Singer Prince Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. In the photo: Prince Rogers Nelson Prince Rogers Nelson, the owner of seven Grammy awards, six American Music Awards, “Golden Globe” for the song “The Song of the Heart” to the animated melodrama “Doing the legs” and “Oscars” for the soundtrack “Purple Rain ”, where he starred as an actor for his life wrote more compositions of compositions than The Beatles and recorded more than 30 albums.

Prince was famous for the ability to play on a professional level on almost any tool, a wide vocal range, a unique personality, an enchanting show on the stage, bright makeup, extravagant hairstyles and outfits, the ability to improvise and bring the public to madness, then to the state of trance of crystal beauty. Childhood is a future virtuoso musician, inferior in its genre in popularity only Michael Jackson, but surpassing it in elitism, was born on June 7 in Minneapolis.

His mother, Matti della, sang in her husband’s jazz group. Father, John Nelson, was a composer, pianist and author of songs under the creative pseudonym Prince Rogers. He gave the same name to his son. In the boy, the only sister of Tika Yven appeared. Together with her, they dreamed that when they grow up, they would become jazzmen like dad and mother: he would play, and she will sing.

Their dream came true. Prince in childhood the first song “Funk Machine” wrote the boy at 7 years old, having mastered the piano at that time at that time, then on the guitar and percussion instruments. When he turned 10 years old, his parents divorced, created new families, and subsequently he had two more brothers from his mother and two sisters and brother along the father’s line.

After breaking up his parents, he lived mainly with his mother, but because of a difficult relationship with her new husband, he often moved to his father. Soon he made friends with his neighbors and moved to accommodation in the basement of their house. Despite the low growth, the prince was a very talented basketball player besides music training, while studying at Bryant Junior High School, and then in Central High School the gifted guy loved to play football, baseball and, despite a low height, was a very talented basketball player.

He even played for one of the best school teams in the state of Minnesota. In high school, together with Andre, they created the Grand Central group. In addition, knowing how to play on different tools and sing, he began to participate in performances of different groups in bars and clubs, and also became a student of the dance theater as part of the City Art program, operating in his city for public schools.

The development of a career in a young talent, who graduated from school, invited the cousin’s husband in his group “94 East”. A year later, the young man prepared a demos, which aroused interest among several recording companies, including Warner Bros. With the first of the labels mentioned, he signed a contract, left his hometown and moved to Sausalito, California.

A year later, he released his first album for You, acting simultaneously as an author-performer, arranger and producer. The prince in his youth, the artist’s early work, demonstrated the innovation of his music, originally combining separate directions, in particular, dance, with a pulsating rhythm of the funk and lyrical melodic soul. Subsequently, there was no end to the musician’s experiments with forms and genres.

The Revolution created his second group in the prince and presented his second “Prince” disc, reaching the Billboard Prince - “I Wanna Be your Lover” chart of the musician Dirty Mind, containing amazing, sexy and shocking compositions. It was certified as gold, and the Uptown single took the fifth position in the Billboard Dance charts and in Hot Soul Singles. The musician’s fans met his next fourth album “Controversy”, which included no less provocative creations and became Platinov.

A violent reaction was caused not only by the non -standard music of the popular artist, but also by his extravagant stage images. When, in Los Angeles, on the warm-up of the Rolling Stones group, Prince appeared in shoes with tall heels, in a bikini on top of the gamash and in a short jacket resembling a greatcoat, the audience threw it with garbage, and he was forced to leave the stage.

The rumor began to be executed in the media about his unconventional orientation, but, despite this, the musician continued to shock the audience with his ambiguous costumes. Extravagant stage images of Prince caused a violent reaction in the public in parallel with the main solo work, he collaborated with the group of The Time, led by the author-performer Morris Dayem. In the beginning, the prince made a small tour of the cities of the United States, and in the fall he released the disc "".

In his title composition, which became the first hit of the singer abroad, a protest sounded against the spread of nuclear weapons. Jackson, who got into a rotation on MTV. The song "Delirious" entered the top ten leaders of the HOT chart, and for the "International Lover" it was first nominated for Grammy.In the fall of the year, the prince released his protest disc “” The artist’s popularity reached its peak with the appearance of the musical drama “Purple Rain” in the year, where he played the main role, and the studio disk of the same name, which became the soundtrack for the film.

