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Playing the piano, Nelson used "Prince Rogers" as a stage name and started a band called "The Prince Rogers Trio" with local musicians. In 1956, he met Mattie Della Shaw (November 11, 1933 – February 15, 2002) at a show on the north side of Minneapolis. Shaw was a jazz musician who became the musical group's singer.
Prince was named after his father's most popular stage name, Prince Rogers, which his father used while performing with Prince's mother in a jazz group called the Prince Rogers Trio. [29] In 1991, Prince's father told A Current Affair that he named his son "Prince" because he wanted Prince "to do everything I wanted to do". [30]
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His father John Nelson was a jazz musician who played under the stage name Prince Rogers in a group called the Prince Rogers Trio. When he had a son with the Trio's singer Mattie Della Shaw in ...
The Minneapolis native, born Prince Rogers Nelson, stood just 5 feet, 2 inches – yet he made a powerful visual impact at the dawn of MTV. "But that was a shock to me," Parke admitted.
3rdeyegirl, stylized as 3RDEYEGIRL, is an American funk rock band and was Prince's backing band from his 2014 return to Warner Music until his death in 2016. It is a trio consisting of the American drummer Hannah Welton, Canadian guitarist Donna Grantis and Danish bassist Ida Kristine Nielsen.
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Diamonds and Pearls is the thirteenth studio album by American recording artist Prince, and the first with his backing band The New Power Generation.It was released on October 1, 1991, by Paisley Park Records and Warner Bros. Records.