Prince

Genres:	Action & Adventure • Drama • Funk • Jazz • Music & Radio • Music Videos & Concerts • Musicals & The Arts • Pop / Rock • R&B / Soul • Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Descriptive "tags":	funk • soul • rhythm and blues • blues • rnb
Decades Active:	1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	BBC Music • Fan Page • IMDb • MusicMoz • Official Homepage • Wikipedia

Biography

Prince Rogers Nelson, 7 June 1958, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. A prodigiously talented singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Prince was named after the Prince Roger Trio, of whom his father, pianist John Nelson, was a member. After running away from his mother and stepfather, he briefly joined up with John, who bought him his first guitar. He was later adopted by the Andersons, and became a close friend of Andre Anderson (later Andre Cymone). Prince was already conversant with piano and guitar and had written his own material from an early age. Together with Anderson he joined the latter’s cousin, Charles Smith, in a junior high school band titled Grand Central. As Prince progressed to high school, Grand Central became Champagne, and he introduced original material into his sets for the first time. His musical development continued with the emergence of ‘Uptown’, a musical underground scene that included Flyte Time, as well as other...

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