How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Sheila E.

The mode Sheila E. remembers it, she received her archetypal telephone astir a gig arsenic a moving Los Angeles instrumentalist arsenic she was engaged unpacking the moving motortruck with which she’d conscionable moved to L.A.

“‘Can you travel bash a session?’ — that benignant of thing,” the Oakland autochthonal recalls with a laugh. “It was beauteous awesome.”

In Sunday Funday, L.A. radical springiness america a play-by-play of their perfect Sunday astir town. Find ideas and inspiration connected wherever to go, what to devour and however to bask beingness connected the weekends.

This was 1980 oregon ’81, she reckons, conscionable aft she’d travel disconnected the roadworthy playing percussion for the jazz prima George Duke; by 1984, she’d go a prima herself with the popular deed “The Glamorous Life,” which she chopped with her mentor Prince and which went to No. 7 connected Billboard’s Hot 100.

Over the decades that followed, Sheila E. went connected to grounds oregon execute with everyone from Ringo Starr to Beyoncé. Yet her latest projects look backmost to her earliest days playing Latin jazz with her father, chap percussionist Pete Escovedo: “Bailar” is simply a salsa medium with impermanent vocal spots by the likes of Rubén Blades and Gloria Estefan, portion an accompanying instrumental disc features appearances by players specified arsenic bassist Marcus Miller and trumpeter Chris Botti.

Sheila E. volition circuit Europe successful April. Here, she runs down her regular for a invited time disconnected astatine location successful L.A.

10 a.m.: Parents successful the pews

I would get up astir 7:30 oregon 8, and the archetypal happening I’ll bash is spell to church. My religion is called Believe L.A., and it’s successful Calabasas. My pastor is Aaron Lindsey, who’s an unthinkable gospel shaper who’s won galore Grammys. The set is ever connected point, and it feeds my psyche — it’s what I request arsenic portion of my food. You conscionable locomotion retired truthful happy. I mean, I locomotion successful blessed astir of the time. But you locomotion retired filled with emotion and peace. It’s a joyful time, particularly erstwhile I get to bring my parents with me. Still having them astir is simply a immense blessing. They conscionable celebrated their 69th anniversary. That’s truly rare.

Noon: No foodstuff required

After religion we’ll spell to brunch astatine Leo & Lily successful Woodland Hills. Sometimes I’ll bid the breakfast, which is 2 eggs and turkey bacon and potatoes. But sometimes that’s a small spot excessively heavy, truthful I’ll get the orzo salad, which is truly good. I mightiness person an espresso, oregon I mightiness person a solid of Champagne. I don’t similar mimosas — conscionable springiness it to maine straight.

1:30 p.m.: Retail therapy

My parents emotion driving down Ventura Boulevard. We’ll halt astatine immoderate places and spell model shopping, oregon possibly we’ll spell to the Topanga Westfield mall. And erstwhile we decorativeness astatine the mall, I person to spell to Costco. The Costco tally is truly conscionable for my canine — I person to get each her food. I get turkey and vegetables, and I navigator each that and pre-make her meals for 2 weeks truthful I don’t person to woody with it. I tin conscionable unfastened it, lukewarm it up and provender her. She’s a mixed pit rescue, and her sanction is Emma. I got her erstwhile she was 5 months aged successful Oakland portion we were performing, and present she’s 12. She’s a sweetheart.

4 p.m.: Family secret

We’re sports fans, truthful if it’s shot season, we person to hurry up and get backmost to my location for the game. We’re a 49ers family. I would accidental the Raiders due to the fact that we’re from Oakland, but we’ve ever been 49ers fans. I mean, erstwhile it’s clip to basal for the Raiders, we do. We don’t hatred similar the Raiders hatred connected us. I’ll navigator nutrient depending connected who all’s coming implicit — my nephews and assorted friends and truthful on. I grill a lot, truthful I’ll bash steaks oregon lamb chops oregon chickenhearted wings. My ma loves making murphy salad. I can’t archer you the look — it’s a secret. It’s really her mother’s murphy salad, and they’re Creoles. Those Creoles don’t messiness astir with their murphy salad.

8:30 p.m.: Games aft the game

I ne'er archer anyone to leave. Sometimes radical walk the nighttime — it’s an unfastened house. If we’re not excessively tired, we’ll commencement playing committee games oregon paper games. Don’t get america started connected poker.

11:30 p.m.: Steam time

Before furniture I’ll get into the sauna conscionable to unbend and bash a small sweating. Then I spell instrumentality a ablution with jazz oregon spa euphony playing. Sometimes I’ll bash a small stretching earlier I get successful the bed. I usually don’t work earlier I spell to sleep. My go-to is HGTV — I acceptable it for an hr and a half, and I’m out.