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The document has moved here."The Artist" redirects here.For another performer sometimes known as "The Artist", see Michael Haynes III.Prince Rogers Nelson (born June 7, 1958, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American musician.He uses the stage name Prince but has also been known by various other names, among them an unpronounceable symbol and The Artist Formerly Known As Prince."Minneapolis sound" and has proved very influential.Prince is a prolific artist, having released several hundred songs both under his own name and with other artists.Regarded by many as a perfectionist, Prince is known for being highly protective of his music.Monikers
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Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota at Mount Sinai Hospital on Saturday June 7, 1958, to John L.John was a pianist and songwriter, and Mattie was a singer.He is named after the Prince Rogers Trio, his father's jazz band, and as a boy he was called Skipper.There are a number of myths regarding Prince's ethnicity, some spread by Prince himself.The article in question affirms Shaw as: "a singer sixteen years John's junior, Mattie bore traces of Billie Holiday in her pipes and more than a trace of Indian and Caucasian in her blood."After the birth of his sister Tyka, in 1960, Prince's parents gradually drifted apart.After they formally separated, he had a troubled relationship with his stepfather that resulted in his running away from home.Prince and Anderson joined Prince's cousin Charles Smith in a band called Grand Central that they formed in junior high school.His initial contributions were as an instrumentalist in what was a mainly instrumental band that played clubs and parties in the Minneapolis area.As time went by and Prince's musical interests broadened, he found himself producing the arrangements for the band.Before long he became the band's front man.By the time Prince entered high school, Grand Central evolved into Champagne and started playing original music already drawing on a range of influences including Sly Stone, James Brown, Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix.At one point Prince was a student at the Minnesota Dance Theatre.In 1976, he started work on a demo tape with producer Chris Moon in a Minneapolis studio.Husney started contacting major labels and ran a campaign promoting Prince as a star of the future, resulting in a bidding war eventually won by Warner Bros.They offered him a contract and were the only label to give Prince creative control of his songs.Pepe Willie, husband of Prince's cousin, Shantel, was an influential presence in Prince's early career.Willie acted as mentor and manager, along with Husney, for Prince in the Grand Central days, and he employed Prince in the studio for his own recordings.East comprised a group of singers and musicians that included Andre Cymone and Prince.Prince composed the music for Willie's lyrics and typically played guitar and keyboards in the studio.He wrote many songs for the group, including "Just Another Sucker."Although it was not a solo album, and was not commercially released until many years later, it is considered Prince's first professional album.For reasons that have never been disclosed by Prince, he refuses to acknowledge the existence of this album.In 1995, the original recordings with Prince and Cymone were released by Willie as 94 East featuring Prince, Symbolic Beginning.Prince, and his first of many for Warner Bros.This album, like most of his career, was not recorded with a band; Prince purportedly played all 27 instruments on the album.Critics detract from the impressiveness of this fact by qualifying them as "merely" different types of string, percussion, and keyboard instruments.The majority of For You was written and performed by Prince, except for the song "Soft and Wet" (music by Prince, lyrics by Prince and C.This was the first of Prince's albums containing the now ubiquitous legend: "Produced, Arranged, Composed and Performed by Prince."Prince used Prince's Music Co.By 1979, Prince had recruited his first backing band featuring Andrew Cymone on bass, Gayle Chapman and Doctor Fink on keyboards, Bobby Z on drums, and Dez Dickerson on guitar.January 26, 1980, on the TV show American Bandstand with this first backing band.Legend has it that Prince became annoyed when, during the interview segment, Dick Clark expressed surprise that Prince and his bandmates hailed from Minneapolis "of all places".At first Prince refused to speak, instead answering a question by gesturing with his hand.BMI for publishing his songs, which he