Prince’s sister Tyka Nelson dead at 64: report

Prince‘s sister Tyka Nelson died at the age of 64.

Nelson’s son, President Nelsonshared the news of his mother’s death with the Minnesota Star Grandstand on Tuesday, November 5, but provided no further details. (We weekly has contacted the Prince estate for comment.)

“She had her own opinion. She’s in a better place,’ her half-sister, Sharon Nelsonthe outlet told us.

Nelson – who was two years younger than her famous brother – died early Monday, the newspaper said.

Just like Prince and her jazz singer parents Mattie Della Shaw Baker and musician John L NelsonNelson was an accomplished musician who recorded and released four studio albums between 1988 and 2011.

According to the Star TribuneNelson would retire from music in June and one final concert would take place in Minneapolis. However, Nelson became ill and did not survive.

“I’m getting older. I really wasn’t a singer. I am a writer. I happen to be able to sing. I love singing,” she told the outlet before the concert.

Prince was found dead in an elevator at his Paisley Park complex in Chanhassen, Minnesota, on April 21, 2016. He was 57. His cause of death was determined to be an accidental overdose of the opioid fentanyl.

The star’s sister told the Star Tribune in June that she last spoke to him four days before his death.

“He kept avoiding questions. I kept getting angry,” Nelson said. “I was like, ‘Talk to me for two seconds.’ He changed the subject, made a joke and then we both laughed. He asked me if I could find more information about our family. Prince wanted me to find (half-sister) Sharon’s number. I didn’t ask any questions about it. It was like, ‘Send this photo to that person.’ OK. For what?”

Nelson also said that it wasn’t until after his death that she realized how popular her brother was.

“I didn’t know Prince was that big,” she recalls of a trip to London to promote a Prince exhibition in 2017. “They lined up to tell me stories. Women said to me, ‘I’m going to kill myself and then I put on this (Prince) song or heard it on the radio and I didn’t want to die.’ That’s so great. So now you’re going to make me cry.”

Nelson and Prince also had five half-siblings: Sharon, Norrine And John (died 2021) Nelson, Alfred Jackson (died 2019), and Omar Baker.