Prince and Mayte

Questlove is in a large dressing room backstage at Carnegie Hall, getting his Afro picked out before going onstage to lead a संगीत कार्यक्रम honoring the संगीत of his all-time प्रिय recording artist, Prince. His mother is sitting beside him, beaming at her boy. Back when Quest, now the Roots ढंढोरची, ढोलकिया and Jimmy Fallon bandleader, was a teenager, she and his father only listened to Christian radio and behaved like “the black Ned and Maude Flanders,” he writes in his upcoming memoir, Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove. When she found Prince records in his room, she would throw them...

​It seems cosmically fitting and timely that the Jacaranda trees are now in full, glorious bloom, painting the LA skyline with purple flowers, which eventually rain to the ground, a purple rain, creating impressionist paintings made द्वारा nature for all to appreciate and enjoy. June also brings with it another purplesque moment, June 7, 1958, which is the दिन that Prince Rogers Nelson was born to the world.

When आप think of the legendary musician Prince, you’ve probably never even considered the possibility of yoga having any sort of connection to him या his music. Then again, you’ve probably...