Prince (1958-2016)
Dearest movie bloggers and music lovers, I deeply regret to inform you that the legendary pop musician Prince, whose full name is Prince Rogers Nelson, died on April 21st, 2016, at age 57, in his Paisley Park recording studio. His death has highly affected us. His legacy will live on as long as we continue to listen to his music among fanatics of the Purple Badness. He was notable for his famous movie and best-selling soundtrack "Purple Rain" and his albums "1999" and "Sign o' the Times". Even songs like the two title tracks, "Little Red Corvette", "Delirious", "Kiss", "When Doves Cry", and "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World".
It all started from his humble beginnings at his birthplace in Minnesota to his career transition as a musician. Prince joined a band formed by his cousin's husband called 94 East before signing a contract with Warner Bros. Records in 1978. It started with his early vinyl album "For You". Following "For You" is his self-titled album "Prince", which later generated a few hit singles. It went platinum after reaching the Billboard magazine in charts like the 200 at No. 4. Prince was not yet a well-known musical celebrity and changed his funk sound in the sexually explicit "Dirty Mind". With the double album "1999", which sold over three million copies, and three hit singles, he earned his way to the top. Prince then formed his band, The Revolution and began filming his first movie, "Purple Rain". The songs around the film would not be in its official soundtrack until 1984. When the album went into the pop charts, the feature was released in theatres and became the year's top-grosser. He soon gets an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score for that successful movie.
Prince had more albums recorded, which a few served as soundtracks to his underwhelming features that he would later direct and star in, such as "Under the Cherry Moon" and "Graffiti Bridge". He made a concert tour feature of one of his albums, "Sign o' the Times", which happened to be a box office flop and produced several songs for Tim Burton's 1989 movie interpretation of "Batman" and went to have its soundtrack on June 20th, 1989. It sold 4.3 million copies and peaked on the Billboard 200 at No. 1. The singer-songwriter also wrote songs performed by other artists, such as "Manic Monday" for The Bangles and "Nothin' Compares 2 U" for Sinead O'Connor.
In 1993, Prince began to adrift from his name and changed his identity to a symbol, thus becoming known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince. Despite the name change, it lasted until 2000, when he re-changed his name to Prince. He continued to write, produce and perform his music until his death. In 2004, Prince entered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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