He wanted to write a book about his life, because of the white critics, the Prince felt misunderstood. Three years after his death, his autobiography, “The Beautiful Ones comes now” on the market.
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Prince the musical genius
Prince Rogers Nelson, in short: Prince
Prince was on 7. June 1958 was born in Minneapolis. Prior to his 20. Birthday, he received a record contract. His debut album “For you” was released in April 1978 and was not commercially successful. Only after a further four albums in 1984, he managed to with “Purple Rain” and the homonymous movie a breakthrough.
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Prince the musical genius
Big earner
R&B, Funk, Rock and Soul. The versatile artist, you could never get stuck in a Genre drawer. With 34 years, he got to date the highest prize money record contract to the Pop-history: $ 100 million for four albums.
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Prince the musical genius
Music genius
Prince played a total of 15 musical instruments. Including Guitar, Drums, Keyboard, E-Bass, Synthesizer. Often he played all of the instruments in the case of Studio productions himself. Among his hits songs such as “Kiss” and “When Doves Cry next to “Purple Rain””.
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Prince the musical genius
Extravagant Guitars
Came his shrill Occur and the clothes style, Prince’s tendency to extravagant guitars. Many of them come from the guitar Builder Jerry Auerswald. The German in Konstanz, on lake Constance, a resident of, and is famous for its unique bass and guitar.
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Prince the musical genius
From Grammy to Oscar
During his career, he published Prince over 30 Studio albums and various live albums. He received numerous awards, including several Grammy Awards, World Music Awards, but the Golden raspberry for bad movies. For “Purple Rain” (Album, song, and Film), he received an Oscar and the diamond plus platinum-award for a total of 13 million copies sold.
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Prince the musical genius
Prince’s Private Life
In 1990, the Prince became acquainted with the then-underage dancer Mayte Jannell Garcia (photo) for a Tour concert. 14. February 1996, they married, had a son, who died but a week after the birth. In 1998 the Couple separated. In 2001, married Prince again, the canadian-born Manuela Testolini. The marriage lasted until 2006.
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Prince the musical genius
“The artist formerly known as Prince”
Due to disputes with his record company, Prince took from 1993 to 2000 his stage name. “The artist formerly known as Prince” was the name of the artist henceforth and earned for respect as well as ridicule.
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Prince the musical genius
Prince vs. the music industry
At the beginning of the new Millennium, the Prince is a suggested unconventional ways of distribution of his phonogram. Some of his albums have, at times only over the Internet or as a Supplement to a commercially available newspaper available. The successes of days past, he could not tie with his latest albums. On tour he went until shortly before his death in the world.
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Prince the musical genius
Farewell to the pop icon Prince
Prince was on 21. April 2016 in his Paisley Park Studio in Chanhassen in the state of Minnesota in an Elevator lifeless found. Just a week earlier, the Prince had been in a hospital: He complained of malaise, but was dismissed after a three-hour treatment. Three years after his death published his autobiography, “The Beautiful Ones”.
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Prince the musical genius
Prince Rogers Nelson, in short: Prince
Prince was on 7. June 1958 was born in Minneapolis. Prior to his 20. Birthday, he received a record contract. His debut album “For you” was released in April 1978 and was not commercially successful. Only after a further four albums in 1984, he managed to with “Purple Rain” and the homonymous movie a breakthrough.
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Prince the musical genius
Big earner
R&B, Funk, Rock and Soul. The versatile artist, you could never get stuck in a Genre drawer. With 34 years, he got to date the highest prize money record contract to the Pop-history: $ 100 million for four albums.
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Prince the musical genius
Music genius
Prince played a total of 15 musical instruments. Including Guitar, Drums, Keyboard, E-Bass, Synthesizer. Often he played all of the instruments in the case of Studio productions himself. Among his hits songs such as “Kiss” and “When Doves Cry next to “Purple Rain””.
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Prince the musical genius
Extravagant Guitars
Came his shrill Occur and the clothes style, Prince’s tendency to extravagant guitars. Many of them come from the guitar Builder Jerry Auerswald. The German in Konstanz, on lake Constance, a resident of, and is famous for its unique bass and guitar.
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Prince the musical genius
From Grammy to Oscar
During his career, he published Prince over 30 Studio albums and various live albums. He received numerous awards, including several Grammy Awards, World Music Awards, but the Golden raspberry for bad movies. For “Purple Rain” (Album, song, and Film), he received an Oscar and the diamond plus platinum-award for a total of 13 million copies sold.
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Prince the musical genius
Prince’s Private Life
In 1990, the Prince became acquainted with the then-underage dancer Mayte Jannell Garcia (photo) for a Tour concert. 14. February 1996, they married, had a son, who died but a week after the birth. In 1998 the Couple separated. In 2001, married Prince again, the canadian-born Manuela Testolini. The marriage lasted until 2006.
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Prince the musical genius
“The artist formerly known as Prince”
Due to disputes with his record company, Prince took from 1993 to 2000 his stage name. “The artist formerly known as Prince” was the name of the artist henceforth and earned for respect as well as ridicule.
