 1995 only released in some European countries
1997	The Good Life ( re-release ) Exodus	DEnvDE	ATnvAT	CHnvCH	UK15 (5 weeks) UK	USnvUS	First published: June 23, 1997 decoupled in UK only

More singles

• 1993: 2gether , only released as a promo single - from the album Gold Nigga
• 1994: Super Hero (featuring The Steeles) - from the soundtrack to the movie Blankman
• 1996: Girl 6 - from the album Girl 6
• 1998: The One , only released as a promo single - from the album Newpower Soul

Internet singles

From 2001 to 2006, the following singles could only be purchased via Prince's then website NPG Music Club.com and did not go on sale. The War was already sold on a previous Prince website but was added to the range of NPG Music Club.com.

year	Title music label	Remarks
1998	The War NPG Records	First published: July 21, 1998 only on compact cassette and released as CD single. Live recording June 20, 1998 in Prince 'Paisley Park Studio
2001	Peace / 2045: Radical Man NPG Records	First release: April 14, 2001 only released as CD single with double A side , both songs are also on Prince's album The Slaughterhouse (2004)
	The Daisy Chain / Gamillah NPG Records	First release: April 14, 2001 only released as CD single with double A-side The Daisy Chain is also on The Slaughterhouse (2004) Gamillah is also on the Prince album The Chocolate Invasion (2004)

Soundtracks

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1994	Ready-to-wear Columbia Records	-	AT32 (3 weeks) AT	-	-	US29 gold (18 weeks)US	First published: December 6, 1994 February 3, 1995: Gold (500,000+) Contribution from The New Power Generation: Get Wild Song is also available on Exodus (1995)

More soundtracks

• August 9, 1994: Blankman , contribution from The New Power Generation: Super Hero

literature

• Mobeen Azhar: Prince 1958–2016: His life in pictures and text. Edition Olms, Oetwil am See / Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-283-01265-6 , OCLC 951825985 .
• Uptown: The Vault - The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince. Nilsen Publishing, Linköping 2004, ISBN 91-631-5482-X , OCLC 186521364 .

Web links

• Charts Germany , Media Control Charts
• Chart Masters , Prince records sales worldwide (as of 2018)
• Discogs , overview of the discography of The New Power Generation
• Princevault.com , information about The New Power Generation

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