Released album “Timeless”.
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Prince Rogers Nelson, known mononymously as Prince, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, actor, and filmmaker. Often credited as one of the greatest musicians of his generation, he pioneered the Minneapolis sound and was influential in the evolution of various other genres.
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entertainment · American musician and songwriter (1958–2016) · film actor · singer · film director · singer-songwriter · screenwriter · record producer · film score composer · film producer · multi-instrumentalist · dancer · also Prince, Prince (musician), Jamie Starr, Christopher, Alexander Nevermind, The Purple One
Born 7 June 1958 · Died 21 April 2016 · Q7542
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2026· 14 entries
“I would tell any young artist...don”
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“Maybe at one time they could get Little Richard for a new car and a bucket of chicken. We don’t roll like that no more.”
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Vanity Fair: Prince Harry Sends Princess Diana's Legacy Funding to the Elephants
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Published video “Let us know what your favorite Prince moves are, and pre-order Timeless at prince.lnk.to/timeless”.
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Published video “The 90s were a time of personal and transformative change in Prince's life and career. Timeless 8/28”.
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Published video “On this day in 1985, the 12" version of Pop Life was released in the US.”.
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Published video “Olivia Dean covers “I Wanna Be Your Lover” in Minneapolis. 💜”.
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Published video “What's your favorite 80s Prince album and track? ☔️💜”.
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Published video “As we prepare for Timeless, we're looking back to the 70s where Prince's iconic journey began!”.
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Published video “Be sure to stop by the NPG Music Club Café 💜”.
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Published video “The previously unreleased studio recording of “With This Tear” from Prince’s legendary vault.”.
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Published video “On this day in 1995, The Versace Experience: Prelude to Gold, was given away at Paris Fashion Week.”.
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Published video “On this day in 1992, Prince released “Sexy M.F.””.
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2025· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “During Sean "Diddy" Combs' federal sex-trafficking trial in New York in May 2025, prosecutors presented a recording from Prince's final days alive, in which he divulged details of Combs' alleged illicit activities at past parties.” False.
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2024· 2 entries
Awarded Songwriters Hall of Fame (2024).
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On November 4, 2024, musician Tyka Nelson, who was Prince's only full sibling, died.
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2023· 3 entries
Released album “Live at Glam Slam”.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Music superstar Prince once said, "Money won't buy you happiness, but it'll pay for the search."” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “Before Prince's Super Bowl performance on Feb. 4, 2007, he put on an impromptu show for reporters instead of answering their questions at a news conference.” True.
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2021· 2 entries
Released album “Welcome 2 America”.
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In July 2021, Omarr Baker and late half brother Alfred Jackson's interest would sell all of the shares they owned of Prince's estate to Primary Wave Music, while Tyka Nelson would sell 90%.
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2020· 2 entries
Released album “Up All Nite With Prince (The One Nite Alone Collection)”.
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Released album “One Nite Alone… The Aftershow: It Ain’t Over!”.
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2019· 5 entries
Released album “The VERSACE Experience: Prelude 2 Gold”.
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Released album “Originals”.
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Africa Check rated the claim “Prince built Nike’s brand” Incorrect.
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Released album “Ultimate Rave”.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Prince invested in Nike in 1971, recruited Michael Jordan to the company in 1983 and designed the first Air Jordans.” Pants on Fire.
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2018· 4 entries
Released album “Piano & a Microphone 1983”.
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Released album “Anthology: 1995-2010”.
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Awarded honorary doctorate presented by University of Minnesota (2018).
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The Carver County Attorney announced that the multi-agency investigation had ended with no criminal charges filed
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2016· 11 entries
Released album “4Ever”.
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Snopes rated the claim “The White House was illuminated purple the night Prince died but did nothing when five police officers were killed in Dallas.” Mostly False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Prince's music vault contains 37,000 hours of Bill Joel cover songs.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Landmarks all over the world were bathed in purple light to honor Prince after his death in April 2016.” Mixture.
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Snopes rated the claim “Musician Prince Rogers Nelson and actor Haywood Nelson are half brothers.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Prince invested in Nike in 1971, recruited NBA star Michael Jordan to the company in 1983, and designed the first Air Jordan shoe.” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “When someone asked Eric Clapton what it was like to be the greatest guitar player in the world, he responded: "I don't know, ask Prince."” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Prince said that he voted Republican because that political party knows the value of hard work.” False.
