Alexander was born in Boston and is a graduate of Boston Latin School.[1] He holds an M.S. from Northeastern University[2] and a B.A. from Brandeis University.[3][4]
Alexander fronted "Prince Charles and the City Beat Band"[5] as the lead singer and multi-instrumentalist, with a focus on the wind synthesizer called the "Lyricon" in recordings and in live performances. Along with manager and Executive Producer Tony Rose (Solid Platinum Records & Productions) Prince Charles recorded and co-produced three albums, "Gang War", "Stone Killers", and "Combat Zone" on Virgin Records from the early to mid-1980s.[6]
Alexander is a Professor in the Music Production & Engineering Department[10] at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.[11] He simultaneously held an Adjunct Instructor position at NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music,[12] teaching Music Production from 2006 to 2014. In 2006, Alexander also taught Audio Technology at the Institute of Audio Research in NYC.[13] He has lectured at the City College of New York in Manhattan, the University of Oslo in Oslo, Norway,[14] and the Cape Town Academy at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa.[15] He is a member of the Producers and Engineers Wing of the Grammy Committee Board of Governors,[16] the Audio Engineering Society (AES)[17] and the Musician's Union Local 802 in New York City.[18]
He is author[19] of Hip-Hop Production: Inside the Beats (Berklee Press, 2022), a book about the technological history of hip-hop. In November 2023, the Africana Studies Division at Berklee College of Music inducted Prince Charles Alexander into the Berklee Hip-Hop Hall of Fame.[20]
