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Prince Rogers Nelson (born June 7, 1958, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American pop musician. He performs simply as Prince, but has ... been known by various other names, among them an unpronounceable symbol and The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.
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Prince Rogers Nelson (born June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis, MN) is an iconic, award-winning American musician. He is best known for performing under the name Prince, though his name and identity have varied for strong personal reasons over the years.
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Born and raised in Minneapolis, Prince Rogers Nelson received his name from his father, jazz musician John Nelson, who was a performer in the Prince Rogers Trio. In constrast to the privileged status implied by such a name, the young Prince was saddled with a run-of-the-mill crappy childhood, and after his parents' divorce he left home to escape a combative relationship with his stepfather. During a brief period where he once again lived with his father, he was given his first guitar, initiating an enduring interest in composition and performance; the remainder of his childhood was spent living with one of the married couples in his neighborhood, and it was with their son, André Anderson, that Prince formed his first band Grand Central. The outfit -- which ... included Prince's cousin Charles Smith, friend Morris Day and André's sister Linda -- received some musical tutoring from Pepé Willie, a musician married to one of Prince's older cousins who would later provide both Prince and André with their first recording opportunities as session players for the band 94 East. By their high school years the members of Grand Central had re-invented themselves as Champagne, switching their focus from covers to self-written material. Despite some success as a live act in the Minneapolis area, Champagne would dissolve before any recordings were made.
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Prince Rogers Nelson was born and raised in Minneapolis. He was named after his jazz musician father. The product of a broken home, Prince found refuge in music. By his early teens he’d mastered multiple instruments and was fronting his first band, Grand Central. A demo tape by the young prodigy resulted in major-label interest, and an 18-year-old Prince signed to Warner Bros., insisting on the right to self-produce. His first two albums, For You (1978) and Prince (1979), unveiled a budding genius and one-man band.
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Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at Mount Sinai Hospital on Saturday June 7, 1958, to John L. Nelson and Mattie Shaw.[1] 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.
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The Artist was born Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis on June 7, 1958. His parents were both musical, and he was named after his father's jazz combo, the Prince Rogers Trio. After his parents' divorce, Nelson's home life was difficult; he lived sometimes with his mother and stepfather, sometimes with his father, and sometimes with family friends. By the time he was a teenager, the years of being passed (or running) from home to home had taken an emotional toll. He withdrew into music, mastering by some accounts a dozen instruments by ear, and ... into pornographic writings. The young musician was "a volcano of emotion boiling under the surface," a friend of his said in People.
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