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Strawberrylova
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Prince’s family lived in Cotton Valley, Louisiana for generations; here’s their story

Jaclyn Tripp

Posted, later updated: Jul 29, 2024

COTTON VALLEY, La. (KTAL/KMSS)

If you love the music of Prince, now’s your chance to put on your favorite raspberry beret and learn about the artist’s roots in the Deep South.


Prince Rogers Nelson had nineteen top 10 songs and won an Oscar during his career. And though he was born in Minnesota, many of his fans are not aware that Prince’s dad was from a tiny town rural northwest Louisiana called Cotton Valley.

The small town is in Webster Parish and is located about a twenty-minute drive from the Arkansas state line.

Read more here:

https://www.klfy.com/loui...eir-story/

(Edited, l'ange bleu moderator, for copyright purposes)

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Reply #1 posted 07/31/24 1:15pm

LILpoundCAKE
amazing information here. lots of stuff I had never read before. was this common knowledge to a lot of people here? would have been a good start to a biography on prince.
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Reply #2 posted 07/31/24 2:19pm

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cool

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #3 posted 07/31/24 5:22pm

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LILpoundCAKE said:

amazing information here. lots of stuff I had never read before.


was this common knowledge to a lot of people here?


would have been a good start to a biography on prince.


News to me smile
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