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Will Prince’s Secret Music Vault Full Of Unreleased Songs Be Opened?

By Coburn Palmer
Published on: 20:30 PST, Apr 21, 2016

Music superstar Prince died suddenly Thursday at the age of 57, leaving the world in shock, but his fans have already begun to speculate about the thousands of unreleased songs in his secret music vault.

Prince sold more than 100 million records during his career, publishing an album a year, but much of what he recorded was never released, Grammy-winning composer Brent Fischer told the Mirror.

There are lot of songs that were sent to us clearly with the idea that they would never be released.

The story of Prince’s secret vault has long been music legend, but his former sound engineer, Susan Rogers, who joined the team in 1983, admitted to The Guardian that she had helped create the mythical treasury.

Rogers described the secret music trove as a bank vault with a thick door and combination lock built into the basement of Prince’s Paisley Park estate in Minneapolis.

I wanted us to have everything he’d ever recorded. This is his legacy. When I left in 87, it was nearly full. Row after row of everything we’d done. I can’t imagine what they’ve done since then.

The secret music collection is rumored to be so large that the estate of Prince could continue publishing new albums every year for the next century after his death, Fischer told The Guardian.

“I’d like to see All My Dreams come out. We enjoyed that song so much. I think it’s nine-and-a-half minutes. It’s this epic journey.”

Prince produced new music albums at a phenomenal rate, almost as if driven to it, and he would often work through the night with other musicians to create the art he so loved.

Saxophonist Eric Leeds, who played with Prince on and off for thirty years, told The Mirror that the music legend gave him a bunch of instrumentals for an album that never saw the light of day.

“I actually sequenced the record. There was one 45-minute jam called Junk Music. The project was going to be called The Flesh and it was the greatest thing in the world in Prince’s mind. That lasted about three days. Then Prince got bored and the record got shelved.”

Rogers says the vault also includes a never before released song called Moonbeam Levels that Prince recorded in July of 1982.

The music icon himself promised to burn everything in the vault one day, but he then went on to tease his fans with the existence of the secret music treasure trove in 2012 with a YouTube clip.

Prince found musical fame with his 1984 release of Purple Rain and went on to become one of the best-selling musicians ever; he won seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. The singer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and was ranked number 27 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

On Thursday, he was found dead in an elevator in his Paisley Park recording studio in Minnesota, having battled the flu for some time. He was on tour as late as last week, but the superstar’s plane was forced to make an emergency landing, and Prince was rushed to an Illinois hospital when his condition worsened.

Saturday, he appeared in front of a small gathering of fans to prove that reports of his illness were exaggerated.

Thursday, as news of his death shocked the world, celebrities across the globe paid tribute to the superstar, and music fans everywhere were mourning the passing of a legend. Social media erupted Thursday, with fans worldwide expressing their grief as Prince albums and memorabilia sold out in stores everywhere.

Photo credit: AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing

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