"My father and Mattie Shaw knew each other all their lives. They were close friends. They collaborated musically. They often went to gigs together. They brought their families together often.

Nelson and Mattie Della Shaw Baker. The “Kiss” singer's dad and mom initially met through music when John performed at a jazz club, and Mattie was in the crowd, according to Prince's website.

Prince Rogers Nelson was born June 7, 1958, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis to Mattie Shaw and John Nelson. They had been in a jazz ensemble called the Prince Roger Trio. Since Mattie ...

Tyka was the daughter of John L. Nelson, a pianist who collaborated with Prince on several occasions, and Mattie Shaw Nelson. The news was first reported by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Nelson and Mattie Shaw Nelson. In the late Eighties, Nelson followed her brother into music, releasing her first album, Royal Blue, in 1988. That album featured her two most successful songs ...

The 7-time Grammy winner was preceded in death by both of his parents John L. Nelson and Mattie Shaw, who divorced in 1966 when Tyka was 6 and Prince was 8. With their parents deceased ...

Omarr Baker claims he took care of his mother, Mattie Shaw, for several years until her death in 2002 in exchange for the right to live in the ...

Born May 18, 1960, Tyka was the daughter of John L. Nelson, a pianist who collaborated with Prince on several occasions, and Mattie Shaw Nelson. “She had her own mind,” Sharon Nelson ...

Tyka Nelson, the Minneapolis-based singer and sister of the late superstar Prince, died Monday. She was 64. Her death was ...

Born Tyka Evene Nelson on May 18, 1960, in Minneapolis to pianist John L. Nelson and jazz singer Mattie Shaw Nelson, Tyka Nelson was the only full sibling of the Purple Rain singer born Prince ...