-
Prince the musical genius
Prince vs. the music industry
At the beginning of the new Millennium, the Prince is a suggested unconventional ways of distribution of his phonogram. Some of his albums have, at times only over the Internet or as a Supplement to a commercially available newspaper available. The successes of days past, he could not tie with his latest albums. On tour he went until shortly before his death in the world.
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Prince the musical genius
Farewell to the pop icon Prince
Prince was on 21. April 2016 in his Paisley Park Studio in Chanhassen in the state of Minnesota in an Elevator lifeless found. Just a week earlier, the Prince had been in a hospital: He complained of malaise, but was dismissed after a three-hour treatment. Three years after his death published his autobiography, “The Beautiful Ones”.
Four days before his death, Prince Dan bucks, bring called, to tell him that he’s okay. The press exaggerating, he had just flu-like symptoms, he explained to the author that he had contracted to Write his autobiography. Prince wanted to talk about the Details of the book.
21. April 2016 beeping bring was – just like the Rest of the world – surprised by the news that the Prince was found dead in an Elevator. He was just 57 years old. Until then he had worked feverishly on his autobiography, was his last major project.
“Expression of sorrow and hymn to life”
‘Yellow Cloud” – the guitar of Prince was auctioned in 2018, $ 225,000
Beeping bring had worked together for three months closely with the artists and decided to bring the work to the end. Three years after the death of Prince, the autobiography now appears in English and German in the book trade. The title of “The Beautiful Ones” had chosen the musicians themselves, it is the Name of a rock ballad on his Album “Purple Rain”. First of all it should be only the working title, but after the death of the Prince, it stuck.
“For the Rest of my life I will ask myself, what would have written for a book the Prince and I together, if he would not have died,” writes Dan bucks, bring in the Foreword. “This book represents only a fraction of what it can be had; and this book is thanks to its mere existence is both an expression of grief and a hymn to life.”
“The white Establihshment had no idea”
Full to the brim with ideas had been a Prince – he had had enough of music, and it was his heart’s desire to write a book. “I want my first book to be better than my first Album. I like it, but I am significantly smarter than I was at that time”, – quotes the bucks bring to the artist.
Prince wanted to show the world who he really was – as a musician and as a human being. Because too often a critic of the white establishment ment would have described his music using words that have nothing to do with him, and thus shown that they had no idea who he really was.
You’ve got him, “attributed to alchemical characteristics” – “in order to transform the literal meaning of the word, the dark art of base metal into Gold”. He would never do something like that, so Prince to beeping get. His goal had always been the harmony. Especially angry is the word made him “magically”, writes bucks bring in his introduction and admits to it in his texts about Prince also repeatedly applied. However, “radio is the opposite of magic, the radio rules”, have Prince made it clear.
Treasure chamber full of memories
Beeping bring and the Prince have led to long conversations. Only this could be the book what it is: an authentic work. Beeping bring wanted to publish a “Merchandise-stuff”, but Prince meet. For months, he crawled to the estate and was met with, as he writes, a veritable treasure trove: a student ID from High School, the wallet of the father, numerous drawings, lyrics, and photos. Prince had hoarded all of these things – just nothing that reminded of a diary.
Private photo of the musician in 1986
And yet: “Everything was speaking to us, wanted to have Prince”, – stated in the Preface, and continues: “The book could appear with his voice, under his authorship.”
Personal Insights
The book is divided into four sections: In the almost 50-page introduction, author Dan bucks take on the Emergence of the book tells of his numerous Meetings with the “charming and self-critical” of the musicians, of the intimacy between the two developed, and from the shock, when he learned of his death. There are personal insights that reveal a very prominent image of the artist.
Of Superman and the first kiss
Then about 50 hand-written on paper, placed the pages from the pen of Prince himself, early memories and a Declaration of love to his parents. One learns that the five year old Laura was the first woman that kissed him – she had chosen him to be the “husband play” – and that he and his little girlfriend, the first Couple with different skin color were not in Minneapolis, but the most recent.
Pictures from the photo session for the Prince Album “Dirty Mind” (1980)
Prince tells of his infatuation for Superman, wonder but at the same time, why all superheroes are white. He tells of the quarrels of his parents – “they were always the most stylish of the whole street” – up to the divorce, and his first public appearance in the school: not as a musician, but as a tap dancer. The applause, as Prince, he got well only because he had finally disappeared from the stage.
Out of the cellar in the musical Olympus
In the rehearsal room by DJ Terry “Motormouth” spent Prince as a Teenager, countless hours, he was forfeited, but there has long been the music. Terry and his wife Tracy had been Ike and Tina Turner of North Minneapolis, he observes. In the basement room he heard the Songs of BB King, James Brown, Aretha Franklin and others, and transcribed eager texts. Later, he wrote his own Songs; his voice was only an Instrument of many that he had mastered.
As the success came, and he heard himself for the first Time on the Radio, not recognized by the Prince, according to their own information. At 19, he became the Superstar and wrote music history. All this we learn in the carefully from the legacy of the musician-put-together records, photos and hand-written texts. It is the real-time story told of a boy the armor and a figure that an artistic Vision, created the world, before the Hits and the fame of defined him.
“The Beautiful Ones – The unfinished autobiography” by Prince & Co-author Dan bucks bring is published by the Heyne publishing house.