He was a leader in Billboard for six months, brought the author of 3 Grammy and Oscar awards for the best score. Works with this record have become world hits. The album itself was awarded the place in the list of the greatest albums of all time according to Rolling Stone. Prince - “When Doves Cry” announcing a temporary pause in performances and in creating clips, musical virtuoso already in April released the seventh record “Around the World in a day”, where he presented creative new products in the “Neopores” style.

The disk held first place on Billboard for three weeks. The Raspberry Beret single took the second position on the Billboard Hot and, according to a number of experts, was later recognized as the most ideal in the singer’s career. He saw the light in, reached the third position in Billboard, served as the soundtrack for the second film with his participation “Under the Cherry Moon” “Under the Cherry Moon” and became platinum.

The single “Kiss” was the leader in the Hot chart from him and later brought the author the next Grammy. Prince - “kiss” The second half of the X was marked by the work of the singer over the creation of new music, the aesthetics of which went beyond traditional norms in musical art. The Batman record, created two years later, was simultaneously the soundtrack for the same film and became the third album of the singer, who was at the top of the Billboard chart first place in Billboard Hot was also taken by the song “Batdance” from this disk, the number of copies of which exceeded 4.3 million.

At the same time, he was engaged in other musical projects, became a co -author and performer in a duet with a master songs for her Like A Prayer disk. The soundtrack for the film "Batman" wrote a prince in he performed a tour of Europe and Japan, completed the production of the fourth movie Graffiti Bridge and the album of the same name. He reached the first place in the chart of Britain, the sixth in Billboard and subsequently found the status of gold in the States, Great Britain and Canada.

The film "Graffiti Bridge" with Prince in the title role was nominated for five anti -aircraft "Golden Raspberry". Prince and his group The New Power Generation, two years later, the singer’s fans met his new album with an unpronounceable name, consisting of a combination of symbols of Venus and Mars of Women's and Male Principles. This symbol became its new creative pseudonym and marked the period of the release of lyrical compositions, including Gold from the disk The Gold Experience, which received moderate reviews.

He again created under his own name in the singer and continued experiments with musical directions, introducing the pressed disc “The Rainbow Children”. The enthusiastic emotions of the audience finally returned with the advent of the author-performer in the th Album of the Musicology. The prince is the owner of many awards and awards by an unforgettable action was the performance of Prince in the Dolfin Stadium stadium in Miami, when during the rain, his execution of the Purple Rain superchite was accompanied by the light of purple spotlights.

The performance of Prince in the year in the stadium in the rain with the Purple Rain superchite, although its compositions did not always reach the highest positions in the charts, his name appeared in the works of the then charts of tops, for example, in Eminem's song “Without Me”. In the last years of his life, he produced two albums annually, in particular, the Plectrumelectrum, which reached the sixth line in the Billboard, and Y, the Art Official Age, which was 5th place in the same hit parade.

The singer’s woman worshiped the personal life of Prince, despite the low growth and shocking style. The prince enjoyed the success of women in Prince on the engagement with the vocalist Suzann Melvyon, who dedicated the superchites to “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” “The Beautiful Girl in the World” and “Nothing Compares 2 U” “Nothing compared with you,” but they did not reach with friends.

They got married in them, and they had a boy Gregori. However, a week later the child died due to a rare genetic disease of the skull defect, due to which the baby could not breathe on his own. A terrible loss in the year led to the parting of the couple. Prince and Mait Garcia on New Year's Eve in Hawaii Multuriagist was again married. His chosen one was Manuel Testolini, a graduate of the University of York in Toronto, who worked as a volunteer in one charity organization.

They had no children, and after 5 years, the wife filed for divorce. According to rumors, the reason for the breakdown of relations was the excessive fascination of the husband of religion. He became a witness to Jehovah is prohibited in Russia and tried to turn her and other people to his faith. Prince and Manuel Testolini with the singer met with the singer Bria Valenta, but their novel did not grow out of their official marriage.

Death the heart of an unsurpassed musician stopped on April 21. A week before, during the air travel, he had to seek urgent medical help.The cause of death was called influenza and an overdose of painkillers. His body was discovered at his Paisley Park estate in Shanghassen, Minnesota. During the cremation of the greatest performer in the presence of only the closest people, the building of the Los Angeles City Hall was lit by purple spotlights.

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