Prince's Evolution: Rock, Jazz, Soul Icon

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How did Prince transform from the shortest guy on his high school basketball team to the larger than life icon who dominated charts and hearts for decades?

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Prince Rogers Nelson was born January 7th, 1958 in Minneapolis , MN .

His father, John Nelson , LED a jazz group called the Prince Rogers Trio and his mother Maddie Shaw was their lead singer.

Prince grew up with the sounds of Santana , Larry Graham , and Fleetwood Mac .

He committed his energy to developing a successful music career because he thought music was the only thing he was truly good at.

Prince was married to Maite Garcia in 1996 .

He left Warner Brothers after four years of marriage.

His first independent production was the 36 track album Emancipation .

In 2014 , Prince and Warner Brothers reconciled 18 years after their very public split.

On April 15th, 2016 , Prince was headed home on his private plane when he suddenly fell unconscious, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing and him to be rushed to the hospital.

He recovered from that incident but was found unconscious again days later , this time in an elevator in his Minnesota mansion.

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