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There has always been talk concerning who the true musical geniuses are throughout history. Mozart was considered a musical
genius, while Bach was considered as more of a technical composer, yet when you look at the overall body of work, and realize
which musician most music teachers based the teaching of composition on, one might be hard pressed to overlook Bach as being on
par with, though from a different era, with Mozart, if not possibly a step above. I’d pick Mozart, by the way, but that’s here nor
there.

When we move to the 20th and 21st century, and more in particular this thing we call popular music, the term is still loosely
bandied about. Most of the time, it’s used just because someone has released a new album that some critic thinks is really good.
But that’s not how genius is supposed to be measured. Musical genius is measured by the musicianship, the diversification, and
longevity, and the relevance of that musician.

This knocks singers out of the mix immediately, if singing is their only vocation. So, we move to musicians, instrumentalists,
who just might be singers also. These geniuses must play more than one instrument, so that knocks out most of the rest. And the
other instrument can’t just be a harmonica, so that knocks out many more.

When we really take a good look at it, there might be less than 5 real music geniuses in the history of popular music. I have
three that I’m going to talk about, and one of them is going to shock people.

Third on my list of musical geniuses is Barbara Mandrell; I can hear the gasps already.
Barbara
Mandrell was a country singer from the 60′s through 80′s, who also had a hit television show. Forget that she had the most
remarkable blue eyes for a second; this woman was a musical genius. She played seven instruments proficiently by the time she was
11 years old. She was a composer and lyricist, and learned how to dance pretty well for her TV show. She won grammys, released
30 albums but was included on 36, won Dove Awards, Country Music Association awards, and 9 People’s Choice awards in 5 years.
All of this spanned over a 30 year career, and even though, by this time, she hasn’t performed in 10 years, she’s still a member
of the Grand Old Opry, which doesn’t dole those things out on a whim.

The next two musicians are still putting out new music today. Second on my list is Prince, his royal badness. How many
instruments can
Prince
play? Almost all of them it seems, as, with his first two albums, he played every instrument on every song. And can he write
some songs; pick a genre, Prince has done it. Pop, funk, soul, country, heavy metal, ballads, soundtracks, religious, dirty, rap,
punk,