LinkedIn.com, May 2026 Ten years after his passing, I find myself thinking about what made Prince not just a genius, but a true visionary innovator.
The Symbol Was Never About Eccentricity
To understand Prince’s thinking in the years I worked with him, you have to understand why he became “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince” in the first place.
In 1993, Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol — a combination of the male and female signs, merged into something entirely his own. The mainstream press treated it as the act of an eccentric megastar gone too far. But it was nothing of the sort. It was a deliberate, radical act of protest.
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