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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.
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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]
The singer/songwriter, who died there in 2016 at age 57, is the subject of a new photo book, "Prince: Icon." It looks back at his decades-long career through the lens of 17 photographers, from the ...
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 ...
Vanity 6 was an American female vocal trio that gained popularity in the early 1980s. They were protégées of musician Prince.Led by singer Vanity, they are known for their song "Nasty Girl". [6]
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The announcement stated that Prince was in negotiations with a major record store chain to distribute the album, said to contain 20 "remastered re-recordings" of Prince's greatest hits, along with "at least four brand new songs". This album was not released, however (likely due to the Warner Bros. release of The Very Best of Prince in July 2001).