This Prince Set the Stage for the Minneapolis Sound... In 1896

Former slave Prince Honeycutt was a civic leader in Fergus Falls, MN, where he helped to settle African-American migrants looking for a better life. Two of those families - the Tates and the Andersons - are the ancestors of the architects of the Minneapolis Sound.

Discover how Jimmy Jam Harris and Prince owe their musical pioneering to the Black pioneers of Western MN.
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