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Prince Remembered

Scott LeGere: Lessons from Prince - 'You play? Then play. Here's where you can take it.'

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April 22, 2016

At McNally Smith School of Music one of Prince's guitars sits on a chair, draped with a black shroud. Scott LeGere, the chair of the school's music business department, managed recording sessions for Prince at Paisley Park in the early 2000's. He told MPR News reporter Marianne Combs his time there taught him first and foremost just what an amazing musical talent Prince was.