O.T.O.H., no one knows, or has ever heard, what Prince sounded like as a young child, or in his very early teens when he first started going through the beginning stages of his adolescence. By the time the public would have first heard from him, in general (around 1978 or ’79), he had already fully grown up into a young adult MAN - as Michael had, too, since they were both the same age - and, unlike the way Michael’s adult voice turned out to be, as a still quite “young”-sounding extremely High Tenor (from his late teens on, towards well into middle-age) who could pretty much sing high notes without the need for using his “Falsetto” or having to rely on it, exclusively, Prince’s voice was already fully developed into a deep Baritone with an extremely wide Vocal Range.
He could hit notes that Michael couldn’t hit at all. O.T.O.H., Michael could belt out notes and sustain them, very far up into his Chest and Head Voices, something that Prince never could do. Both of them could express their emotions and feelings very well, too. The only difference between them, as far as that’s concerned, was Michael’s ability to do it at such a young age, when he was still a child. This was WAY before he was old enough to have been through certain types of life experiences, or even fully understood the meaning what he was expressing, let alone that of the lyrics, themselves. People who remembered the earlier “Motown”-era of The Jackson 5’s career (and, according to many reports in the media, during that time) would often mention how “mature” - or, “beyond his years,” emotionally - Michael was, for his age, in spite of his youth. But, that emotional expression grew, as he grew up, and went through more experiences in his life. The albums he recorded (and, the songs he would later write), particularly, from “Dangerous” onwards, give solid evidence of this.
