he wrote songs for chaka khan and sheila e. a prolific song writer. how does one measure his talent and legacy? prince answered that question himself ♪ nothing compares nothing compares to you ♪ >>> thank you so much for

he said one time the phone rang and he answered and it was chaka khan. that's how he met her. he was doing a phone prank. he didn't move. never left minneapolis. he was in new york a lot, always here. >> still doing tons of live shows. always a performer. >> listen, he would do a live show for three hours and then leave and go to a club that night, same night. you never seen anyone quite like this. >> not to end on a downer, did you have any clue things were wrong with him health wise? >> the thing that really bothers me about it is the prince i know was like super healthy, vegan, wasn't an abuser of drugs or alcohol. he lived right, you know. he was clean. he looked young and looked really healthy and vibrant. the whole thing is just very mysterious to me. >> good to be here, l.a. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you. >> i appreciate it, guys. >> "purple rain" will be one of prince's greatest legacies. here is nbc's joe fryer.

one he wrote for chaka khan and it's good. ♪ chaka khan let me rock you let me rock you that's all i♪ >> lyrics are great. ♪ do you feel for me the way i feel for you want to love you want to hug you want to feel you too ♪ >> is he singing? >> here it comes. here we go. go, chaka! >> is that stevie wonder? >> here it comes. hit it. ♪ baby baby when i look at you i get a warm feeling inside ♪ there's something about the things you do ♪ >> we sang this, we used to do skits in our sorority. just a reminder, you can listen to us on sirius xm channel 108 and i have a show on monday and wednesday. >> hi. come here. you and your crown. >> this is joanne's son. >> hi, mackie. how are you? >> why do you have a crown on your head? >> because he's the king. >> mackie's going to see "hamilton" tonight. >> he knows every word to the songs. how old are you? >> 10. >> 10 years old, knows all the words. we're excited. will you come back and tell us what it's all about? >> yeah. >> okay. cool. >> we have makeover results after this. this is 100% useful for a 100% fresh mouth.. what's it like to not f

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chaka khan.e wrote a huge song, justin timberlake and one of many who wrote an r&b debt to prince and he tweeted a message about how strong it was and to bring it back to my hometown of oakland and prince had a huge following and the paramount changing its sign to honor the artist. >> not surprisingly, prince artist's and songs dominating tonight as people tune in and remember, raj? hard to understand all of this. thank you, scott. many connections prince had to the bay area including records one of the albums in the late 1970s in sausalito. our coverage of prince continues on nightly news. lester holt is here in the bay area. >> hi, raj. we're in town working on a fascinating tech story for next week, but you're right, we're covering the prince story on "nightly news." his impact clear around the world and we'll have interviews including a revealing one with matt lauer and we're gathering reaction from a stunned music industry and that's all we hear from san francisco. raj and jessica, let's sen

in 1984, he wrote songs for chaka khan and sheila e. both landed in the top ten that year.e once said. like the bangles' "manic monday." a prolific songwriter. so how does one measure his talent and legacy? prince answered that question himself. ♪ nothing compares nothing compares to you ♪ >> an incredible talent. >>> thank you so much for watching. i'm tom llamas. i hope to see you right back here tomorrow. for david and all of us here, good night. >> the set was funky, fun. bathed in purple light. >> fans remember what it was like to see a legend in person. >>> why police hope flywood could help them find a missing 2-year-old girl. >> the warriors looking for a win without their star. >>> it could be hard to wake your kids in the morning. the bay area school district that could make changes to help high school students get more of what they need. >>> he broke new ground. the bay area and world remember prince. >> awesome. living legend. >> when he comes he brings it. >> people e-mailing me and texting me from all over the world saying he was supposed to be immortal. is it

