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|song name = Family Name | |song name = Family Name | ||
|single image = [[File:Rainbowchildren_album.jpg|100px|link=Album: The Rainbow Children]] <br><small> from the album [[Album: The Rainbow Children|The Rainbow Children]]</small> | |single image = [[File:Rainbowchildren_album.jpg|100px|link= Album: The Rainbow Children]] <br><small> from the album [[Album: The Rainbow Children|The Rainbow Children]]</small> | ||
|performer = [[Prince]] | |performer = [[Prince]] | ||
|first released = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/October 16|16 October | |first released = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/October 16|16 October 2001]] - [[Album: The Rainbow Children|The Rainbow Children]] album | ||
|album(s) = [[Album: The Rainbow Children|The Rainbow Children]]<br> | |album(s) = [[Album: The Rainbow Children|The Rainbow Children]]<br> | ||
[[Album: One Nite Alone... Live!|One Nite Alone... Live!]] | [[Album: One Nite Alone... Live!|One Nite Alone... Live!]] | ||
|writer(s) = [[Prince]] | |writer(s) = [[Prince]] | ||
|producer(s) = [[Prince]] | |producer(s) = [[Prince]] | ||
|previous song = [[False Alarm]] | |previous song = [[False Alarm]] | ||
|next song = [[Famous]] | |next song = [[Famous]] | ||
|introduction = '''Family Name''' is the twelfth track on [[Prince]] | |introduction = '''Family Name''' is the twelfth track on [[Prince]]’s 24th album [[Album: The Rainbow Children|The Rainbow Children]], his first album after reverting to the name [[Prince]]. In 2002, a live version was included as the first track on the second disc of [[Prince]]’s first live album [[Album: One Nite Alone... Live!|One Nite Alone... Live!]] (along with [[Xenophobia]], [[Extraordinary]], [[Avalanche]], [[Raspberry Beret]], [[The Everlasting Now]], [[File:EyeBlue.png|link=I Wanna Be Your Lover]][[I Wanna Be Your Lover| Wanna B Ur Lover]], [[Diamonds And Pearls|Diamonds & Pearls]], [[The Beautiful Ones]], [[Nothing Compares 2 U]] and [[How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore]] from the same show). | ||
Specific recording dates are unknown, but it is likely that | Specific recording dates are unknown, but it is likely that basic tracking took place in late 2000 or early 2001 at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota. The song opens with a long computer voice introduction over a musical backing, saying "welcome to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_records Akashic Records] genetic information division", before asking the user to input the requested genetic history. After a keystroke, the computer responds by saying "you have chosen African-American" before launching into a dramatized situation where an African slave is banished from England, and sent to the USA, where he is told his previous family name is no longer valid and he is renamed. The song continues from there, and ends with a sample from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream "I have a dream" speech], delivered in Washington, D.C., USA, on 28 August 1963. The full paragraph of the speech, which [[Prince]] samples from here, is: ''"And when this happens,and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."'' ([[Prince]] had previously sampled this in the opening of his televised concert to celebrate his "emancipation" from his contract with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records Warner Bros.], on [[12 November 1996]]). | ||
|recording info = | |recording info = | ||
{{RecordingLine| | {{RecordingLine| | ||
|date = Late 2000 - early 2001 | |date = Late 2000 - early 2001 | ||
|studio = [[Paisley Park Studios]], Chanhassen, MN, USA | |studio = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA | ||
|additional info = | |additional info = Tracking | ||
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|recording personnel = | |recording personnel = | ||
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|3= [[Album: One Nite Alone... Live!|One Nite Alone... Live!]] | |3= [[Album: One Nite Alone... Live!|One Nite Alone... Live!]] | ||
|4= Live | |4= Live | ||
|5= [[30_April | |5= [[30_April 2002|30 April 2002, Portland Center for the Performing Arts - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR, USA]] | ||
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|3= [[Home Video: Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas| Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas]] DVD | |3= [[Home Video: Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas| Live At The Aladdin Las Vegas]] DVD | ||
|4= Live | |4= Live | ||
|5= [[15 December | |5= [[15 December 2002|15 December 2002, Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts, Las Vegas, NV, USA]] | ||
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|unreleased versions = | |unreleased versions = | ||
|sampled in = | |sampled in = | ||
|first live appearance = [[15 January | |first live appearance = [[12 June 2001-am|12 June 2001 (a.m.): Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA]] <small> ''interpolation in'' [[Bambi]] </small>; [[15 January 2002-am|15 January 2002 (a.m.): Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA]]<br> | ||
* [[15 December 2002|15 December 2002, Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts, Las Vegas, NV, USA]] | |||
|performed regularly on = [[One Nite Alone... Tour]] | |performed regularly on = [[One Nite Alone... Tour]] | ||
|performed occasionally in = [[All Concerts#2002|2002]] | |performed occasionally in = [[All Concerts#2002|2002]] | ||
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|see also = [[Album: The Rainbow Children|The Rainbow Children]] album | |see also = [[Album: The Rainbow Children|The Rainbow Children]] album | ||
|references = ''[[Book:_The_Vault|The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)]] '' | |references = ''[[Book:_The_Vault|The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)]] '' | ||
|categories = [[Category:2001]][[Category: | |categories = [[Category:2001]][[Category:Recorded 2001]][[Category:Songs (Prince)]][[Category:Released Songs (Prince)]] | ||
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