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Tuesday, November 24th, 2015

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2015 is a significant year for cult Minneapolis outfit, fDeluxe (The Band Formerly Known As The Family), marking the 30th anniversary of their much celebrated debut album ‘The Family’. Released in August 1985 the 8 song, self titled set is possibly one of the greatest funk albums of the 80s, and remains to this day an often overlooked treasure.
Formed in the wake of success of Prince’s smash hit film ‘Purple Rain’ The Family featured three former members of his Royal Badness’ nemesis The Time (Jellybean Johnson, Jerome Benton and “St Paul” Peterson) along with sax player Eric Leeds and Susannah Melvoin, twin sister of Revolution guitarist Wendy.
Signed to Prince’s Paisley Park Records the album charted in the Billboard Top 15 and spawned 2 hit singles ‘Screams Of Passion’ (#9) and ‘High Fashion’ (#34), both penned by their musical mentor. In 1990 Irish singer Sinead O’Connor scored a worldwide smash with her cover of the album’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’. Described as the “missing link between the psychedelic sounds of ‘Around The World In A Day’ and the horn-infused funk of ‘Parade” The Family has been cited as an all-time favourite by artists such as Dam-Funk, Questlove, Chris Rock, Erykah Badu and D’Angelo to name but a few.
The band disbanded after one concert - a sold out show at Minneapolis’ famous First Avenue - and, while they remained in touch with each other, the members forged careers down separate paths. That is until mutual friend Sheila E. convinced them to reunite for a huge charity concert in L.A.’s Forum. A year later The Roots persuaded them to appear at their lauded post Grammy party. After wrestling with the legal requirement of a new name fDeluxe reunited in 2009 and have released the critically acclaimed studio albums ‘Gaslight’ and ‘AM Static’ along with a blistering concert set ‘Live & Tight As A Funk Fiend’s Fix’.
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of ‘The Family’ fDeluxe will be heading out on tour later in the year. The group will, for the very first time, perform the debut record in its entirety along with, tracks from their acclaimed reunion releases. First date announced is a hometown show at The Dakota on November 24 in support of The Southdale YMCA*.
"It's hard to believe it was 30 years ago that this life changing record came out” says front man, producer and multi-instrumentalist St Paul Peterson. “It's as funky now as it was then. We all look forward to celebrating this occasion by playing that record live. 30 and the groove is still dirty!”
St Paul and Eric Leeds will join the celebrations at Paisley Park this coming Saturday September 5 after accepting an invite from Prince to perform at the worldwide launch of his new album ‘Hit n Run’. On stage at 1030pm. Sunday 6 sees them perform a guest spot for D’Angelo at his sold out show at First Avenue.
www.fdeluxe.com
*About the Southdale YMCA: Based in Edina Southdale is the largest YMCA in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St Paul and reaches men, women and children of all ages and extends beyond ethnic and cultural boundaries. Their desire is for everyone in the community to have access to programs and services like after-school care, water safety, chronic disease prevention and job training. Annually they raise funds to support the goal of never turning anyone away due to inability to pay and fDeluxe is proud to be a part of their fundraising efforts. Southdale YMCA