. >> like cindy lauper chaka khan. >> nothing compares to you. sinead o'connor.on >> we can go on.n. >> wisdom is probably biggest super prince fan and i i immediately thought of youatel when i heard this.en it was so shocking to me.o m thank you annie by the way. way so shocking to hear this. t i kept saying this can't ben't b true and called you for f verification. >> and somebody in the barberbe because i was barber shope i wab getting my haircut and theyai ad walked in and said prince isprii dead. and i was like what? we all w at some point are going to gng have to go but when you thinking about someone like some this you just think about abo their music and i know it'swt' wrong but you think they'renk going to live forever but we buw know that's not true. t >> a rare morning weirdni w morning with his family, hisis s fans. more on the life and legacy ofli prince as the morningfening continues all right. r >> we want to let you know k this morning's fox5 spring concert will feature a tribute u to prince. p the band secret society willty play several of their

music and making music and sort of the generosity of making it for other people, with other people, chaka khangave a career to. >> the life force thinking about aids and poor people, making that band the tightest thing in the universe and the life force watching people go crazy, he knew he could do it with a flick of his heir or guitar solo. >> even with that, there was an intimacy to the performance, like he knew where the cameras were. little facial gestures which in a stadium size like that, you don't see performers do. >> any space. >> thank you so much. great, again, terrible the circumstances we are here to discuss him, but so great to have you all. >>> coming up next, jimmy jam joins us. a break first. ♪ ♪ they found out who's been hacking into our network. who? guess. i don't know, some kids in a basement? you watch too many movies. who? a small business in china. a business? they work nine to five. they take lunch hours. like a job? like a job. we tracked them. how did we do that? we have some new guys defending our network. new guys? well, they're not that new. they've been defending

music and making music and sort of the generosity of making it for other people, with other people, chaka khanht along, gave a career to. >> the life force wasn't thinking about aids and poor people, wasn't making that band the tightest thing in the universe and the life force watching people go crazy, he knew he could do it with a flick of his heir or guitar solo. >> even with that, there was an intimacy to the performance, like he knew where the cameras were. little facial gestures which in a stadium size like that, you don't see performers do. >> any space. >> thank you so much. great, again, terrible the circumstances we are here to discuss him, but so great to have you all. >>> coming up next, jimmy jam joins us. a break first. ♪ ♪ ♪ little red corvette, baby you're much too fast ♪ then we gave it an available 12.3 inch multi-media display, to see around the curve... dynamic performance, to hold the curve... and bold styling to stay ahead of the curve. the lexus rx, rx hybrid and rx f sport. this is the rx, elevated. this is the pursuit of perfection. schwarzkopf presents hair in 30 minut

chaka khan ted and now he is at peace.nd spike lee said i miss my brother, prince was a funny cat, great sense of humor. and a lot of people who worked with the super star tweeted as well. justin timberlake said numb, stunned. can't be real. jesse jackson tweeted in a he would play for his family and thanks god for his legacy. for more on prince and his impact on the music world, head to the nbc washington app. >>> today a community will hold a prayer vigil for the victims of the deadly violence at the deanwood metro station. john evans iii was stabbed to death at the station on april 11 pth and davonte washington was shot and killed a few weeks before that. both were 15 years old. people are meeting at the antioch baptist church on 50th street in northeast tonight and then walking to the station. >>> another vigil today, this one for a transgender woman who was killed at the red roof inn in rockville this past weekend. groups including the trans united fund, kasa ruby and the baltimore transgender alliance are holding a v

and grammy winning funk superstar chaka khan wrote, i loved him, the world loved him.e's at peace with his father. rest in power, prince my brother. >> so sad. we posted this tribute to prince on our abc 7 news facebook page. you can share it on your face booth news feed to express your sympathy. >>> moving on to some other news and turning to the weather, we have a live look from mt. tam. it's already damp and cloudy there. rain is on the way. spencer christian now with an accuweather update. >> we began the day with a lot of cloud cover. now we have bright sunshine in some spots but as you point out clouds are returning. here is a look at depp letter 7 hd. we have a few clouds and the 24-hour temperature change shows you the cooling trend continues. most locations three to seven degrees cooler than this hour yesterday. looking out over san francisco, you can see the clouds blowing by. 66 here in the city, oakland 69, 74 at mountain view and san jose, morgan hill 72, half moon bay 59. at the golden gate you see clouds gathering as well and 66. at santa rosa, napa 65,

