Growing Up With Prince

The late legend’s music shaped various chapters of my life in powerful ways

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I can’t pinpoint the exact moment I fell in love with Prince.

It may have started at the onset of puberty, watching his raunchy videos on Top of the Pops. I distinctly remember catching on to “Little Red Corvette” as a young’un, oblivious to why he was singing about a car…