To be a high school graduate in 1986 in a suburb of Minneapolis was to be steeped in the mystery of mystique of Prince at every turn. He was omnipresent yet elusive in the backrooms and on the stages of the clubs he was elevating to world wide recognition. It was at that time that I spent a year as an exchange student in Sweden and realized that being from the same hometown as Prince not only told people where I was from, it made me somehow cooler too. And so began a lifetime of travels that connected Prince and me through the love of our shared home, Minneapolis. Through decades of journeys and 47 countries, Prince was the calling card I used to introduce my city to new friends around the world.
