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Minneapolis, United States
His music has spanned myriad styles; from his early material, rooted in funk and soul, he has constantly expanded his musical palette throughout his career, absorbing many other genres including new wave, pop, rock, blues, jazz and hip hop. Born in Minneapolis, he has based his entire career in Minnesota. He now resides in Los Angeles.
The distinctive characteristics of the early-to-mid 1980s work that raised him to super-stardom - which includes industrial sounding drum machine arrangements, the use of synthesizer riffs to serve the role of horn riffs traditionally used in earlier R&B, funk and soul music - became known as “the Minneapolis sound,”. He has a reputation as a workaholic, having released over a thousand songs both under his own name and through other artists, and is known for having composed and recorded many more songs that remain unreleased. Regarded as a perfectionist, Prince has a reputation as being somewhat difficult to work with and for being highly protective of his music. He writes, composes and produces most of his music single-handedly. He also plays most of the instruments on his albums.
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g3red wrote:
Im so funky I can’t even SLEEP with myself <3 :D
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no_co_ty wrote:
The best!!! Musician genious
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The-Gentleman wrote:
The ONLY artist I can ALWAYS play. MPLSoUND has a sexy album cover also. <3
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Kamas01 wrote:
Best!
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vargas_girl wrote:
how is his voice abysmal? He puts so much emotion into it and has incredible range. Not to mention he has the sexiest vocal delivery ever.
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RAWmentality wrote:
prince is amazing <3
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countrygirl67 wrote:
Prince is truly one of the best!!!!!!!!!!!!
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HerrHerr wrote:
i find it rather charming.
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futhamucka wrote:
Prince's voice is abysmal.
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TraumaSponge wrote:
Does anyone remember when Prince said "They called it Bad because there isn't room on the label for Pathetic"?
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marination wrote:
he doesn't have to show his feelings just because he is an artist :D
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trueiopian wrote:
??? He never released a statement when his idol (James Brown) died so I wouldn't expect him to say a thing about MJ's passing....
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Helloyoumars wrote:
No one should have to say they're sad when their friend dies. You take it as red.
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megansmall wrote:
To show his feelings for Michael, duh ? :3
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BlackCoffeeDuck wrote:
Why should he release a statement? [4]
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marination wrote:
Why should he release a statement? [3] ;x
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trueiopian wrote:
Why should he release a statement? [2]
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Adrian956 wrote:
little red corvette nigga
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Helloyoumars wrote:
Why should he release a statement?
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Auditorium Stravinski, Montreux, Switzerland
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Citibank Hall, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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