American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and actor.

He was known mononymously as [[artist:Prince]]. From 1994 to 2000 he used an unpronounceable symbol as name referred by others as [[artist:293637]].

The son of [[artist:John L. Nelson]] and Matti Della Shaw was born on June 7th 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Two years later his sister [[artist:Tyka Nelson]] was born.

In 1976, he started work on a demo tape with producer [Chris Moon](https://www.discogs.com/artist/577934-Chris-Moon-2) in a Minneapolis studio. Prince also had the patronage of [[artist:2458991]] (of [[artist:1044210]]), to whom Moon introduced him, a connection that helped him produce a high-quality demo recording. Husney started contacting major labels and ran a campaign promoting Prince as a star of the future, resulting in a bidding war eventually won by [[label:1000]] as they were the only label to offer Prince creative control of his songs.

He was married to [[artist:Mayte]] (from 1996 to 2000) and to [[artist:3190790]] (from 2001 2006). On 21 April 2016 Prince passed away at [[label:269869]].