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Why did Prince change his name to a symbol? The rift that led to the unpronounceable glyph - Mirror Online
Prince - From June 7, 1993, to May 16, 2000, Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol to protest the recording industry's ownership of artists' work, and to "move to a
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