David Z, the Minneapolis musician and producer best-known for his work with Prince, has handed away. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune experiences that David Z, born David Rivkin, died in a Burbank, California hospital on Sunday. In keeping with his youthful brother Bobby Z, the previous drummer from Prince’s band the Revolution, David died of issues of an an infection. He was 78.
David Rivkin grew up in Minneapolis, and he performed guitar on ’60s singles from native teams just like the Chancellors and the Excessive Spirits. Within the early ’70s, he frolicked as a employees songwriter on A&M, the place he labored with Gram Parsons, and performed on information from folks like Billy Preston. In 1976, he helped a teenage Prince report the demo that acquired him signed to Warner Bros. In a while, David did engineering work on a bunch of Prince information, and he performed some devices on the 1986 smash “Kiss” and helped prepare the monitor.
David Z additionally had a stint as a guitarist for Lipps Inc., the Minneapolis disco venture that made the immortal 1980 hit “Funkytown.” He additionally helped produce monitor for Prince-affiliated Minneapolis acts like Mazarati and the Household earlier than producing big late-’80s hits like Wonderful Younger Cannibals’ “She Drives Me Loopy” and Jody Watley’s “Trying For A New Love.” He additionally labored on late-period information from greats like Buddy Man and Etta James. Take a look at a few of his work under.