would also use for the album Dirty Mind.On tour, Lisa Coleman replaced Chapman in the band, who felt the sexually explicit lyrics and stage antics of Prince's concerts conflicted with her religious beliefs.Prince opened for Rick James in a 1980 tour with the label "punk funk" being applied to both artists, although it reportedly didn't sit comfortably with Prince.Saturday Night Live hosted by Charlene Tilton that brought Jean Doumanian's lackluster tenure as executive producer down when cast member Charles Rocket uttered the word "fuck" at the end of the program.ASCAP for publishing his songs, which he would use for his following sixteen records until Emancipation in 1996.In 1981, Prince formed a "side project" (a problematic label given that his band was only used for performance, not recording sessions) band called The Time.Prince was able to do this thanks to a clause in his contract with Warner Bros.The Time released four albums between 1981 and 1990, with Prince writing and performing all instruments and backing vocals throughout.In the coming decade, Prince would also collaborate with Vanity (of Vanity 6), Apollonia (of Apollonia 6) and Sheila E.He also wrote hits for artists such as Sheena Easton, Celine Dion (as she talked about in an interview with Arsenio Hall in 1993), and The Bangles.O'Connor's cover of a song Prince initially wrote for The Family, "Nothing Compares 2 U," was a huge commercial success in 1990.The song "Delirious" also went top ten on the Billboard Hot 100.Stevie Nicks related a story in a television interview that she had come up with her 1983 song "Stand Back" after being inspired by the synthesizer part in "Little Red Corvette."When it was time to record the song, it happened that Prince was in Los Angeles near her recording studio.Around this time Prince began crediting his band as The Revolution, which consisted of Dez Dickerson on guitar, Lisa Coleman and Doctor Fink on keyboards, Bobby Z.The band's name was printed in reverse on the cover of 1999; Prince refrained using the name "The Revolution" until Dickerson left the band for personal reasons.Dickerson was replaced by Wendy Melvoin, a childhood friend of Lisa.Alicia Keys and Living Colour.US alone, and has proved to be Prince's biggest cinematic success to date.Karenna, listening that inspired her to found the Parents Music Resource Center.Prince's ban on music videos supposedly ended when the album stalled in the charts and, after a video for "Raspberry Beret," then reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100.In 1986, Prince released the album Parade.Hot 100, which Prince had written under the pseudonym "Christopher."Under The Cherry Moon, which Prince both directed and starred in.It was around this time that Miles Davis was quoted on his high regard for Prince's music.The prolific jazz musician proclaimed Prince to be "the most exciting artist of his time," and that "he could be another Duke Ellington."Prince was planning to collaborate with Davis on what would be the trumpeter's 1986 album Tutu, but plans fell through.Following the albums' release, Prince launched the Sign o' the Times Tour in Europe.The Revolution since the release of the movie and album Purple Rain (although 'The Revolution' is mentioned on the album "1999").Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman, Bobby "Z" Rivkin, and Mark Brown (Brown Mark); his new live performance band kept Matt Fink on keyboards, to whom he added Boni Boyer on keyboards, Sheila E on drums, Levi Seacer, Jr.Michael Jackson talked with Prince about performing a duet together for the title track of his new album Bad.Jackson and Prince ended up having creative differences, however, and Jackson recorded the title track for the album alone.The album remains legendary in Prince's career after its release was canceled at the artist's behest mere days before its release date.Though many already manufactured copies were supposed to be destroyed, several escaped and became the source for numerous bootleg editions.The 1988 album Lovesexy is considered Prince's "spiritual" answer to the "dark" The Black Album.One track from The Black Album, "When 2 R in Love," also appeared on Lovesexy.The US leg of the Lovesexy World Tour also proved to be commercial disappointment: Prince lost money as dates failed to sell out.He did balance this poor performance with the European and Japanese legs of the tour.In 1990, Prince released the film Graffiti Bridge, a sequel to Purple Rain that performed poorly at the box office.The soundtrack to "Graffiti Bridge" featured Prince along with artists such as Tevin Campbell, Mavis Staples of the Staple Singers, and Morris Day with