Prince children
- •
Prince (musician)
American musician (1958–2016)
This article is about the American singer and musician. For other uses, see Prince (disambiguation).
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016), known mononymously as Prince, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. The recipient of numerous awards and nominations, he is regarded as one of the greatest musicians of his generation.[7] He was known for his flamboyant, androgynous persona;[8][9] his wide vocal range, which included a far-reaching falsetto and high-pitched screams; and his skill as a multi-instrumentalist, often preferring to play all or most of the instruments on his recordings.[10] His music incorporated a wide variety of styles, including funk, R&B, rock, new wave, soul, synth-pop, pop, jazz, blues, and hip hop. Prince produced his albums himself, pioneering the Minneapolis sound.
Born and raised in Minneapolis, Prince signed a record deal with Warner Bros. Records at the age of 18, soon releasing the studio albums For You The Prince Rogers Trio / Photo by John F. Glanton, courtesy Hennepin County Library Mattie Shaw and Prince / Copyright The Prince Estate Prince’s parents, John Lewis Nelson and Mattie Della Shaw, found one another through music, and when their child was born they gave him John’s stage name, Prince Rogers. In the 1950s John Nelson had made a name for himself in the music scene playing piano and leading the Prince Rogers Trio, a jazz group who would play in clubs and community centers on the North Side like the Phyllis Wheatley House, a historic building that opened in 1924 to provide social services for African-American families moving to North Minneapolis. It was while he was playing with his group at the Blue Note jazz club that he first met Prince’s mother, Mattie, and recruited her to sing in his band. Their musical union developed into a romantic partnership aka aka The Artist Formerly Known As Prince aka T.A.F.K.A.P. While he had several monikers and used a symbol rather than a name for the better part of a decade, Prince Rogers Nelson is mostly credited as Prince. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Prince was a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, producer and filmmaker who sold millions of Rock and Pop records, including definitive recordings in the New Wave, Funk, R&B and Dance music. The son of an amateur pianist and songwriter father and a vocalist mother, Prince began to teach himself the piano when his parents divorced and his father moved out of the house and left his piano behind. Prince would go on to master guitar, bass and drums and become a formidable vocalist before hitting the stages of Minneapolis clubs. Prince began his career in the same scene that spawned Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the prod
•
Min-
nea
polisRead
his StoryPrince Rogers Nelson was born on June 7, 1958, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a city with a rich and surprisingly complex history that would shape the young artist in significant ways.
•
TeachRock
Birth name: Prince Rogers Nelson
Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota
June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016
Years Active: June 7, 1978 (Released first single on Warner Bros.) – April 21, 2016
Copyright ©figloop.pages.dev 2025