Sue Ann Carwell was an early Prince protegée. He found her in 1978 and decided he was going to make her a star.
But by then, this teenage girl had already been at the heart of the Minneapolis music scene for years. I asked her about the origins of Minneapolis funk:
https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/the-origins-of-prince-and-the-minneapolis-sound/
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