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When Prince&#x;s mom, Mattie Della Shaw Baker, died on Feb. 15, , he&#x;d long been aware of the great influence she&#x;d had on his art.

It hadn&#x;t all been positive, but it had all been powerful &#x; leaving him, he said, as a person capable of writing the best breakup songs anyone could ask for.

Mattie had been an aspiring jazz singer when she met John L.

Nelson at a concert in They got together both romantically and artistically, with Mattie as lead vocalist in Nelson&#x;s Prince Rogers Trio. They married in and Prince was born the following year, named for Nelson&#x;s stage persona Prince Rogers.

There had even been some drama at that point, Prince reflected in his unfinished memoir The Beautiful Ones, since he believed that his dad had chosen the name in order to demonstrate how important music was to him &#x; a feeling Mattie didn&#x;t share.

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