Prince worked since 1978 in the music business. Especially in the 1980s, he influenced the international music scene by combined different genres of music together. The stylistic range of his music ranged from R & B, funk, soul, pop and rock to blues to jazz. His lyrics wrote Prince himself, also composed, arranged and produced his songs. He also played instruments like electric bass, guitar, piano, keyboards and drums. For most of his studio recordings he played all the instruments himself. The international breakthrough came Prince in 1984 with the single and album Purple Rain for the same film, in which he also played the lead role. In life, more than 100 million of its recorded music were sold worldwide and Prince won seven Grammy Awards, an Academy Award in 1985 and 2007 Golden Globe Award. In 2004 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In the 1990s, championed Prince decided the rights to its intellectual property, which he showed, among other things by its opposition to record companies. Due to differences with his former record label Warner Bros. Records from 1993 to 2000 he put his stage name from. During this time he was wearing instead of a pronounceable name a symbol as a pseudonym and was often referred to as "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince" (The formerly known as Prince Artist) or short TAFKAP. After the end of the contract with Warner Bros. Records was called the musician in September 2000. back Prince. early 21st century, he distanced himself increasingly from the music industry from and chose unconventional distribution channels for its records. Some of his albums were temporarily only available via the Internet or as a side dish of a commercial newspaper. In April 2014 signed Warner Bros . Records and Prince a treaty that secured the musicians the copyrights to his songs. the American music legend died on 21 April 2016 aged 57 from an accidental overdose of the painkiller fentanyl. this is a synthetically based on opium drug . Prince was born in Minneapolis / Minnesota / USA, died in Chanhassen / Minnesota / USA and Park / Chanhassen / Minnesota / USA was buried in Paisley.

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