It was quickly eclipsed by 'I Wanna Be Your Lover,' the first single from 1979's Prince. The album made some inroads on R&B radio, with its first single 'Soft and Wet' reaching 12. Prince played every instrument and sang every note on For You, an audacious move for a debut. He headed to the Record Plant in Sausalito, California to record his debut For You, which appeared in 1978. Records on the strength of a demo he recorded with producer Chris Moon. By that point, the teenage Prince had already signed to Warner Bros. Prince played guitar on a few tracks on a 94 East demo and co-wrote 'Just Another Sucker' with Willie, a song composed in 1977. Prince and Cymone's first big break arrived when Pepe Willie, the husband of Prince's cousin, brought the duo into the funk band 94 East.

The pair became friends and then collaborators, forming a covers band called Grand Central with Morris Day while the three attended high school together. For a while, Prince stayed at the house of his neighbors the Andersons, whose son Andre would later adopt the stage name Andre Cymone.

Music remained a mainstay after his parent's divorce, a period where he bounced between both households. Prince taught himself how to play music at an early age and his first original songs arrived not much later. The son of a jazz pianist and singer, Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 7, 1958. Prince produced new music at a furious pace throughout the last decade of his life, which is what made his death in 2016 such a shock: his music was ceaselessly, endlessly alive and full of possibility. Once he received emancipation from his contract, he seized the opportunity to release as much music as he could record, occasionally taking the time to focus his aim at the mainstream, scoring such hits as 2004's Musicology in the process. Prince's reign continued into the early '90s, a time which found him swapping the Revolution for the jazz-funk New Power Generation, but by the middle of the decade, he entered a cold war with his record company that contributed to a slow slide down the charts. There wasn't an area of pop music in the '80s that didn't bear his influence: it could be heard in freaky funk and R&B slow jams, in thick electro-techno and neo-psychedelic rock, and right at the top of the pop charts. He masterminded albums by the Time and Sheila E, and gave away hit songs to the Bangles and Sheena Easton, shaping the sound of popular music in the process. Ideas came to Prince so quickly, they couldn't be contained on his own records, either with or without his backing band the Revolution. He was the rare combination of a visionary pop conceptualist and master musician who could capture the sounds he imagined, a quality that fueled his remarkable success in the 1980s. No other artist of the rock & roll era compares to Prince.

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