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At the age of 57, Prince died at his Paisley Park home and recording studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota, after accidentally overdosing on counterfeit hydrocodone/paracetamol pills which were laced with fentanyl
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Died 2016-04-21.
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Prince's representatives called Howard Kornfeld, a California specialist in addiction medicine and pain management, seeking medical help for the musician
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2015· 5 entries
Released album “HITnRUN Phase Two”.
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On the music streaming service Tidal before being released on CD and for download on September 14
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Released album “HITnRUN Phase One”.
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Billboard ranked it the greatest Super Bowl performance ever
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“Albums—remember those? Albums still matter. Albums, like books and black lives, still matter.”
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2014· 4 entries
Released album “Art Official Age”.
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Released album “PLECTRUMELECTRUM”.
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Prince released a new single entitled "The Breakdown"
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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the album
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2013· 1 entry
Prince released a new solo single for download through the 3rdeyegirl
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “Original Album Series”.
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2011· 4 entries
As part of a club remixes package including the Bria Valente CD single "2 Nite" released on February 23, 2012
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Released a reworked version of the previously unreleased song "Extraloveable" through both iTunes and Spotify
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Marking his first UK show since 2007 and his first-ever UK festival appearance
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Released album “The Cookhouse Five”.
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2010· 3 entries
Released album “20Ten”.
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Prince began his 20Ten Tour, a concert tour in two legs, with shows in Europe
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Prince was included in Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people
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2009· 3 entries
Gave two surprise concerts at the Grand Palais in Paris
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Released album “Lotusflow3r”.
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Followed by a physical release on March 29
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Indigo Nights”.
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Prince performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where he debuted a new song, "Turn Me Loose"
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2007· 4 entries
Released album “Planet Earth”.
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Prince returned to Minneapolis to perform three shows
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song (2007).
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Prince played at the Super Bowl XLI halftime show in Miami, on a large stage in the shape of his symbol
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2006· 6 entries
Prince released Ultimate, a greatest-hits album
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Released album “Ultimate”.
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Awarded Webby Lifetime Achievement Award (2006).
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Released album “3121”.
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17 years after his last SNL appearance on the 15th-anniversary special, and nearly 25 years since his first appearance on a regular episode in 1981
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Prince's half sister Lorna died in 2006.
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2005· 1 entry
Released ep “Live From Paisley Park EP”.
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2004· 7 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2004).
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Released album “Musicology”.
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Released album “Trax From the NPG Music Club, Volume One: The Chocolate Invasion”.
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Released album “The Slaughterhouse: Trax From the NPG Music Club, Volume 2”.
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Released album “C-Note”.
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Prince appeared at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards with Beyoncé
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The Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2016, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2024, and twice into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame in 2022
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2003· 4 entries
Released album “Live at the Aladdin Las Vegas”.
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Released album “N.E.W.S.”.
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Released album “Xpectation”.
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Released ep “Live at the Aladdin Las Vegas Sampler”.
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “One Nite Alone… Live!”.
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Released album “One Nite Alone…”.
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Prince released his first live album, One Nite Alone
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2001· 5 entries
Released album “The Rainbow Children”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Prince”.
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Released album “Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic”.
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Released album “NPGMC Edition #2”.
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Released album “NPGMC Edition #1”.
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2000· 4 entries
Prince stopped using the Love Symbol as his name, since his publishing contract with Warner Bros
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Released album “Rave Un2 the Year 2000”.
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Released album “Dream Factory”.
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“The company owns the name Prince and all related music marketed under Prince. I became merely a pawn used to produce more money for Warner Bros.”
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1999· 5 entries
And consisted of footage from the December 17 and 18 concerts of his 1999 tour
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Released album “Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic”.
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Released album “The Vault… Old Friends 4 Sale”.
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Prince once again signed with a major label, Arista Records, to release a new record, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
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Prince reverted to his original name in 2000 and continued releasing albums, including the double Grammy Award-winning Musicology in 2004
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “The Truth”.
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1996· 8 entries
Released album “Past, Present & Future”.
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Released album “Emancipation”.
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Released album “Chaos and Disorder”.
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Released album “Girl 6”.
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Released album “Embraced by the Light”.
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According to García, she and Prince had a son named Amiir, who was born on October 16, 1996.
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The album Chaos and Disorder was released
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Released album “Brave New World”.
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1995· 4 entries
Released album “The Gold Experience”.
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Released album “The Dawn”.
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Released album “Neon”.
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Released album “Symbolic Beginning”.
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1994· 4 entries
Released album “Come”.
