John L. Nelson
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Born | Webster Parish |
Nationality | United States of America |
Instruments | piano |
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Birth name | John Lewis Nelson |
Born | Webster Parish, Louisiana, U.S. | June 29, 1916
Died | August 25, 2001 Chanhassen, Minnesota, U.S. | (aged 85)
Years active | 1948–1966 |
John Lewis Nelson (June 29, 1916 – August 25, 2001), also known as his stage name Prince Rogers, was an American jazz musician and songwriter. He was the father of musicians Prince and Tyka Nelson and a credited co-writer on some of his son's songs.
Personal life[edit | edit source]
Nelson was born in Webster Parish, Louisiana, one of five children born to Carrie (Jenkins) and Clarence Nelson. He traveled to Minneapolis to become a musician in 1948. Playing the piano, Nelson used "Prince Rogers" as a stage name and started a band called "The Prince Rogers Trio" with local musicians.
In 1956, he met Mattie Della Shaw (November 11, 1933 – February 15, 2002) at a show on the north side of Minneapolis. Shaw was a jazz musician who became the musical group's singer. She had one son, Alfred Frank Alonzo Jackson (July 6, 1953 – August 29, 2019). Nelson married Shaw on August 31, 1957, and the couple had two more children, musician Prince (1958–2016) (who was named after his father's stage name) and daughter singer Tyka Nelson (born 1960). The couple formally separated in 1965 and were divorced on September 24, 1968.
ASCAP credits[edit | edit source]
ASCAP credits, or co-credits, him with the following:
- "Father’s Song" and "Purple Rain Cues", from the film Purple Rain, 1984
- "Computer Blue" from the Purple Rain album and film, 1984
- "Around the World in a Day" (composed with David Coleman and Prince), "Paisley Park" (composed with David Coleman and Prince), and "The Ladder" (composed with Prince), from the album Around the World in a Day, 1985
- "Christopher Tracy’s Parade" (composed with Prince) and "Under the Cherry Moon" (composed with Prince) from the album Parade, 1986
- "Under the Cherry Moon Cues" from the film Under the Cherry Moon, 1986
- "Scandalous!" from the Batman album and film, 1989
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