Prince Rogers Nelson

American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and actor.

He was known mononymously as [a=Prince]. From 1994 to 2000 he used an unpronounceable symbol as name referred by others as [a293637].

The son of [a=John L. Nelson] and Matti Della Shaw was born on June 7th 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Two years later his sister [a=Tyka Nelson] was born.

In 1976, he started work on a demo tape with producer [url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/577934-Chris-Moon-2]Chris Moon[/url] in a Minneapolis studio. Prince also had the patronage of [a2458991] (of [a1044210]), to whom Moon introduced him, a connection that helped him produce a high-quality demo recording. 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 [l1000] as they were the only label to offer Prince creative control of his songs.

He was married to [a=Mayte] (from 1996 to 2000) and to [a3190790] (from 2001 2006). On 21 April 2016 Prince passed away at [l269869].