PRINCE’S sister, Tyka Evene Nelson, has died at the age of 64, her family has confirmed.
The singer was due to have a farewell concert in June – but was taken ill and the show went on without her.
Her son, President Nelson, confirmed her death on Monday but did not give any other details, The Star Tribune reports.
A post on Facebook from cousin Charles “Chazz” Smith read, “Our family is very saddened to share the news of my cousin Tyka Evene Nelson who passed away this morning.”
The Minneapolis singer released four albums between 1988 and 2011 and was supposed to have her retirement and farewell concert in June.
“I’m getting older,” Nelson told the Minnesota Star Tribune before the June show.
“I really wasn’t a singer. I’m a writer. I just happen to be able to sing. I enjoy singing.”
She added that she was writing a memoir.
“She had her own mind,” Sharon Nelson, her sister, said Monday night.
“She’s in a better place.”
Nelson’s last public performance was in Australia in 2018.
Her death comes eight years after the death of her superstar brother Prince in 2016.
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The musician was 57 when he died, with his autopsy results revealing the cause to be an accidental overdose of fentanyl.
Tyka’s sister Sharon did not get to know her until after Prince died in 2016.
Tyka Nelson is survived by her sons President and Sir, sisters Sharon and Norrine Nelson, and brother Omarr Baker.
