Ricky Wyatt, “The Ricker,” is a bassist, performer, comic book author, long time Prince fan and a disciple of the MPLS sound. A native of Atlanta, GA, currently living in Richmond, VA. Ricky leads the jazz-funk unit “SoWhut?!” and the R&B unit “Footprints.” A graduate of Virginia State University’s Department of Political Science, and a student of Prince’s purple grooves since ’79, Ricky teaches History at the Binford Middle Arts & Integration Program for Richmond Public Schools and maintains an active performance schedule. Ricky often guests on What Did Prince Do This Week?

Greg “King Rem” Howard is a musician, producer, emcee, film composer, and multi-instrumentalist from Cleveland, Ohio, currently residing in Brooklyn. He is the former Director of Special Projects at the Harvard University Hip-Hop Archives and Research Institute and a founding member of the hip-hop band Poetic Republic.

With nine films to date, he is becoming a highly sought composer for many indie film producers. Howard has also lent his talents to producing, mixing, mastering, and arranging songs and albums for various artists. His influences include artists and producers across various genres.

Chris Aguilar García (he/they) is a Queer Chicanx writer and editor from Thornton, Colorado. Discovering Prince in 1982 via 1999, they were mesmerized by this male-presenting artist who so expertly defied conventional gender norms while incidentally producing, arranging, composing, and performing the baddest, sexiest, most funky work they had ever heard! Thus began a lifelong journey of following the music, art, and meaning of Prince.

They have presented work on the queerness of Prince at the Purple Reign and Prince from MPLS conferences, and at national and regional gatherings of the Popular Culture Association.

A graduate of Antioch University Los Angeles, they hold an extensive career in community minded organizations, currently as Director of Operations at Queer Asterisk Therapeutic Services.

C. Liegh McInnis is a poet, short story writer, Prince scholar, retired instructor of English at Jackson State University, co-founder of the JSU Creative Writing Program, the former publisher and editor of Black Magnolias Literary Journal, and the author of eight books, including four collections of poetry, one collection of short fiction (Scripts:  Sketches and Tales of Urban Mississippi), one work of literary criticism (The Lyrics of Prince:  A Literary Look at a Creative, Musical Poet, Philosopher, and Storyteller), and one co-authored work, Brother Hollis:  The Sankofa of a Movement Man, which discusses the life of a legendary Mississippi Civil Rights icon.  He is also a former First Runner-Up of the Amiri Baraka/Sonia Sanchez Poetry Award sponsored by North Carolina State A&T.  He has presented papers at national conferences, such as College Language Association, the National Council of Black Studies, the Neo-Griot Conference, and the Black Arts Movement Festival, and his work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Obsidian, Callaloo, African American Review, Black Fire This Time Vols. 1 and 2, Tribes, The Southern Quarterly, Konch Magazine, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Down to the Dark River:  An Anthology of Poems on the Mississippi River,  Black Hollywood Unchained:  Essays about Hollywood’s Portrayal of African Americans,  Black Panther: Paradigm Shift or Not? A Collection of Reviews and Essays on the Blockbuster Film, Asymptote, The Pierian, Black Gold:  An Anthology of Black Poetry, Sable, New Delta Review, The Black World Today, In Motion Magazine, MultiCultural Review, A Deeper Shade, New Laurel Review, Oxford American, Journal of Popular Music and Society, Journal of Ethnic American Literature, and Red Ochre Lit.  In January of 2009, C. Liegh, along with eight other poets, was invited by the NAACP to read poetry in Washington, DC, for their Inaugural Poetry Reading celebrating the election of President Barack Obama.