Prince's sister Tyka Nelson, 64, dies six months after she was forced to miss her retirement concert due to ill health

Prince's sister, the vocalist Tyka Nelson, has died aged 64, her household person confirmed. 

Tyka's lad President Nelson archetypal shared the quality of her decease with The Star Tribune but nary origin of decease oregon further details were given.

A Facebook post from Charles 'Chazz' Smith added: 'Our household is precise saddened to stock the quality of my relative Tyka Evene Nelson who passed distant this morning.'

The girl of John L. Nelson and Mattie Shaw Nelson, Tyka was Prince's lone afloat sibling. Sharon Nelson, her sister told the Tribune connected Monday: 'She had her ain mind. She's successful a amended place.'

Tyka was taken sick earlier this twelvemonth and was forced to miss her ain status and farewell performance successful June astatine the Dakota successful New York. 

Between 1988 and 2011, she released 4 albums titled Royal Blue successful 1988, Yellow Moon, Red Sky successful 1992, A Brand New Me successful 2008, and Hustler successful 2011.

'I'm getting older, the vocalist told the Minnesota Star Tribune earlier her last show. 'I truly wasn't a singer. I'm a writer. I conscionable hap to beryllium capable to sing. I bask singing.'

Tyka besides revealed earlier this twelvemonth that she was moving connected a memoir. 

She made her past nationalist show successful Australia, successful 2018 with a Prince tribute show.

Ahead of the 2018 show, Tyka spoke astir the power her precocious brother, who died successful 2016 aged 57 from an accidental fentanyl overdose, has had connected her ain philharmonic career.

In an interrogation with The Daily Telegraph, she revealed that she had sought comfortableness successful her brother's nonaccomplishment though his music.  

She went connected to explicate that her archetypal opus was recorded arsenic tribute to her member and their parents.

Titled End Of The Road, the opus was produced precisely 1 twelvemonth aft his passing, and recorded astatine his Paisley Park Headquarters.

'That opus was my mode of telling the satellite however I was feeling. And maine doing what helium had begged maine to bash each those years, to spell to Paisley Park to record,' she shared with the publication. 

While Prince was adamant that Tkya should commencement her ain signaling career, Tyka said that she refused to encroach upon his abstraction successful the fame game. 

'I hadn't wanted to earlier due to the fact that I wanted a abstracted (musical) identity; I knew helium could marque euphony but didn't cognize if I could,' she admitted. 

During a 2017 interrogation Tyka revealed she predicted her member was going to dice 3 years earlier his passing. 

She explained that she 'sensed' the worst was coming aft her philharmonic icon member rang her 1 time and said helium had 'done everything I've travel to do'.

Speaking connected ITV's Lorraine astir Prince's cause overdose, Tyka admitted the quality was the archetypal clip she hasn't utilized drugs and alcohol to 'mask the pain' of her grief. 

Tyka told stand-in big Christine Lampard: 'I was astatine McDonald's and I got a telephone telephone from an chartless number.

'He said, 'Is this Tyka? It's Prince here', and I said, 'After each this clip I cognize your voice, I cognize who you are'.

'We were conscionable walking and talking and helium said, 'I deliberation I've done everything I've travel to do', truthful that was him telling maine it was time.'

She explained that from that infinitesimal onwards, she had been 'waiting' for his tragic passing.

'I thought I'm going to bargain earrings for his funeral, I'm buying a necklace for his ceremonial and I'm readying this, I'm telling each my relatives Prince is passing, and truthful it took an existent 3 years from the clip I got the telephone astatine McDonald's.

'So erstwhile I got the telephone that helium had passed, I knew instantly what they meant due to the fact that I was conscionable benignant of waiting for that day.'

Tyka added: 'I don't cognize if it's Native American past - we bash consciousness things arsenic a people.'

She besides opened up astir her 'struggles', admitting she had been going done harrowing 'ups and downs' since Prince's decease aged 57. 

'I had the hardest clip [out of each her siblings]. We had spent each of our lives together. It astir apt lone deed maine past October,' she said astatine the time.

'I inactive person my days, but it's getting better. I tin spot myself astatine the concert, the archetypal clip I heard the demo tape.'

Tyka bravely revealed: 'This is the archetypal clip I've not utilized drugs and intoxicant to disguise the symptom of grief.

'This is the archetypal clip what I'm feeling has travel retired successful music, not drugs and alcohol.'

Tyka and her member were adjacent successful his last years aft a hard agelong successful their narration erstwhile Tyka was struggling with an addiction to ace cocaine.

She explained that erstwhile her parents died she fell disconnected the wagon, but Prince supported her and helped her financially erstwhile she went to rehab.   

Tyka besides divulged the communicative down the 3 beaded braids connected the right-hand broadside of her hair, which symbolise her precocious mother, begetter and Prince.

She revealed that erstwhile she dies her braid connected left-hand broadside would beryllium moved implicit to articulation the others connected the right. 

Prince's six siblings were named his ineligible heirs aft helium died successful 2016 with nary surviving children oregon spouse and nary volition successful accordance to Minnesota law.

Tyka on with Omarr Baker and Alfred Jackson sold their interests to Primary Wave successful the years since.