Prince and Purple Rain

Andrea  Swensson  is an author, podcast host, and music journalist based in Minneapolis. She hosts the Official Prince Podcast, produced in collaboration with Paisley Park Enterprises, NPG Records, Warner Records, and Sony Music Entertainment, and has contributed music journalism to numerous outlets, including NPR Music, Pitchfork,   The Minneapolis Star Tribune,   City Pages, and The Current, where she previously hosted “ The Local Show. ” Her first book, Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound, chronicling the funk and soul scene from the 1950s to the 1970s, was released in October 2017 and honored with a Minnesota Book Award. She is also the author of the new book  Deeper Blues, a heartfelt biography of the nonagenarian blues musician (and Jimmy Jam’ s father) Cornbread Harris.