his other band and project, The Time.The release of Diamonds and Pearls 1991 gave Prince his fifth US number one single with the song "Cream".Diamonds and Pearls debuted Prince's new band, the New Power Generation, that featured rapper Tony M, Rosie Gaines on vocals, Michael Bland on drums, Levi Seacer on guitar, Sonny T on bass, and Tommy Barbarella on keyboards.Prince working significantly on Kate Bush's 1993 album, The Red Shoes; her name appears in the credits of his Diamonds and Pearls album.Prince chiefly contributed on the song "Why Should I Love You," playing bass, guitar, and keyboards, singing vocals, and arranging music for the mix.This would be the final "Prince" credit, until 2000.Kate Bush reciprocated in 1996 and is featured on background vocals on the Emancipation track, "My Computer.""Symbol," "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince," or simply "The Artist."Unfortunately, neither the album nor single performed as well in sales as Prince and Warner Bros.Name change
In 1993, during negotiations regarding the release of Prince's album The Gold Experience, a legal battle ensued between Warner Bros.Prince over the artistic and financial control of Prince's output.During the lawsuit, Prince appeared in public with the word "slave" written on his cheek.Prince explained his name change as follows:
The first step I have taken towards the ultimate goal of emancipation from the chains that bind me to Warner Bros.Prince is the name that my Mother gave me at birth.The company owns the name Prince and all related music marketed under Prince.Prince and did not want to adopt another conventional name.Critics have argued Prince's name change as an attempt by the artist to reinvent himself, providing an opportunity to redevelop his style.In 1980, it was risky to record new wave songs with lusty lyrics that assured no radio airplay (the classic Dirty Mind), but it paid off.Critics took notice and he became an underground favorite.But by heading for the ditch again, by changing his name and experimenting with his style, by lowering his stock value and escaping his record contract, Prince has become an underground artist again.In late 1996, the first collection of Prince music since his break with Warner Bros.It's no coincidence that he titled this album Emancipation.In 1994, Prince's attitude towards his artistic output underwent a notable shift.Love Symbol album, claiming that it was insufficiently marketed by Warner.The "new" release, which was already in wide circulation as a bootleg, sold relatively poorly.Following that disappointing venture, Warner Bros.Prince's wishes to release an album of new material, to be entitled Come.Prince pushed to have his next album The Gold Experience released simultaneously with Love Symbol era material.The Gold Experience, fearing poor sales and citing "market saturation" as a defense.When eventually released in September 1995, The Gold Experience failed to sell well, although it reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200 initially, and many reviewed it as Prince's best effort since Sign o' the Times.Chaos and Disorder, released in 1996, was Prince's final album of new material for Warner Bros.Prince attempted a major comeback later that year when, free of any further contractual obligations to Warner Bros.ASCAP, which he had used for all his records since 1981, but rather used Emancipated Music Inc.CD set (each disk was exactly 60 minutes long) lacked focus, and might have worked better as a single or double disc.Emancipation is the first record featuring coversby Prince of songs of other artists: Joan Osborne's Top Ten hit song of 1995 "One of Us".La Means I Love You" (written by Thomas Randolf Bell and William Hart).In 1999, Prince once again signed with a major label Arista Records to release a new record, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic.In an attempt to make his new album a success, Prince gave more interviews than at any other point in his career.Nevertheless Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic failed to perform commercially.The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale, a collection of unreleased material recorded by Prince throughout his career, and his final recording commitment on his contract with Warner Bros.The greatest success he had during the year was with the EP 1999: The New Master, released in time for Prince to collect a small portion of the sales dollars Warner Bros.Both critics and fans panned The New Master, declaring it unimaginative.Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic (as opposed to "Un2") was released exclusively through Prince's NPG Music Club in April 2000.In a press conference, he stated that, after being freed from an undesirable relationships associated with the name "Prince," and that he would formally revert to using his real name.For several following the release of Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic, Prince primarily released new music through his Internet subscription service, NPGOnlineLtd.Two albums that show substantive jazz influence were available commercially at record stores: 2001's The Rainbow Children and, later, the 2003 instrumental record N.In 2002, Prince released his first live album, One Nite Alone...CD box set, which also includes a disc of "aftershow" music entitled It Ain't Over!Some of these fan discussions were filmed for an unreleased documentary, directed by Kevin Smith.Smith discusses what happened during those days at length in his An Evening with Kevin Smith DVD.Alicia Keys, The Time, Erykah Badu, Nikka Costa, George Clinton, Norah Jones.The following month, Prince was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.As well as performing a trio of his own hits during the ceremony, Prince also participated in a tribute to fellow inductee George Harrison in a rendition of the deceased artist's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," playing a long guitar solo that ended the song.This deal was constructed in such a way that ensured Prince the majority of royalties (as he had become accustomed through his music subscription service).That same year, Pollstar named Prince the top concert draw among musicians in America.Prince's Musicology Tour was the most profitable tour in the music industry for 2004.In Dallas, Texas, Prince was surprised by a female audience member jumping out of her front row seat, getting onto the stage while he was singing, and kissing him.Vocal Performance for the title track.Album, while "Cinnamon Girl was nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.Greatest Artists of All Time.In April 2005, Prince played guitar (along with En Vogue singing backing vocals) on Stevie Wonder's single "So What The Fuss," Wonder's first since 1999.In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city of New Orleans on August 29, 2005, Prince offered a personal response by recording two new songs, "S.Prince again performed all instrumental and vocal parts.These recordings were quickly dispersed to the public via Prince's NPG Music Club, and "S.On October 25, Sony Records released a version of the single on CD.This article or section may contain an inappropriate mixture of prose and timeline.The song was covered by Viktoria Tolstoy on her album Pictures of Me, along with another Prince song, "Strollin'."Billboard 200 with the album.To promote the new album, Prince was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on February 4, 2006, sixteen and a half years after his last SNL appearance.Prince also held a contest to win a trip to see a 'Purple Ticket Concert' at his private residence in Hollywood, California.Seven winning tickets were placed inside 3121 CD packages in the US, and other tickets were given away in various contests on the internet and around the world.On June 12, 2006, Prince received a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his "visionary" use of the Internet; Prince was the first major artist to release an entire album, 1997's Crystal Ball, exclusively on the internet.Only weeks after winning a Webby Award), Prince abruptly shut down his official NPGMC website at 12:00 AM on July 4, 2006 after over five years of operatoin.In a world without limitations and infinite possibilities, has the time come 2 once again make a leap of faith and begin anew?On the day of the music club's shutdown, a lawsuit was filed against Prince by the British company HM Publishing (owners of the Nature Publishing Group, also NPG).Despite these events occurring on the same day, Prince's attorney has called it it pure coincidence and stated that the site did not close due to the trademark dispute.Prince appeared at multiple award ceremonies in 2006.On February 15, 2006, Prince performed at the BRIT Awards along with Wendy and Lisa and Sheila E.In addition to receiving his award, Prince performed a medley of Chaka Kahn songs for Kahn's BET Lifetime Award.Prince had previously written and performed several songs with the singer.On November 14, 2006, Prince was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, appearing to collect his award but not performing.He performed weekly on Friday and Saturday nights until April 2007.On August 22, 2006, Prince released Ultimate.The double disc set contains one CD of previous hits, the another of extended versions and mixes of old material that were largely previously unavailable.Prince wrote and performed a song for the hit 2006 animated film Happy Feet.The song, entitled "Song of the Heart," appears on the film's soundtrack, which also features a cover of Prince's early hit "Kiss," sung by Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.In January 2007, "Song of the Heart" won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song.Prince arrived late supposedly due to traffic problems and thus was unable to make an acceptance speech, but actor Hugh Grant prompted him later in the ceremony to take a bow.Recent news and appearances
