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Brenda Fuentes, better known by her stage name Bria Valente is an American singer. A protégée of Prince, Valente released her debut album, Elixer, as part of a three-album set with Prince's Lotusflow3r and MPLSound on March 29, 2009. The collection debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
- Valente Began as A Backing Singer For Prince & Usher
- Her Whereabouts Are A Constant Discussion Point at Prince.Org
- She Wasn’T The only Backup Singer That Prince Got Involved with
She was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as Brenda Fuentes. Her AllMusic biodescribes her beginnings as being as a backup singer for Usher as well as being a model in Los Angeles. In an interview with Tavis Smiley in 2009, which you can watch above, Valente said that she first met Prince when she was 17 at Paisley Park Studios, prior to moving to Lo...
There are constant discussions about Valente’s whereabouts on Prince.org, the singer’s official messageboard. One user on the forum claimed to know that Prince only took her under his wing as a favor to a friend. In Prince: Chaos, Disorder, and Revolution,it’s noted that one review of Valente’s album included the line, “a throwaway, done as a favor...
Famously Prince was linked to dozens of women during his illustrious career. In 1996, when the singer was 37, he married his backup singer, Mayte Garcia, who was 22 at the time. They had a child together, Boy Gregory,he died just a week after his birth due to a condition known as Pfeiffer snydrome. The couple divorced in 1999.
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Lotusflow3r is a triple album set by American recording artist Prince and protégée Bria Valente. It contains the thirty-third and thirty-fourth studio albums by Prince, Lotusflow3r (stylized as LOtUSFLOW3R) and MPLSound (stylized as MPLSoUND), as well as Elixer, the debut studio album by Bria Valente.
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Brenda Fuentes, better known by her stage name Bria Valente is an American singer. A protégée of Prince, Valente released her debut album, Elixer, as part of a three-album set with Prince's Lotusflow3r and MPLSound on March 29, 2009.