39 albums, over 100 million records sold, and a unique work in music history. Prince died yesterday in Paisley Park
You can, on the one hand, be a phrase platitude, but the truth is that music as we know it today would be completely different if he had not steeped in its history a work as the Prince a “puzzle”, as he wrote two years ago the journalist Rui Miguel Abreu, a hyperactive puzzle that reinvented the conceptions of modern pop music, which questioned racial norms, gender, sexuality, and that to date his death remained always different from all others, with all gains and unpleasantness that this statement of a single character entails. Prince died yesterday at age 57, with 39 studio albums in the portfolio, leaving a unique milestone in the history of music.
The causes of the American musician death are still to be confirmed, and police are to investigate the case. But it is known that on April 15 had been admitted to emergency due to a severe case of flu. The private plane on which followed had to make an emergency landing to be her medical care. The musician turned out to be discharged and a day later returned to the stage, but in recent days, canceled concerts he had scheduled. However, nothing pointed to an outcome of this nature, and his death was confirmed yesterday in the late afternoon by his agent told The Associated Press after the TMZ, the first to break the news of Michael Jackson’s death, have begun to advance that the police had been called home to the musician, Paisley Park in Minneapolis, to investigate a death. Not half an hour later came confirmation that no one wanted:. Prince died
Surprise Concert
The last time Prince went through Portugal was in August 2013 for a concert at the Coliseum in Lisbon, marked by surprise, which generated enormous media attention around and of course, when he ascended the stage was received with full house.
This scenario was repeated by wherever he went, even that no longer cast a success in terms of those who have made a bigger name in the 1980s and that from now on will be remembered and shared by thousands of admirers worldwide – Purple Rain, Kiss, Little Red Corvette ., when Doves Cry, etc.
However, Prince never gave in to nostalgia strategy, always fled to live on their laurels of the past, which was reflected in his spectacles and his extreme hyperactivity: since its debut in 1978 released 39 studio albums, two of them only published last year, even though in recent years each disc its was no longer greeted with the same hustle and bustle of other times.
Perfectionist and determined
Prince Rogers Nelson was only 19 when he released the first album, for you, having himself composed, produced and played all the instruments there hear – 27, to be accurate. This fact alone reflects well not only his perfectionism and need for absolute control over his work, but also the determination that characterized its entire route, even when followed against the current.
Determination that in recent years It led him to a fight against the internet, which declared itself as the “dead” in 2010 (although 1998 has been a pioneer by providing for pre-sale on its site triple Crystall Ball), removing his discography platforms streaming, YouTube, suing fans who shared their music on the internet, even though last year has published exclusively in Tidal streaming service, his last two albums: HITnRUN Phase One and HITnRUN Phase Two .
He had the same determination as in the 1990s began a long legal battle against his publisher then, Warner, in order to protect the most of your creative freedom comparing the record industry to slavery, at the same time he left the Prince designation and name adopted as an unpronounceable symbol. In 2000 back to Prince.
The global success and policy
If from this first album that launched the age of 19 and Controversy, 1981 album , Prince was asserting its musical personality, was from 1999, his fifth album, released in 1982, which won a global and transverse dimension. This disc initiates also a period of unique creativity, launching until 1987 a set of five albums that are responsible for the reinvention of the R & amp;. Be of modern pop music, reflecting an innovative and daring character that still surprises
it is therefore no wonder that, after reported his death, a group of artists ranging from Justin Timberlake to Duran Duran, through Madonna, Cat Power or Missy Elliott, among others, have paid homage to the musician . All of them were influenced by Prince
It was in 1984 that launched the album that gave him more popularity:. Purple Rain . Disk that is also the soundtrack of the same movie, played by himself. Just awarded the Oscar for Best Soundtrack and thus becomes a global star. The relationship with cinema did not end here, and two years later released Parade , album is also the soundtrack of Under the Cherry Moon , a film that was made and played by himself.
it was around this time that also created the complex Paisley Park studios, where yesterday was found dead, but also a publisher (decommissioned in 1994) and residence of the musician. An authentic mecca where he worked and recorded continuously, hosting artists such as Sheila E., The Time or Tevin Campbell, developing what came to be known as the “Minneapolis Sound”.
The musician has spent thousands of dollars this complex without much return, which certainly contributed to in 1992 has renewed with Warner a contract – which earned him 100 million dollars. – shortly after came to break
it was in Park Paisley who recorded Sign o ‘the Times (1987), double album that the musician wanted it to be triple, probably the most influential work he left us. An album that also reflects its political side, dealing with wit poverty, drug addiction and violence. the police always been part of his work. Just remember a song like Ronnie, Talk to Russia on the Cold War, or Darling Nikki , theme when talking about masturbation led Tipper Gore, wife of then-Senator Al Gore, found the Parents Music Resource Center that created the alert “Parental Advisory” which appear in the records whose content, according to the association, is improper. You last album included the theme Baltimore, a protest against police violence in the US.
From the mid-1990s his journey becomes more erratic, releasing records after records, some entirely instrumental, with only Musicology , 2004, and 3121, 2006, they stood out from the other media level. Became even Jehovah’s Witness in 2001.
Close relationship with Portugal
remember that Prince also had a close relationship with Portugal. debuted here by the old Estádio Alvalade in 1993, returning five years later the then Atlantic Pavilion. New activities in Lisbon in 2010 alone, the Super Bock Super Rock, concert with the participation of Ana Moura, who was a friend (pictured, above).
Five years ago the singer himself said DN: “He is a very interior, oversensitive person All that is interior and true, which is what these great musicians – in my opinion – are increasingly looking Because nowadays the music is full of .. fast food , and therefore these musicians for what I have had the opportunity to come to prove increasingly seek honesty. I think that’s what he feels this music [fate]. “
yesterday, the singer, who is in the United States for a series of concerts, was not available to talk. In his facebook page published a black square, without any comment.
In November 2015, in an interview with News Magazine , Ana Moura spoke about his experience in Paisley Park. “He is a person very dedicated to music, workaholic . He lives in his studio. Exactly. Every day there is music in his studio. I was already going several times a few days to his studio and then it is: wake up – the rooms are over – people go down … But it has various studios with various people doing various things at various studios And then there’s always his band on the main stage, which. it is the concert hall – because he also has a concert hall in the studio [laughs], where he gives shows and so there in Minneapolis – and they are always there, his band is always there to rehearse … “
it is known that Prince was in writing his biography, the Beautiful Ones , to be published in autumn 2017. thus left us a musician to whom the name of “genius” was more than fair.
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