Certainly when you ask people for the most famous musician from Minnesota it will be one of two guys, Dylan or Prince, and Dylan didn’t spend a lot of time there.
No Dylan was born in Hibbing and pretty much left. Prince was here his whole life. He made it a point to stay here away from the madness that is LA or NYC.
I know Prince through my work in television production. He worked on his projects in our edit suites.
I moved to Minneapolis in 1984 when Prince was on the rise. It’s weird but I feel like I lost part of my youth. I don’t usually get affected by the passing of a music star. This one bothers me a lot. I guess I miss South Minneapolis.