Prince Roger Nelson was born on 7th June 1958 in Minnesota, USA and died on 21st April 2016. Apart from singing, he also wrote songs, was a dancer and a musician.
Prince’s career began in 1978 when his first single ‘Soft and Wet’ was released. A year later, another song was issued named ‘I Wanna be your Lover’, which was an American R & B singles chart number one hit. His third album followed in 1980.
During the 80’s, Prince became more successful internationally with further number one hits like ‘When Doves Cry’, ‘Let’s Go Crazy’, ‘Kiss’ and ‘Batdance’. In addition, he also had three songs which reached number two, namely ‘Raspberry Beret’, ‘U got the Look’ and ‘Purple Rain’.
Prince had the song ‘Nothing compares 2 U’ which was released as a cover version by Sinead O’Connor in 1990. It was a number one hit for her and naturally, Prince was not happy about it at all!
In the following 2½ decades until his demise, Prince released around 40 albums, spread amongst studio, compilation, live, remixes and New Power Generation. He also starred in 4 films, 3 of which he directed as well and appeared in a couple of TV shows.
Just 2 weeks before his death, Prince cancelled two concerts, claiming he had the flu. He gave his last performance a week later, in spite of still feeling unwell. He passed away in his own home from a medicinal drug overdose.
Prince was honoured with 7 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award and 4 MTV Video Music Awards during his 40-year music career.