--- title: Prince Tribute Video Featuring Greatest Hits description: Just in time for the Purple One's birthday, there's now a mashup of 'The Color Purple' and Prince's greatest hits canonical: https://time.com/4809091/prince-color-purple-mashup/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-07T17:27:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:16.152Z og:title: Watch this 'Color Purple' and Prince Mashup for His Birthday og:description: You'll hear some of his greatest hits og:url: https://time.com/4809091/prince-color-purple-mashup/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch this 'Color Purple' and Prince Mashup for His Birthday twitter:description: You'll hear some of his greatest hits twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Celebrate Prince's Birthday With This Euphoric Video Mashup > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 7, 2017 5:27 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 7, 2017 5:27 PM UTC Wednesday is June 7th, the birthday of one of the world’s most brilliant musical geniuses, [Prince](http://time.com/4303558/prince-dead-paisley-park-57/), so what better way to pay homage to what would have been the Purple One’s 59th birthday than with a musical tribute that takes stock of his greatest hits? A new musical mashup by Michael Korte, the YouTube personality that conceived the pop culture collision of [a Hamilton/Beyoncé mashup](http://time.com/4580054/beyonce-hamilton-mashup/) seeks to do just that with #PURPLE4PRINCE, an ode to his Purpleness mixed with the songs of The Color Purple musical, a combination that’s fitting in more ways than one. Featuring the vocal talents of Lolah Brown, Milo Bloom, Emi Secrest, Uri Grey, Kawan DeBose, and Sha’Leah Nikole and arranged by Jared Jenkins, the mashup uses songs from the popular musical against Prince favorites like “[Purple Rain](http://time.com/4437859/prince-purple-rain-anniversary/)” and “I Feel For You.” Celebrate his Purpleness and watch the full video below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4809091/prince-color-purple-mashup/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4809091/prince-color-purple-mashup/"},"headline":"Celebrate Prince's Birthday With This Euphoric Video Mashup","datePublished":"2017-06-07T17:27:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:16.152Z","description":"#PURPLE4PRINCE","url":"https://time.com/4809091/prince-color-purple-mashup/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music","viral","Prince"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4809091/prince-color-purple-mashup/","name":"Celebrate Prince's Birthday With This Euphoric Video Mashup"}}]}] ```