Featured Artist:
Matt "Doctor"
Fink - Keyboards
(audio samples coming soon)
As a musician and vocalist, calling Matt
"Doctor" Fink's talents and interests eclectic
would be an understatement. The keyboardist got his start
in music early by studying classical and jazz piano for
10 years as a child. By the time he was 12, his first
band, Odella, was playing Top 40 hits of the 60s and 70s
in garages, church basements and school gymnasiums throughout
Minneapolis.
At 16, Fink joined Spiff Cool and the
Keeno Jets and toured the Upper Midwest playing 50s cover
tunes at high school dances and nightclubs. When he graduated
from his Minneapolis high school, he played rock and pop
with the band Zachariah and R&B, funk and disco with
the B.T. Rockets.
In the fall of 1978, he joined Prince's band, which would
later be named the Revolution and eventually the New Power
Generation. Fink toured the world with Prince, rubbing
shoulders with members of the Rolling Stones, jamming
with Eric Clapton, hanging out with Bruce Springsteen
and Sting, and of course collaborating with Prince on
albums including Dirty Mind, Controversy, Purple Rain,
Around the World in a Day, Parade and Sign O' the Times.
Since leaving the band in 1991, The Doctor has been spending
his time in his Minneapolis recording studio, StarVu,
producing artists, music for video games, and soundtrack
music.
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