{"id":803490,"date":"2020-01-26T19:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T02:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=942554"},"modified":"2020-01-26T19:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T02:10:28","slug":"watch-usher-team-up-with-sheila-e-and-fka-twigs-for-prince-tribute-at-the-grammys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-usher-team-up-with-sheila-e-and-fka-twigs-for-prince-tribute-at-the-grammys\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Usher Team Up With Sheila E. and FKA Twigs for Prince Tribute at the Grammys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/GettyImages-1202166728W.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/usher\/\" id=\"auto-tag_usher\" data-tag=\"usher\">Usher<\/a> recruited Sheila E. and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/fka-twigs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fka-twigs\" data-tag=\"fka-twigs\">FKA Twigs<\/a> for a tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/prince\/\" id=\"auto-tag_prince\" data-tag=\"prince\">Prince<\/a> at the 62nd annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/grammys\/\" id=\"auto-tag_grammys\" data-tag=\"grammys\">Grammys<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The artist \u2014 dressed in a bedazzled suit \u2014 performed an incredibly horny medley of \u201cLittle Red Corvette,\u201d&nbsp;\u201cWhen Doves Cry\u201d and \u201cKiss,\u201d flanked by the former Prince drummer. Twigs pole-danced for the first two songs, a skill that she trained for intensively for her incredible new album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/fka-twigs-magdalene-909901\/\"><em>Magdalene<\/em><\/a>. She joined Usher at centerstage for \u201cKiss,\u201d but unfortunately the avant-pop star didn\u2019t sing.<\/p>\n<p>The performance comes two days before the star-studded Prince tribute <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axs.com\/events\/389980\/letys-go-crazy-the-grammy-salute-to-princey-tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Let\u2019s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince<\/a>, <\/em>which will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center on January 28th. Sheila E. will serve as musical director, joined by songwriting duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Beck, Foo Fighters, Earth Wind &amp; Fire, Common, H.E.R., Gary Clark Jr., Mavis Staples, St. Vincent and others are set to perform the late musician\u2019s songs. <span>It will air on television in April.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very honored to be able to do this for so many reasons, but to be able to help celebrate the life of a dear friend and be a part of this and be musical director is awesome,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/prince-grammys-tribute-concert-934548\/\">Sheila E. recently told <em>Rolling Stone <\/em><\/a>of the tribute. \u201cIt\u2019s almost unfair to do a two-hour tribute to him \u2014 we could do a full week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/prince-sheila-e-usher-fka-twigs-grammy-tribute-942554\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usher recruited Sheila E. and FKA Twigs for a tribute to Prince at the 62nd annual Grammys on Sunday. The artist \u2014 dressed in a bedazzled suit \u2014 performed an incredibly horny medley of \u201cLittle Red Corvette,\u201d&nbsp;\u201cWhen Doves Cry\u201d and \u201cKiss,\u201d flanked by the former Prince drummer. Twigs pole-danced for the first two songs, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 14:57:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}