Prince

Quick Facts

Full Name	Prince
Occupation	R&B Singer
Date Of Birth	Jun 7, 1958(1958-06-07)
Age	66
Date Of Death	2016-04-21
Birthplace	Minneapolis
Country	United States
Birth City	Minnesota
Horoscope	Gemini

Prince Biography

Prince is one of the most popular and richest R &B Singer who was born on June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. This acclaimed recording artist was born Prince Rogers Nelson and released ten platinum-selling records. For his hit song “Purple Rain,” he won several Grammy Awards, including Best Performance and Best Soundtrack.

He played the guitar on the In 2005, he played guitar on the Stevie Wonder single “So What the Fuss.” song “So What the Fuss” in 2005.

Prince Rogers Nelson was born on June 7, 1958, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of jazz singer Mattie Della (née Shaw) and pianist and songwriter John Lewis Nelson. All four of his grandparents hailed from Louisiana. Prince was given his father’s stage name, Prince Rogers, which his father used while performing with his mother in a jazz group called the Prince Rogers Trio. In 1991, Prince’s father told A Current Affair that he named his son Prince because he wanted Prince “to do everything I wanted to do”. Prince was not fond of his name and wanted people to instead call him Skipper, a name which stuck throughout his childhood. Prince has said he was “born epileptic” and had seizures when he was young. He stated, “My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, ‘Mom, I’m not going to be sick anymore,’ and she said, ‘Why?’ and I said, ‘Because an angel told me so.'”

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer- songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, actor, and filmmaker. A guitar virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist known for his eclectic genre-crossing work, flamboyant and androgynous persona, and his far reaching falsetto and high- pitched screams, Prince is regarded as one of the greatest musicians of his generation. His innovative music integrated a wide variety of styles, including funk, R&B, rock, new wave, soul, psychedelia, and pop. Prince pioneered the late 1970s Minneapolis sound, a funk rock subgenre drawing from synth-pop and new wave.

On February 14, 1996, he married actress Mayte Garca. Later, he married Manuela Testolini December 31, 2001. They later divorced in 2006.

Prince Net Worth

Prince is one of the richest R &B Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Prince 's net worth $300 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As a child, he suffered from epilepsy and started writing music at the age of seven. He worked with 94 East as one of his first groups.

He was well-known for his thirty Top Forty singles and became an international symbol of sex.

Nielsen Music reported an initial sales spike of 42,000 percent of his material. The artist’s catalog sold 4.41 million albums and songs from April 21 to 28, with five albums simultaneously in the top ten of the Billboard 200, a first in the chart’s history. At the 59th Grammy Awards, Morris Day with the Time and Bruno Mars performed a tribute.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Prince height 5 ft 3 in Prince weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Prince Dating?

According to our records, Prince married to Manuela Testolini , Mayte Garcia. As of December 1, 2023, Prince’s is not dating anyone.

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Born and raised in Minneapolis, Prince developed an interest in music as a young child and wrote his first song, “Funk Machine”, at the age of seven. He signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records at the age of 19, and released his debut album For You in 1978. Following up with his next four albums—Prince (1979), Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981), and 1999 (1982)—Prince gained critical success, prominently showcasing his explicit lyrics as well as his blending of funk, dance, and rock music. In 1984, he began referring to his backup band as The Revolution and released his sixth album Purple Rain, which was also the soundtrack to his hugely successful film acting debut of the same name. It quickly became his most commercially successful record, spending 24 consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200. The film itself was critically and commercially successful and also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song Score, the last film to receive the award.

Facts & Trivia

Prince Ranked on the list of most popular R &B Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Prince celebrates birthday on June 7 of every year.

In 1979, Prince created a band with André Cymone on bass, Dez Dickerson on guitar, Gayle Chapman and Doctor Fink on keyboards, and Bobby Z. on drums. Their first show was at the Capri Theater on January 5, 1979. Warner Bros. executives attended the show but decided that Prince and the band needed more time to develop his music. In October 1979, Prince released the album Prince, which was No. 4 on the Billboard Top R&B/Black Albums charts and No. 22 on the Billboard 200, and went platinum. It contained two R&B hits: “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?” and “I Wanna Be Your Lover”, which sold over a million copies, and reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 for two weeks on the Hot Soul Singles chart. Prince performed both these songs on January 26, 1980, on American Bandstand. On this album, Prince used Ecnirp Music – BMI.

What was Prince's name when he died?

Prince
Died| April 21, 2016 (aged 57) Chanhassen, Minnesota, U.S.
Cause of death| Accidental fentanyl overdose

How old would Prince be right now?

How old is Prince now? Prince would have celebrated his 63rd birthday in 2021.

What nationality is Prince?

American

Who had more hits Michael Jackson or Prince?

Yes, Jackson does reign with the top-selling album (“Thriller,” 32 million copies sold in America) and ranks seventh among artists for all-times sales (79 million). Prince, meanwhile, languishes far down the list (20.5 million) — below lesser fads such as Meat Loaf, Nelly and Nickelback. I shouldn’t care so much.

Did Prince have a wife?

Wife