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You say he was primarily an 80s phenomenon, yet more than half his CDs were released since 2000. He won two grammies in this century. His performance at the 2007 SB is pretty much considered one of the greatest drop the mic moments in music history (and he did it in the middle of a torential downpour). He played over 20 instruments, several of them at a virtuoso level. He was Michael Jackson with a boatload more talent.He was an androgynous black chameleon who brought the sex/romantic thing and a bit of rock into pop r&b. I get all that; that's how he was different. But his was a very narrowly defined, primarily '80s phenomenon that didn't go far beyond himself or the Minneapolis scene in terms of "influence." Adam Ant was doing something similar with the "new romantic" movement in the U.K. about that same time.