--- title: Emma Stone Once Played Backup Tambourine for Prince description: The 'La La Land' actress shared an unexpected tidbit about her percussion-playing experience in a new interview for Vogue. canonical: https://time.com/4531582/emma-stone-vogue-prince/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-14T17:47:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:41.048Z og:title: Emma Stone Once Played Backup Tambourine for Prince og:description: The 'La La Land' actress overcame an injury to put her percussion skills to use og:url: https://time.com/4531582/emma-stone-vogue-prince/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte3b1c8cc392e66ee/6988aa18e20a875834a92cb0/emma-stone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 2016 Toronto International Film Festival - "La La Land" Premiere og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emma Stone Once Played Backup Tambourine for Prince twitter:description: The 'La La Land' actress overcame an injury to put her percussion skills to use twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte3b1c8cc392e66ee/6988aa18e20a875834a92cb0/emma-stone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's What Emma Stone Has to Say About the Time She Played Backup Tambourine for Prince > Sponsored content. 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Emma Stone arrives at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival - "La La Land" premiere held at Princess of Wales Theatre on September 12, 2016 in Toronto, Canada. Michael Tran—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Oct 14, 2016 5:47 PM UTC Hollywood’s [reigning sweetheart Emma Stone](http://time.com/4462713/emma-stone-ryan-gosling-la-la-land/?iid=sr-link3) can act. [She can sing.](http://time.com/80790/emma-stone-jimmy-fallon-lip-sync/?iid=sr-link4) She can dance. And, apparently, she can also play the tambourine—and play it well enough to appear onstage with the percussion instrument during a Prince performance. In her new [cover interview for _Vogue_](http://www.vogue.com/13490922/emma-stone-november-cover-la-la-land-movie-ryan-gosling/), the [_La La Land_ star](http://time.com/4474968/la-la-land-venice-film-festival/?iid=sr-link1) shared an unexpected tidbit as she recalled her busy winter last year in New York. She appeared during _Saturday Night Live_‘s star-studded 40th anniversary special, and then attended an apparently very lively after party at the city’s iconic Plaza Hotel. “I’d taken off my shoes to dance because I am one of those people who dance at parties,” Stone told _Vogue._ “And I stepped in broken glass. It was embedded into my heel. I walked off and was bleeding all over the place… And then 60 seconds later, one of the _SNL_ people was like, ‘Prince is onstage. Do you want to go on and play the tambourine?’” And so she did. 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