Boyer was playing keyboards and singing backing vocals with
Sheila E.'s group when
Prince was forming a new touring band after the break-up of
The Revolution, in 1986. When Sheila E. became the drummer in the new band, she also brought Boyer and her bassist
Levi Seacer, Jr. with her. Boyer performed as keyboardist and vocalist on the
concert tours for ''
Sign o' the Times and on the albums and concert tours for Lovesexy and Graffiti Bridge''. Technically Boni Boyer left Prince's band for Australia after the Lovesexy tour was over. The same goes for Cat, but Sheila E who protested the changing of the band, suffered back issues/collapsed lung after she parted ways with Prince when she did not agree with the direction of Prince's 4th album for her. When Prince formed
The New Power Generation in 1990, Boyer left the band along with Sheila E. and
Cat Glover. She performed and recorded with many artists, including
Tony! Toni! Toné!,
Con Funk Shun,
Digital Underground,
Lionel Richie and
Al Jarreau. Boyer died from a
brain aneurysm in
San Pablo, California,
Contra Costa County, California, U.S.. Boyer's last recorded appearance before her death was on
Raphael Saadiq's solo single "
Ask of You" on the
soundtrack to the 1994 film Higher Learning. ==Discography==