On February 2, 2007, Prince played at the Super Bowl XLI press conference.Prince performed at the Super Bowl XLI halftime show in Miami, Florida on February 4, 2007.The performance consisted of three Purple Rain tracks ("Let's Go Crazy", "Baby I'm a Star" and the title track), along with cover versions of "All Along the Watchtower","Best of You" and "Proud Mary".The event was carried to 140 million television viewers, the largest audience of his life.It also holds the record of the most watched TV performance of the 21st century in the U.On May 8, 2007, Prince announced that he would play 21 concerts in London over the summer.The "Earth Tour" included 21 nights at the 20,000 capacity O2 Arena.Prince's latest album), in order to make the concerts "affordable for everybody".On May 10, 2007, Prince performed a 'secret' gig at London's Koko in front of a small crowd (between) fans and celebrities.There was controversy as one of the fans brought up on stage by Prince to dance later kissed him only to be ejected by one of his bouncers.Although it appeared it may have been an overreaction as Prince seemed to take the kiss in good humour.On June 5, 2007, Prince made an appearance at the 2007 ALMA Awards, performing with Sheila E.On June 28, 2007, the UK national newspaper The Mail on Sunday revealed that it had made a deal to give Prince's new album, Planet Earth, away for free with an "imminent" edition of the paper, making it the first place in the world to get the album.This move has sparked controversy among music distributors and has also led the UK arm of Prince's distributor, Sony BMG, to withdraw from distributing the album in UK stores.On July 7, 2007, Prince played three concerts in his hometown of Minneapolis.This concert coincided with the launch of his new perfume, 3121.On July 16, 2007, Prince was the surprise guest of Montreux Jazz Festival.On August 3, 2007, Prince was in Prague shooting a video for the song "Somewhere Here on Earth".The video has yet to air.On September 14, 2007, Prince announced that he was going to sue YouTube and eBay because they "appear to choose not to filter out the unauthorized music and film content which is core to their business success."This carries on ad nauseam at Prince's expense."Doug Lichtman, a lawyer for Prince released a statement saying, "above all, copyright law can welcome only those with pure motives.Those who abuse the law's caution have no claim for its mercy."On November 5, 2007, several fan sites of Prince formed Prince Fans United to fight back against legal requests made by Prince to cease and desist all use of photographs, images, lyrics, album covers and anything linked to Prince's likeness.While Prince's lawyers claim that the use of such representations are copyright infringement, the Prince Fans United claim that "they are attempts to stifle all critical commentary about Prince."Filmography
Prince's music has been featured in many films.This list includes films and videos releases in which Prince has either acted or performed, or to which he has actively contributed songs.Films that license preexisting Prince songs are not listed:
Purple Rain (1984): actor, composer
Prince and the Revolution LIVE!He married his backup singer and dancer, Mayte Garcia, on Valentine's Day, 1996.They had one son, Gregory, who was born with Pfeiffer syndrome and died shortly after birth.They were divorced in 1999.In 1997, Prince approached funk bassist Larry Graham, one of his childhood idols, with questions about his Jehovah's Witness faith.In a later interview, Graham stated that Prince was in need of Biblical answers and advice and the Graham he was glad to answer.Prince apparently became very interested in the religion: around this time he began censoring some of his more provocative song lyrics in concerts, as well as editing various religious references in his songs that he had recently learned were Biblically inaccurate.At this time, he also released of album The Rainbow Children, which relied heavily upon Jehovah's Witness religious themes.Aside from countless minor collaborations, Prince has contributed significantly to the work of numerous bands, musicians, and performers throughout his career.The Time and Vanity 6, that have given Prince the opportunity to release music under alternative artistic identities.Monikers
