Sheila E.

Songwriter: Prince

Producer: Prince

Sister's got a place she goes whenever she's lonely
It's so much fun
Brother cries whenever he's lonely
And he's lonely cuz he hasn't one
But that's cool cuz...

Sister's got a place she goes whenever she's lonely
She's got a toy box
Love
It comes so easy when the children open doors
Doesn't matter who knocks

Sister's very kind so it's never quite a problem
When it comes 2 love
Everything's so easy when we're children
One touch is 2 much
Oooh

One touch
One touch
One touch is 2 much

Why we hide our feelings when we're older
Is a movie I don't want 2 see (I don't want 2 see)
Truth is all that matters in a month of Saturdays
When U're 17 (When U're 17)

(She's got a toy box)
(Knock, knock)

Sister's got a place she goes whenever she's lonely
She's got a toy box (toy box)
Love comes so easy
She's got a toy box

One touch, one touch, one touch is 2 much

(One touch, one touch, one touch is 2 much)
Good God

Tom, Tom, bring me my furs
Bring me
Bring me the brown, no
Bring me the black, no

Tom, bring me my white, no
Bring me the black
Tom, bring me...
I can't...
Bring me one of the furs, good God!

I... I need my, my jewels
I, my diamonds and shit
I... U know

I can't...
I can't go 2 the club without my jewels
Give me it...
Eddie, I... good God
U know
Lord, I...

(Sister got a place she goes)
Where'd she go?
I need my fur
Tom, good God, I...

Lord, I'm...
I'm tryin' 2 tell ya
Give me my diam...

Look, y'all don't...
I..
Bring me the black one
The black one! (She goes)
God, man
Come on, good God

My toy box
Lord, y'all want some?
Oh, look

Toy box

Sheila E., born Sheila Escovedo on December 12, 1957, is a singer, songwriter, and percussionist from Oakland, California. Her honorific title is “The Queen of Percussion”.

The daughter of a Mexican jazz percussionist and Creole/African-American factory worker, Sheila comes from a family of musical royalty – father Pete Escovedo and uncle Coke were members of the Santana band for a time. Her other uncles are Alejandro, who has had a sustained alt-punk career; Javier, who led the early punk pioneer band The Zeros; and Mario, who fronted the 90s group The Dragons and MEX, aka Mario Escovedo Xperience. Sheila’s brothers Juan and Peter Michael are also percussionists, with Peter working on The Wayne Brady Show. Sheila is the goddaughter of Tito Puente, a Latin Jazz pioneer and Spanish Harlem legend.

“Before I had language, I had rhythm,” she wrote in The Beat Of My Own Drum, a 2014 memoir. “I learned it before I learned my mother tongue.” At the age of 20, Sheila became a member of George Duke’s R&B jazz band, and worked with him from 1976 to 1980, during Duke’s early Epic/CBS years. By the age of 26, she had already worked or toured with Marvin Gaye, Herbie Hancock, Diana Ross, and family friend Lionel Richie.

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