Prince Harvey
New York City, New York, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2012
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"In hopes of inspiring action and dialogue, the NYC-based emcee plans to release 100 songs in 100 days to protest President Donald Trump." - Billboard
Prince Harvey, best known as the artist who recorded his entire album in the SoHo Apple Store last year, is back with another message of can-do optimism called "Stay Gold" -- and it's definitely needed this particular election week with its seemingly never-ending series of nerve-wracking turns. - Paper Magazine
From the Apple Store to the recording studio - Nylon
"Prince Harvey needed to make an album. So after his computer crashed, he spent four months in an Apple store singing the entire thing into a display computer." - The Daily Beast
"I feel like my job is to get people excited about the future and to remind heads that this is our time and our world." - Vice/Noisey
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Still working on that hot first release.
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Prince Harvey is a NYC based artist, musician, and producer most famously known for recording his first album in an Apple Store. Harvey spent most of his childhood on the tiny island of Dominica where he started writing songs at the age of 8, influenced by late 90s rappers. At 14, his family moved to New York and since then he has been composing and producing alternative hip-hop music, praised by both mainstream and underground audiences. In 2017, he released an EP called Golden Child, followed by STAY BOLD: 100 DAYS 100 SONGS, where he premiered a new song everyday for 100 days as a protest against Trump.
Harvey's music has been featured in The New York Times, Noisey, Billboard, VICE, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, The Fader, and Afropunk among many others. Upon, release of his first album, PHATASS, he was mentioned by major music and news publications, as well as celebrities like Lil Wayne, Russell Simmons and Talib Kweli.
Harvey has performed nationally and internationally in venues such as 3Hd Festival (Berlin), Silencio (Paris), Via Festival (Pittsburgh), SXSW (Austin), Influencers Fest (Barcelona). Recently he finished two major funded artist and music residency programs at Harvest Works (2018), Denniston Hill (2019) and was the recipient of Open Call program at The Shed (2018-2019) where he has been developing a series of albums and films in relationship to anti-queer rhetoric in Caribbean popular culture, childhood trauma, and volience. In Summer 2019, Prince Harvey released the EP SSICC (an acronym for Some Samples I Couldn’t Clear).
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