Jason Draper

Jason Draper is a brand consultant and long-standing music journalist. As former Head of Curation at Universal Music Group and Reviews Editor of Record Collector magazine from 2006 to 2015, he now straddles both sides of the music industry, advising on content strategy and brand development for everyone from Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group to the audio-visual app jazzed. Author of the books Prince: Life and Times (2008; revised and updated in 2016) and Lives of the Musicians: Prince (2021), his work has also appeared in NME and Uncut, and as part of Royal Mail’s prestigious stamp collections.

Jason has been writing about Prince for twenty years and has contributed one of the essays to the Diamonds and Pearls super-deluxe edition box set.