Watching clips of the Purple Rain tour, there's a little guy dancing on stage on several different tour nights. Anyone know who he is / was?

funkyfine said:

Watching clips of the Purple Rain tour, there's a little guy dancing on stage on several different tour nights. Anyone know who he is / was?

someone asked this not to long ago, i don't think anyone knew. probably related to the crew or something.

Was it Prince??

His name is in the credits, but I don't know who he was related to or where he came from.

Isn't it Dominic or something like that?

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ufoclub said:

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his name is Dominic. Dominic and his parents lived next door to Prince on Kiowa Trail(purple house). Prince used to pay "little Dominic" to wash his cars. Dominics father used to be Princes tour bus driver,hence Dominic appearing onstage at the 1985 Grammys and the Syracuse concert.

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HA! That is awesome. In one of the aforementioned threads, someone said he might be Big Chick's son, but I would think we'd have heard from him by now. We've heard from Chick's daughter pre- and post-Prince's transition. But for him to be a neighbor is a cute story.

ufoclub said:

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his name is Dominic. Dominic and his parents lived next door to Prince on Kiowa Trail(purple house). Prince used to pay "little Dominic" to wash his cars. Dominics father used to be Princes tour bus driver,hence Dominic appearing onstage at the 1985 Grammys and the Syracuse concert.

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That's correct. I talked to his mother back in 2016 after Prince died, and she was selling a Purple Rain tour jacket on ebay (she said she had tons of Prince stuff that was left on the tour bus in her garage that she was considering selling), and while inquiring about more info on the jacket, I asked her about Little Dominic. Sadly, she told me he had passed away about 15 years ago or so, I can't remember the exact year though.

Mindbells9 said:

ufoclub said:

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his name is Dominic. Dominic and his parents lived next door to Prince on Kiowa Trail(purple house). Prince used to pay "little Dominic" to wash his cars. Dominics father used to be Princes tour bus driver,hence Dominic appearing onstage at the 1985 Grammys and the Syracuse concert.

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That's correct. I talked to his mother back in 2016 after Prince died, and she was selling a Purple Rain tour jacket on ebay (she said she had tons of Prince stuff that was left on the tour bus in her garage that she was considering selling), and while inquiring about more info on the jacket, I asked her about Little Dominic. Sadly, she told me he had passed away about 15 years ago or so, I can't remember the exact year though.

that's sad, too young to go.