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Sheila E. cultivates unity, accepts prom proposal from fan at Lehman Center performance
New York Amsterdam News
|October 09, 2025
Grammy Award-winning percussionist Sheila E. stopped at the Lehman Center for Performing Arts in the Bronx on September 27 for an evening of dance, funk, and rhythm.
Grammy Award winning percussionist Sheila E. performing at the Lehman Center in the Bronx on September 27. (Johnny Knollwood photos)
(Johnny Knollwood)
The performer, who has collaborated with artists including Prince and George Duke and had chart success with songs like "The Glamorous Life," performed a string of career-spanning hits and fan favorites that interjected elements of R&B, jazz, and salsa into the music. She was joined by drummer Wes McVicker, keyboardist Bertron Curtis, vocalist Lynn Mabry, longtime bassist and tour manager Raymond McKinley, and guitarist Mychael Gabriel, whom Sheila referred to as her nephew onstage.
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