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Prince Trivia
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- Is of African-American and Filipino descent
- Started the careers of Vanity and Carmen Electra amongst others.
- In May 2000 Prince dropped the symbol he adopted as a name. He had used the symbol because he considered his record contract oppressive and the contract was up in 2000.
- The Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame's newest inductee. (Mar. 2004)
- One of very few artists who has denied 'Weird Al' Yankovic permission to parody any of his songs. After years of asking, ''Weird Al' Yankovic' obtained video parody permission, and the video for UHF (1989) includes a sequence which spoofs the bathtub intro for Prince's "When Doves Cry".
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