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"I thought, ‘I can’t play now. He’s going to be looking at my fingers and judging me’”: British acid jazz outfit The Brand New Heavies say that Prince came to watch them three times and Stevie Wonder once sang one of their songs to them

Thursday November 27, 2025. 02:59 PM , from Keyboard Magazine

Oh, and Mark Ronson credits them with changing his musical direction

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