Today we paint the day purple in celebration of Prince’s 55th birthday. First hitting the music scene in the 70’s the musical genius has been giving us hits after hits for the last 3 decades.
Prince has a level of mastery that we have not yet seen replicated in our generation. Happy birthday to the fearless icon and many more! Here are 5 interesting facts that you may not have known about Prince
1. He Wrote His First Song When He Was Only 7, it was called “Funk Machine,”
2. He Refused To Be Produced By Earth, Wind And Fire
3. He Wanted Vanity To Be Known As “Vagina”
Prince also ghostwrote and produced a record for Vanity 6. He wanted her to go by the stage name Vagina – pronounced “va-geena” – but memebers refused, and went with Vanity instead. The group was called Vanity 6 because among the three members, there were six breasts.
4. He Intended To Release An Entire Album As A Woman
Prince developed a feminine alter ego known as Camille while working on Sign O The Times. He used the persona on the single “If I Was Your Girlfriend,” and achieved the effect by slowing down the tape as he sang in his normal register, and then speeding the tape up in playback. He reportedly recorded an entire album as Camille, but eventually scrapped it along with plans to film a movie about the character in which he’d play himself as well as appear in drag as Camille.
5. He Danced With James Brown When He Was 10
“My stepdad put me on stage with him and I danced a bit until the bodyguard took me off,” Prince told MTV in 1985. He would later dance with Brown – and Michael Jackson! – in this astonishing footage from a concert at the BeverlyTheatre in Los Angeles in 1983. B.B. King was also on stage!
Here the video below