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Released album “Diamonds and Pearls & [Love Symbol]”.
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Released album “The 12″ Singles Collection”.
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Released album “Now”.
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1993· 10 entries
Released album “The Hits 2”.
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Released album “The Hits / The B-Sides”.
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Released album “The Hits 1”.
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Released album “The Undertaker”.
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Released album “Neon Rendezvous”.
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Released album “Blue”.
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Released album “Sometimes It Snows in April”.
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Released album “The Jewel Box II”.
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Released album “Yellow”.
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In the midst of a contractual dispute with Warner Bros
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1992· 5 entries
Released album “[Love Symbol]”.
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Following the success of Diamonds and Pearls, Prince renewed his contract with Warner Bros
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Released album “Extended Member of the Royal Household”.
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Released album “Martika’s Kitchen”.
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Released album “The Crown Jewels”.
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1991· 5 entries
Released ep “Gett Off Remix EP”.
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Released album “Diamonds and Pearls”.
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Prince's father told A Current Affair that he named his son "Prince" because he wanted Prince "to do everything I wanted to do"
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Released album “Right Eye: Demos, Vol. 3”.
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Released album “Cookie Jar”.
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1990· 6 entries
The album reached number six on the Billboard 200 and R&B albums chart
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Released album “Graffiti Bridge”.
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Prince finished production on his fourth film, Graffiti Bridge, and its eponymous soundtrack
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Released album “Hot Chocolate”.
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Prince went back on tour with a revamped band for his back-to-basics Nude Tour
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Released album “Crystal Ball”.
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1989· 4 entries
Released album “Batman”.
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Released album “Crucial”.
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Released album “[The Black Album]”.
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Prince appeared on Madonna's studio album Like a Prayer, co-writing and singing the duet "Love Song" and playing electric guitar without being credited on the songs "Like a Prayer", "Keep It Together", and "Act of Contri
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1988· 3 entries
Lovesexy serves as a spiritual opposite to the dark The Black Album
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Released album “Lovesexy”.
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Released album “Sign “☮︎” the Times”.
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1987· 5 entries
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song for Love or Money (1987).
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Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor for Under the Cherry Moon (1987).
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Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director for Under the Cherry Moon (1987).
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Sign o' the Times, widely considered his greatest work and one of the greatest albums of all time
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Released album “Charade”.
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1986· 3 entries
Released album “Parade”.
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His album Parade, the soundtrack for the movie Under the Cherry Moon released in the same year, reached number three on the Billboard 200 and number two on the R&B charts
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Prince began a series of live performances called the Parade Tour
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1985· 5 entries
Released album “Live”.
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song Score for Purple Rain (1985).
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Released album “Around the World in a Day”.
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Prince released Around the World in a Day, which held the number-one spot on the Billboard 200 for three weeks
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Released ep “His Majesty’s Pop Life / The Purple Mix Club”.
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1984· 5 entries
Released album “Purple Rain”.
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This resulted in the hit film Purple Rain—which starred Prince and was loosely autobiographical—and the eponymous studio album, which was also the soundtrack to the film
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Prince became the first singer to simultaneously have a number-one film, album and single in the United States, with Purple Rain, its soundtrack, and "When Doves Cry"
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Pop artist Andy Warhol created the painting Orange Prince
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“s silkscreen image of Prince with its pop colors captured Prince”
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Dirty Mind / Controversy”.
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “1999”.
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “Controversy”.
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Prince formed a side project band called The Time
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1980· 2 entries
Released album “Dirty Mind”.
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And then on American Bandstand on January 26
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1979· 3 entries
Released album “Prince”.
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Prince released the album Prince, which reached number three on the Billboard Top R&B/Black Albums chart and number 22 on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum
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Prince formed his first band, with André Cymone on bass, Dez Dickerson on guitar, Gayle Chapman and Doctor Fink on keyboards, and Bobby Z
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “For You”.
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1976· 2 entries
Studied at Central High School (1976).
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Shortly after graduating from Central High School, Prince created a demo tape with producer Chris Moon, in Moon's Minneapolis studio
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1975· 1 entry
Pepe Willie, the husband of one of Prince's cousins, formed the band 94 East with Marcy Ingvoldstad and Kristie Lazenberry, hiring André Cymone and Prince to record tracks
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1958· 2 entries
To jazz singer Mattie Della (née Shaw) and pianist and songwriter John Lewis Nelson
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Born 1958-06-07.
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1929· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons.
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