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On April 21, 1986, Prince wrote “Sometimes it Snows in April” and reportedly recorded the song in one take. Thirty years later, it would be the same date that he would take his last breath.
The song, which bids farewell to the character Christopher Tracy from the film Under the Cherry Moon, was covered by D’Angelo on “The Tonight Show” on April 26. Assisted by backup singers Maya Rudolph and Gretchen Lieberum, D’Angelo appeared behind a piano as purple lighting lit the stage and began singing the melancholy ballad.
“I used to cry for Tracy because I wanted to see him again, but sometimes sometimes life ain’t always that way. … Sometimes it snows in April, sometimes I feel so bad, so bad. Sometimes I wish life was never ending, and all good things, they say, never last. Love isn’t love until it’s past,” he sang.
At one moment during the performance, D’Angelo paused for a second and cried while singing the lyric, “I often dream of heaven and I know that Prince is there.”
D’Angelo proved to be the perfect artist to convey such emotions.
The tribute was another example of how Prince touched lives through music and will always be remembered as an important figure in arts and culture.
Check out reactions on social media:
D’Angelo singing this song makes me really want to cry.
I can’t believe Prince is gone!! Just shocked. Really shocked.
— Vanilla ISIS (@rmichaelthomas) April 27, 2016
Could really feel D’Angelo’s pain towards the end. Made it hard to watch. #JimmyFallon
— Trap Vibe$ (@PoetQ_) April 27, 2016
Still emotional from D’Angelo’s cover of Sometimes It Snows in April.
— Pino 9:16 (@davidapino) April 27, 2016
D’Angelo is making me so emotional right now.
— Steffi Acain (@steffi_acain811) April 27, 2016
I’m bout to cry at this D’Angelo Prince Tribute … ?
— Mermaid Muvah (@Idee_fixe_) April 27, 2016
@TheDangelo amazing job on the prince tribute Sometimes It Snows in April man that hit the heart hard stay bless pic.twitter.com/GVA4pb23wu
— A∂▲❍▼ (@AJCertified1) April 27, 2016