of the other best pop songs of the 1980s that were recorded by other people. 80 feel for you" by chaka khan, that was prince. "manic monday" by the bengals, that was prince. "nothing compares to you" by sinead o'connor, that was prince. in terms of his live performeds alone, there are fans of bruce springsteen who will wax as rhapsodic about the experiences of seeing a live springsteen show, but other than that i'm not sure there is any comparison in his era. from the previous generation, the best comparison ever made for him as a performer was james brown which of course then leads to the famous tape of james brown in 1983 inviting prince up on stage with him at a concert in los angeles whereupon prince, standing next to james brown, promptly steals the show. gets on stage with james brown, grabs somebody else's random guitar from some member of the band who was previous playing on stage, prince grabs the other guy's guitar, wanders around looking for a pick, gets the guy to give him a pick, settles the guitar on his hip having never touched that instrument before, takes over and absolutel

. >> he won a grammy for the chaka khan hit, i feel for you. people think that was chalka khan, prince wrote that. shin made o'connor. ashley: another classic song. kennedy thank you very much for being here. don't forget kennedy will have a live special 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on fox business on the life and death of prince. you do not want to miss that, kennedy, thank you. >>> coming up former presidential candidate ron paul will be here. he battled the republican party four years ago at the convention. he says donald trump is exactly right, the system is rigged! what advice does he have for "the donald?" we'll ask him next. my dad gave me those shares, you know. he ran that company. i get it. but you know i think you own too much. gotta manage your risk. an honest opinion is how edward jones makes sense of investing. poallergies?reather. stuffy nose? can't sleep? take that. a breathe right nasal strip instantly opens your nose up to 38% more than allergy medicine alone. shut your mouth and say goodnight, mouthbreathers. breathe right. h

. >> valerie simpson, chaka khan, paula cole, lizz wright, lalah hathaway, ledisi, chant\ moore, nancy wilson. >> tell me the impetus behind putting this particular project 'cause it's a follow-up lp for you. >> yes. well, the first one, it was more of an acoustic jazz cd. and i have always teetered between acoustic jazz and more groove-oriented music. and i wanted to show more of that style in this project. so it leans a little more r&b or my version of r&b meets jazz. and the vocalists are definitely known more as r&b singers, but they all have a jazz sensibility about them and can interpret jazz, as well. >> yeah, these -- i think the old people say, "these women just don't sing. they sang." [ both laugh ] i was very blessed to have all these amazing artists on the cd. >> and i know that you said it's really women-focused, but you said you didn't want to leave out -- you didn't want to forget about the men when you were putting this together. >> well, yes, because people tend to put you in a box, especially when you do all-female projects. and i did a cd in between these two mosaic

it was chaka khan. that's how he met her doing a phone prank. he didn't move.r left minneapolis. but he was always -- he was in new york a lot. >> and still doing tons of live shows. >> always. listen. he would do a lish show for three hours, and then leave and go to a club that night. same night. right. i mean, so you've never seen any one like this. >> did you have a clue things were wrong? >> no. the thing that bothers me about it is, the prince i know was like super healthy, vegan, wasn't an abuser of drugs, wasn't abuser of alcohol. you know, he lived right you know. he was clean and he looked young and really healthy and vibrant. so the whole thing is like very mysterious to me. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> i really appreciate it, guys. >> purple rain will be one of prince's greatest legacies winning grammys and oscar. here is joe pryor. >> with a stroke of brilliance prince rode that purple motorcycle onto the screen creating the movie and sound track that defined his career. ♪ purple rain purple rain >> purple rain is where a lot of people met