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ByS. Flannagan

"I'm not a woman, I'm not a man, I am something that you'll never understand," sings the artist Prince Rogers Nelson – best known by the single name Prince, on his 1984 single "I Would Die 4 U." Critics have noted the song – which also contains the lyric "I'm your messiah" – may be written in the voice of Jesus Christ, but which nevertheless works as a manifesto for Prince's own superman indefinability, in both his music and in life.

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An intensely private person as well as an unstoppable show-off, a devoted Christian as well as a shocking promotor of the pleasures of the flesh, Prince was a figure whose complications and contradictions kept audiences wrapt throughout a world-beating 40-year career.

Since his death in 2016, Prince has been remembered as a pop music master, with many outlets, such as Vulture, lauding him as a bona fide genius.

But the high-flying musician's ascension to stardom seems inevitable in hinds