biography
| name: |
Prince
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stage name by which Prince Roger Nelson is most widely known
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1958– )
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| biography:
| Pop-singer and composer, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Named after the Prince Roger Trio, a jazz band in which his father was a pianist, he was signed to Warner Brother Records as a teenager, and released For You in 1978. Subsequent albums included Prince (1979), Dirty Mind (1980), and Controversy (1981), which attracted increasing controversy with their tendency to mix religious and overtly sexual themes. International success followed the release of 1999 (1982), the film and album Purple Rain (1984), and Batman (1989), which confirmed him as one of America's most commercially successful pop artists. He changed his name to the unpronounceable glyph O(+> in 1993, and has since adopted the designation of The Artist (formerly known as Prince). |
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