One of rock's most singular artists, Prince captivated millions with his multitude of talents, unique brilliance, and eccentric behavior. His decades-long career began in his hometown of Minneapolis, where the artist crafted his genre-bending musical style that incorporated funk, soul, R&B, rock...
The music he produced as a result — as a singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist — defied genre, blending a mastery of pop hooks and funk grooves on singles that could be as lush as Purple Rain, as muscular and rocking as Let's Go Crazy and as ferociously propulsive as ...
Like all great artists, Prince was himself a synthesizer of influences; his ranged from Sly Stone to Joni Mitchell to Todd Rundgren. The music he produced as a result — as a singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist — defied genre, blending a mastery of pop hooks and funk gro...
One of the most singular talents in music, a multi-talented pop/funk/rock performer who showed remarkable stylistic growth and musical diversity.Read Full Biography STREAM OR BUY:Active 1970s - 2010s Born June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis, MN Died April 21, 2016 in Chanhassen, MN Genre R&...
This dissertation takes Prince's music as a sign of broader cultural changes that occurred from the late 1970s to 2010. The analysis of each of his official albums within that timeframe provides a new and comprehensive account of the artist's musical language. His use of funk is foreground...
“When You Were Mine” — burst upon such newbies like a Christmas gift from another planet. This 22-year-old spawn of funk, porn,Sly Stone,Al Green, Hendrix and God or Berry Gordy — in reality, the child of a piano-playing dad and jazz-singer mom who wrote his f...
” With an airtight beat and synthetic, P-Funk-esque grooves, Prince’s 13th single counterbalanced the conservative backlash against anything – music, movies, TV, books, sex – that threatened to liberate America from the post-Seventies doldrums. Aiming a rolled eye at all the rampant public...
breaks out into a full-on funk jam (“somebody get me another suit ready, i’m about to sweat this one out!” prince exclaims as he goes). the nearly 13-minute official debut of “xenophobia,” a massive introduction for the band and a crash course in what patrons were getting with ...
with mixed results. For those tuned into Prince’s expanding sound palette however, the development from the precarious funk/R&B of early tracks such asFor You’sBabyto the much more innovative track construction that pepperedDirty MindandControversywas a strong indicator that this was a prolific...
Like all great artists, Prince was himself a synthesizer of influences; his ranged from Sly Stone to Joni Mitchell to Todd Rundgren. The music he produced as a result — as a singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist — defied genre, blending a mastery of pop hooks and funk gro...