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Prince died on the 21st of April, 2016, at his Paisley Park home and recording studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota. The Midwest Medical Examiner's Office confirmed on the 2nd of June that he died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, which had been laced into counterfeit hydrocodone/paracetamol pills. He was 57 years old.
Prince's full legal name was Prince Rogers Nelson. He was born on the 7th of June, 1958, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was named after his father John Lewis Nelson's jazz-band stage name, Prince Rogers.
In 1984, Prince became the first artist in history to simultaneously hold the number-one film, album, and single in the United States. The film Purple Rain, its soundtrack album, and the single "When Doves Cry" all reached the top spot at the same time. The album spent 24 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and the film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score.
In 1993, Prince changed his stage name to an unpronounceable symbol in protest against Warner Bros. Records, which controlled the pace at which his music was released. To allow the symbol to appear in print, Warner Bros. mass-mailed floppy disks containing a custom font. Prince reverted to his birth name on the 16th of May, 2000, after his publishing contract with the label expired.
Prince sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his lifetime. He released 39 albums before his death in 2016 and still had a vast amount of unreleased material stored in his vault at Paisley Park.
The Parental Advisory label on music recordings traces directly to Prince's song "Darling Nikki." After Tipper Gore heard her 11-year-old daughter Karenna listening to the song, which contained sexually explicit references, Gore founded the Parents Music Resource Center. The center advocated for mandatory warning labels on records with content unsuitable for minors, and the recording industry eventually complied voluntarily.