Prince Tour

EVENT VENUE DATE/TIME  
Prince Montreux Music And Convention Center – Stravinski Auditorium
Montreux, VD
Saturday
7/13/2013
8:00PM

Prince Montreux Music And Convention Center – Stravinski Auditorium
Montreux, VD
Sunday
7/14/2013
8:00PM

Prince Montreux Music And Convention Center – Stravinski Auditorium
Montreux, VD
Monday
7/15/2013
8:00PM


prince Articles

Prince Launches Residency Tour of West Coast in April : March 21, 2013

Next month, Prince will head out on a residency tour of the west coast that will find him playing four shows in two days at each city he visits. The trek will begin at the Vogue i ...

Prince Signs On for Three Nights at Montreux Jazz Festival : February 15, 2013

Prince will perform three concerts at this year’s Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. The concerts will be held July 13-15 at the festival, which runs from July 5-20 this y ...

Most Bizarre Moments In The Career Of Prince : February 08, 2013

Despite Madonna’s penchant for controversy and Michael Jackson’s increasing eccentricity, Prince Rogers Nelson was always the most maverick superstar out of the holy trinity of ...

Prince Takes Over Minneapolis’ Dakota Jazz Club This Week : January 16, 2013

Prince, the enigma of all things purple – really just the enigma of all things – has just announced that he will undertake a three-night residency at the 300-seat Dakota Jazz C ...

Foster the People’s Mark Foster Gets Bounced from Prince Show : October 29, 2012

Prince doesn’t allow anyone to use cell phones during his private concerts – and anyone includes Mark Foster, lead singer of Foster the People. Foster was kicked out of an inti ...

Prince Spinning Residency Dates in Chicago : September 03, 2012

Prince is no stranger to residencies, recently completing one each in New York and Los Angeles, and soon he will add Chicago to that list. A show titled “Welcome 2 Chicago” ...

Prince Quits Recording Albums, Fears Internet Piracy : June 25, 2011

Prince, the rock 'n roll legend and musical mystic, has made the decision to forgo recording until changes are made regarding digital music. The Guardian UK has reported that the s ...

Prince Set to Play Three Club Shows in Los Angeles Wednesday : May 24, 2011

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist Prince, who is currently in the middle of performing a long stretch of shows near Los Angeles at The Forum, is planning to perform three club ...

Prince to Roll Out Concert Leg in December : October 14, 2010

Prince on Thursday night announced a concert series in which Sinbad, Esperanza Spalding, Mint Condition, Sheila E., Janelle Monae, Cassandra Wilson and Maceo, among others, will be ...

Prince Proclaims the Internet to be Dead : July 06, 2010

Prince has declared that the internet is completely done. It is like MTV. It was hip at one time. Now it is outdated. The Daily Mirror published Prince's lengthy internet death ...


prince Biography

The American musician, songwriter, singer and actor Prince was born as Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 7, 1958. During his career Prince has had thirty singles in the Top 40 and produced ten platinum albums. He has also founded a record label and recording studio, self produced his albums, and played all or most of the instruments that appear on his recordings. Prince has also promoted the careers of Vanity 6, The Time, Carmen Electra and Sheila E, and also written songs for those artists as well as others including Sinead O'Connor, The Bangles and Chaka Khan.

Prince has won an Academy Award, Golden Globe and seven Grammy Awards. In 2004 he became a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during his first year of eligibility. The music of Prince draws its inspiration from pop, jazz, folk, psychedelia, disco, electronica, New Wave, blues, rap, funk, soul, R&B and rock. Artistic influences of Prince's include Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Duke Ellington, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Miles Davis, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, The Beatles Joni Mitchell Parliament-Funkadelic and Sly & the Family Stone. The “Minneapolis sound” was pioneered by Prince. It combines New Wave, R&B, pop, rock and funk. Many musicians have been influenced by it. Prince has released over 30 albums over the course of his long career and sold 100 million worldwide records.