A phenomenal talent, Prince has excelled as a singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, dancer, producer, and showman. The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll hailed him as one of the most flamboyant, controversial, influential, and popular artists of the 1980s … and also one of the least predictable and most mysterious.
And that was before 1993 when Prince changed his name first to a cryptic icon, made up of male and female gender symbols, then Victor,
and finally The
Artist Formerly...
Prince
(*1958)