Diamonds and pearls is the 13th studio album by american recording artist prince and the first with his new backing band the new power generation it was released on october 1 1991 by paisley park records and warner bros records. The paradons are know best for the beautiful diamonds and pearls which reached number 18 on the pop chart in 1960 nine rungs higher than it registered on. Heres his entry for diamonds and pearls written as a duet with rosie gaines prince vowed never 2 performs it with anyone else as much as prince wanted rosie 2 go solo he hated the fact that