Prince


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BirthDate
BirthPlace
06/06/1958
Minneapolis, MN
Title
"Darling Nikki," a racy song on the Purple Rain album, so enraged Tipper Gore that she launched the Parents Music Resource Center.
His 1987 double album, Sign 'O' the Times, for which he sang, composed, arranged and played most of the music, went platinum and is generally considered one of greatest albums of all time.
Received the Soul Train Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992.
Mainstream breakthrough came in 1984, when he starred in and scored the film Purple Rain. The sound track sold 13 million copies, won him an Oscar, and featured the year's top-selling single, t