wendy & lisa, p-funk, and the time.

yeah JB, PFunk, Sly, Santana...his major influences and I liked all of them quite a bit. I tried Joni Mitchell but could never get into that.

Lenny!

George Clinton, Common, The Time, and more recently Nikka Costa. I would say Janele Monae but I was listening to her before she opened for Prince.

George Clinton

Vanity 6

The Time

The Bangles

Sheila E

Sheena Easton

there r heaps.......

I was pretty impressionable when I got into Prince, so I was up for discovering more and all about where this dude came from - so my love of P-Funk and Rick James stems from Prince - I hopped on those bandwagons pretty early, I think I had RJ's back catalogue before I even had completed Prince's thus far.

James Brown is the main one.

Do Prince associaties like The Time really count?

Janelle Monae, Esperanza Spalding, Cassandra Wilson, Maceo Parker, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Larry Graham (and thus GCS and Sly & The Family Stone), Ike and Tina Turner, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis (which opened me up to a whole world of jazz musicians like Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter, amongst others) - not to mention all of the associated artists, none of whom I'd know if it weren't for Prince. No doubt I'm forgetting some.

Aside from the radio, almost all of the music I've been listening to in the last year or so has either been Prince, someone Prince introduced me to (either by playing with them or discussing them as an influence), or someone I've discovered as a result of a Prince connection (a second generation, so to speak - eg. Janis Joplin).

For any other artist, that would suggest a reasonably limited range of music, but that's given me a mix of music ranging from the 50s until today in jazz, funk, soul, R&B, rock and pop.

Love it!

Gustav Mahler. I wonder how many people listened to his Symphony No. 3 because of Prince's shout-out in "Good Love."

Eddie Hazel

d'angelo

sly and the family stone

AC/DC

Jenny Morris/The Delfonics/Santana/Elisa Fiorillo/Funkadelic/Rosie Gaines/Marvin Gaye/Little Richard/Mavis Staples/Curtis Mayfield/Alexander Oneal/Robin Power/TLC/Jesse Johnson/Candy Dulfer/Nikka Costa/Celine Dion/Brown Mark.

Chiquetet said:

Janelle Monae, Esperanza Spalding, Cassandra Wilson, Maceo Parker, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Larry Graham (and thus GCS and Sly & The Family Stone), Ike and Tina Turner, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis (which opened me up to a whole world of jazz musicians like Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter, amongst others) - not to mention all of the associated artists, none of whom I'd know if it weren't for Prince. No doubt I'm forgetting some.

Aside from the radio, almost all of the music I've been listening to in the last year or so has either been Prince, someone Prince introduced me to (either by playing with them or discussing them as an influence), or someone I've discovered as a result of a Prince connection (a second generation, so to speak - eg. Janis Joplin).

For any other artist, that would suggest a reasonably limited range of music, but that's given me a mix of music ranging from the 50s until today in jazz, funk, soul, R&B, rock and pop.

Love it!

EXACTLY, especially the miles davis link. I attribute my whole jazz listening now to Prince introducing me to Miles Davis

I already knew a lot of the artists that were influenced by Prince, but growing to love Prince's work also made me pay closer attention to the brilliance and depth of those artists.

Sly and the Family Stone

Isaac Hayes

Earth, Wind & Fire

Stevie Wonder

Marvin Gaye

Curtis Mayfield

The quirky and multifaceted nature of his work was basically a primer for my embrace of jazz.

After years of listening to Prince, I was hungry for new sounds for other artists with unique voices and sounds:

Me'Shell Ndegeocello

Beck

Maxwell

D'Angelo

et cetera.

Prince didn't turn me on to a whole lot of artists, but appreciating his work helped me appreciate other great artists.

Great question.

Imaginative said:

Crazy as it sounds, The Ballad of Dorothy Parker is what made me want to check out Joni Mitchell. Today, she is among my favorite artists. In addition, Prince may have been partially responsible for me originally checking out JB and P-Funk.

