Prince Harvey is a NYC based artist, musician, and producer most famously known for recording his first album in an Apple Store. He spent most of his childhood on the tiny island of Dominica where he started writing songs at the age of eight, influenced by late 90s rappers. Since his family’s move to New York when he was 14, he has been praised by both mainstream and underground audiences for his alternative hip-hop compositions and productions. In 2017, he released an EP, Golden Child, followed by STAY BOLD: 100 DAYS 100 SONGS, premiering a new song every day for 100 days as a protest against Trump. In 2018, Prince Harvey was an artist in residence at Harvest Works and a commissioned artist at The Shed, where he began work on a new music album and series of short films. He received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in music.
Upon the release of his first album, PHATASS, he was mentioned by major music and news publications. Prince 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.
Prince Harvey will use this residency at Camargo to further explore intersecting French and English dialects, searching for fluid ways to the infuse his work with Dominican Patois and Creole language expressions passed on to him through his upbringing in Dominica (a now post-colonial island once occupied first by France and then by Great Britain), using his art as a bridge between these multiplicities of thought, understanding, and history.
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