“Hey man have you heard that new Prince song?” “Who's Prince?” “You know who I mean, The Artist Formerly Known as Prince,Prince” Prince Rogers Nelson In 1993, the vocal artist Prince announced he would henceforth be known by a rune (glyph) combining the astrological symbols for man and woman with a bizarre annotation ( ). He explained his new designator: ‘It is an unpronounceable symbol whose meaning has not been identified. It's all about thinking in new ways, tuning in to a new free-quency’.