Prince often uses pseudonyms and monikers to separate himself from the music (either his own or that of others) he has had input in; he has said that he was tired of seeing his name everywhere, and that only egotistical people take credit for everything they do.Though credited to the "band," which did not exist at that time, Prince draws royalties for this work.On Madhouse's second album, some tunes were specified as being written by Prince, Sheila E."The Artist Formerly Known As Prince," and usually accredited to his then lawyer L."Let's Go Crazy" plays on a CD player in the background.The video is a home movie shot by his mother, Stephanie, in the family's rural Pennsylvania kitchen.The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.Prince and the Revolution is the subject of a famous Chappelle's Show sketch where Charlie Murphy tells the story of how he challenged Prince (played by Dave Chappelle) to a basketball game.Murphy had earlier mocked Prince's clothes, telling him he didn't buy his frilly shirts in the men's department.Prince then beat Murphy soundly in the basketball game without ever changing out of the shirt.In a 2004 interview for MTV, Prince denied wearing the shirt during the contest, but confirmed "the whupping's true."Prince was depicted as an Internet nerd on The Simpsons and his work has been referenced on the show on several occasions: on one episode the family named a puppy "The Puppy Formerly Known as Prince."Dreyfus) or his bodyguards (played by hosts Mr.Bill Paxton where Prince performs "Kiss" on a talk show hosted by Ted Nugent (Paxton) and gets shot with a crossbow; and, most recently, by Fred Armisen in the recurring sketch "The Prince Show" that started on the 29th season episode hosted by Drew Barrymore.Prince, Jack Nicholson (played by Pat Kilbane), and Steven Seagal (played by Will Sasso) have a sleepover and try to kick Eddie Murphy (played by Aries Spears) out of it.Prince is portrayed as a Scottish tramp, "busking" in Glasgow, and living "up the woods."In an episode of Muppets Tonight, when Prince is trying to get past Bobo to get backstage for the show, he claims he's "the artist formerly known as Prince," Bobo retorts by saying, "and I'm the bear currently known as not amused."He also confuses his symbol for an ink blot test.Jagged Edge's "Freaky Thangs," and Kanye West's "Stronger"
In the episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius where Jimmy, Sheen, and Carl enter the annual school talent contest, Sheen demands that he be referred to as "The Artist Formerly Known as Sheen.""Music From the Violet Room" after a misinterpreted Prince lyric in "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" from Sign o' the Times.In a sketch of Big Train, Prince (as a carnivore) stalks a herd of horseracing jockeys in the African wilderness, eventually killing one and feeding on its carcass.Pop artist Darren Hayes attributed his decision to record his double album This Delicate Thing We've Made to the influence that Prince's album Sign o' the Times had on him as a child.Prince is spoofed as The Administrator Formerly Known as Principal in Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth.In one of the Robert Townsend and His Partners in Crime series, Keenan Ivory Wayans spoofs Prince as "Prince Jones" (with Robert Townsend as "Michael Davis" aka Michael Jackson) in "Rock Cops."In one scene, Prince taunts Michael with the puppet used in Purple Rain, to which Michael shouts "Get rid of that puppet.Prince snaps back "As soon as you get rid of this zoo!"In a sketch from The Kids in the Hall, Scott Thompson plays a entertainment critic named Weston.During his rambling about different artists, he includes Prince saying, "Apparently, the purple clad, gender vending, rock star, Prince, is not really a prince at all.Sign O' the Times and the Batman soundtrack are mentioned in Shaun of the Dead as the characters pick albums to throw at zombies."Prince: Inside the Purple Reign", Collier Books, 1984."Possessed: The Rise And Fall Of Prince", Billboard Books, 2003."Possessed: The Rise And Fall Of Prince", Billboard Books, 2003.BMI credits for "Betcha By Golly Wow!""Possessed: The Rise And Fall Of Prince", Billboard Books, 2003.Prince's Wife, Manuela, Filed for Divorce at people.Online Prince's official website
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