“I thought it was a prank, so I didn’t answer!” She put a video of herself playing bass on YouTube. Then Prince called

Prince performs his first of three shows onstage during "One Night... Three Venues" hosted by Prince and Lotusflow3r.com held at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE on March 28, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

Moving to Berklee while still in her teens, Alissia Benveniste, who records under her first name, soon found herself riding a wave of recognition in the wake of her first viral YouTube video back in 2015.

“That was how Prince found me,” says Alissia. “Social media wasn't a big thing at the time. There was no TikTok or Instagram, so I was just posting whatever I was shedding on YouTube. Then we shot a video with my band from Berklee, which went viral and all of a sudden I was getting a lot of attention.”