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Born
on June 7, 1958)
Prince arrived on the scene in the late
Seventies, and it didn’t take long for him to
upend the music world with his startling music
and arresting demeanor. He rewrote the rulebook,
forging a synthesis of black funk and white rock
that served as a blueprint for cutting-edge
music in the Eighties. Prince made dance music
that rocked and rock music that had a bristling,
funky backbone. From the beginning Prince and
his music were androgynous, sly, sexy and
provocative. His colorful image and
revolutionary music made Prince a figure
comparable in paradigm-shifting impact to Little
Richard, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and George
Clinton. While 1999, Purple Rain and Sign
‘O’ the Times remain Prince’s best-known
albums, the artist’s deep discography is full
of funky treasure.
To understand Prince, one must appreciate the
extent of his musical obsession. He has always
been a willing servant of his tireless muse. “There’s
not a person around who can stay awake as long
as I can,” he claimed in a 1985 interview. “Music
is what keeps me awake.” Because he is a
workaholic, it’s difficult to keep track of
all he’s recorded for himself and others in
his orbit. There are reputedly hundreds of
unreleased songs in Prince’s vault. In 1998,
he unveiled some of these leftovers on the
five-CD set, Crystal Ball. That leviathan
followed Emancipation (1996), a three-disc set
of new material. The single discs Chaos and
Disorder (1996) and Newpower Soul (1998) also
came out during the same time frame. That’s
ten CDs’ worth of music in a three-year period
- much more material than most artists manage in
a lifetime - and it doesn’t even include
albums by Chaka Khan (Come 2 My House) and
Graham Central Station (GCS 2000) on which
Prince played a major role. Given such prolific
output, it doesn’t take long to realize that
Prince isn’t just a musician but a force of
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