Sheila E!!!

I really really REALLY hope Prince will bring Sheila E with him to Way Out West. Unfortunately it does not look like he’ll be doing that at the moment. But I’m still hoping he’ll change his mind and take her with him to Gothenburg. She has played with Prince for many years and if you want to know more about her or see more clips you can find her on this blog on a list over the coolest women in music.

Today: Sheila E plays a song written by Prince for her – Leader of the Band

Prince count down......

I know the theme of this blog is "coolest women in music", but the thing is... I'm going to see Prince in about 70 days. So, therefore I’m turning this blog into a Prince count down blog, temporarily. I’ll post live-clips of Prince performing, other artists doing covers of Prince’s songs or songs written by Prince, one clip each day until 11^th of August.

Clip of the day: Prince doing a cover of a song he has written.

The song Cool was originally released by The Time with lead singer Morris Day.
The albums were recorded by Prince and Morris Day and even though Morris Day is lead singer of the Time, many Prince-fans claim it is Prince’s voice you hear in some parts of the songs. Check out the original and judge for yourself.

Linnea Henriksson

Linnea has been kind enough to link to my blog on her blog (and now I’ll return the favour, check out her blog here). But that is not why she’s finally featured on my blog. This blog is all about cool female musicians, and Linnea is cool. Very cool. For those of you who has managed to avoid all Swedish media the last few months I’ll give you a short background: Linnea Henriksson is a sparkling young singer from Halland who found her way in to jazz music, formed the band Prylf with four friends, released the album Kind of Green and in the fall of 2010 she charmed the Swedish people when she added extra colour to Swedish Idol.


If you haven’t seen her live, take the first chance you get to go see her. I especially want to recommend everyone to go see her band – Prylf. All five members add energy to the performance and their playful appearance on stage is almost contagious for those standing in the audience. I challenge you to stand still on a Prylf-concert.

Hindi Zahra

Zahra Hindi was born in Morocco where she also spent her childhood living with her mother. When she was 15 years old she moved to her father in Paris. Though she is of French Moroccan descent most of her songs are in English. She is a self-taught instrumentalist and has written songs since she was 18, though it was first in 2005 she released her first EP. In 2009 she released her self titled album – Hindi Zahra.

Tegan and Sara

To continue on the theme: Identical Twins….  Tegan and Sara are identical twin sisters from Canada who formed the indie band Tegan and Sara in 1997. Through the years the band has released six studio albums. Walking With a Ghost appears on their fourth album So Jealous.