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AT A GLANCE:
Anna Prince
Dr.
Anna Prince studied broadcasting and media at the Carolina School
of Broadcasting where she received a diploma. She was also a student
at the United Christian Academy and received a diploma from Southwest
Technical College. She is a licensed Bible teacher. She received
a music doctorate from the London Institute of Applied Research.
After moving to Nashville Tennessee in 1986, Dr., Prince became
a television executive at Viacom/Intermedia television channel 19.
She is the executive Director and host of "Real Heroes of Country
Music', a thirty six part series Emmy nominee. Each show features
Dr. Prince talking with a different guest about the early years
of Nashville and Country Music. Her aspiration for the show came
at a R.O.P.E. (Reunion of Professional Entertainers) meeting.
Dr. Prince says, "I saw Bill Monroe and people that had been
there and were fading now, and I realized that there are stories
that are passing here that we need to capture.' When Anna
Prince was a small child, she performed as a singer and guitarist
for her Evangelist father. She loved entertaining, and by the age
of nine., she was writing lyrics and composing music. Her career
began as a songwriter for Hank Locklin Music Company in Nashville.
She was an entertainer at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville Tennessee,
where she told tales of life in the Great Smokey Mountains and sang
songs including this one;
"I'd like to meet you, sit down and be
with you. The sunshine that warms me, is rising on you You are my
Brother, my Sister and Mother I already love you, I'd like to meet
you."
Anna Prince, author of 23 recorded
songs to date, wrote "I Feel a Cry Coming On' , which was number
one in England,. Another
number one in England she wrote was, "The Best Part of Loving
You'' . "Anna", a song she wrote as a tribute to her mother,
made the Billboard list and was re-recorded in Ireland, becoming
another European hit. It also became a number one hit in New Zealand.
One of her most recent hits which she sang and wrote was, "I'm
In Love With You', was popular in Belgium.
She has a current CD , ten song CD album on
the KMA label which recently ranked #25 in the whole of Europe.
Anna Prince is loved by people everywhere she goes and she loves
people.
In recognition of her accomplishments , Dr. Prince was nominated
a Distinguished Woman of North Carolina, by
the North Carolina Council on the Status of Women in 1984. She is
a current member of the Country Music Association, Broadcast Music
Incorporated, Reunion of Professional Entertainers, the Fraternal
Order of Police and Maison Internationales des Intellectuals. She
is Dame of the Knight of Templars and the Lofsensic Order. With
the International Parliament of for Safety and Peace, Dr. Prince
is a life member, deputy of foreign affairs and a deputy member
of the assembly. She is a moderator and former teacher of Nashville
Songwriters Association International.
Born
in Isabella Tennessee, Dr. Prince is the daughter of Reverend Ulysses
and Della (Hawkins) Prince. Anna is a widow with three daughters,
Sandy, Teresa and Vandi. Her hobbies include gourmet cooking, playing
guitar, landscape painting and public speaking. . She has traced
her family lineage back to John Prince, father of John and William,
in Gloucester, England in 1569. Her forefather Edward migrated from
London to Virginia in 1635, at the request of King Charles: he helped
set up the American Government and was a member of the House of
Burgess.
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A charming tale from Anna's early years


Anna Prince grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. The song
she wrote her for Mama & Daddy became an International Hit!
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