Janelle Monae

Esperanza Spaulding

Ida Nielsen

Joni Mitchell

are who I've started to enjoy (musically speaking)

namepeace said:

I already knew a lot of the artists that were influenced by Prince, but growing to love Prince's work also made me pay closer attention to the brilliance and depth of those artists.

Sly and the Family Stone

Isaac Hayes

Earth, Wind & Fire

Stevie Wonder

Marvin Gaye

Curtis Mayfield

I'll be damned.

He's turned us on to the same people.

I already knew about Sly, but I began to appreciate it more because of Prince.

Same with Curtis Mayfield.

The rest of them were all new to me, but, thanks to , I have a deeper appreciation for them.

DJFreelan said:

namepeace said:

I already knew a lot of the artists that were influenced by Prince, but growing to love Prince's work also made me pay closer attention to the brilliance and depth of those artists.

Sly and the Family Stone

Isaac Hayes

Earth, Wind & Fire

Stevie Wonder

Marvin Gaye

Curtis Mayfield

I'll be damned.

He's turned us on to the same people.

I already knew about Sly, but I began to appreciate it more because of Prince.

Same with Curtis Mayfield.

The rest of them were all new to me, but, thanks to , I have a deeper appreciation for them.

Yeah, a lot of folks, like me, were raised with those artists as young kids and found Prince as teens. The artists I listed were my musical heroes before Prince; but once I got hooked on Prince's music, I noticed more and more about their work than I didn't really appreciate before.

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yeah maybe Joni Mitchell. Hard to say, I might have gotten into her at the same time by coincidence.

Other than that...The Time?

namepeace said:

I already knew a lot of the artists that were influenced by Prince, but growing to love Prince's work also made me pay closer attention to the brilliance and depth of those artists.

Sly and the Family Stone

Isaac Hayes

Earth, Wind & Fire

Stevie Wonder

Marvin Gaye

Curtis Mayfield

The quirky and multifaceted nature of his work was basically a primer for my embrace of jazz.

After years of listening to Prince, I was hungry for new sounds for other artists with unique voices and sounds:

Me'Shell Ndegeocello

Beck

Maxwell

D'Angelo

et cetera.

Prince didn't turn me on to a whole lot of artists, but appreciating his work helped me appreciate other great artists.

Great question.

Couldn't have said it better. Many of those mentioned are already part of my music library including the new artists.

Misty Copeland. I now pay attention to the ballet. I haven't thought about ballet since the

years that Princess Diana fussed over The Royal Ballet of London.

like others, joni mitchell. in addition, george clinton as a solo artist.

maceo parker. the family. eric leeds. sheena easton and sinead o'connor.

the time as well.

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Stevie Wonder
Joni Mitchell
Sly/Larry Graham and all

Maceo Parker

Sheila E, Wendy & Lisa etc. (obviously)

and even James Brown to an extent

... I could go on...

cthdawn said:
I attribute my whole jazz listening now to Prince introducing me to Miles Davis

Cool. I was the other way around - part of the reason I "discovered" Prince was through Miles' biography - he kept talking about his admiration for Prince and I was like "Prince? Huh? That skinny MF with the high voice???"

Similar to a lot of others...

Sly Stone

George Clinton

Graham Central Station

Tried Joni, but it didn't work out.

Imaginative said:

Crazy as it sounds, The Ballad of Dorothy Parker is what made me want to check out Joni Mitchell. Today, she is among my favorite artists. In addition, Prince may have been partially responsible for me originally checking out JB and P-Funk.

Exact same thing happened to me. I got Court & Spark soon after hearing Dorothy Parker back in summer of 87, and fell in love with it. I really dove into Joni's other work after that...Picking up most of her releases, I really got into Hejira...with Coyote being a particular fave track. That led me into checking out The Band's Last Waltz, which Joni sings Coyote live, which helped me fall in love wih of course, The Band, then Neil Young, and Bob Dylan who all were part of the Last Waltz.

Also got into Sly, Jimi, & Miles...

I love all of these artists/bands to this day and it was all because of Prince.