That was very much the point.

The real singer behind Powerline, the "biggest rock star on the planet," according to Goofy's son Max in "A Goofy Movie" (1995), is Tevin Campbell.

By the time the movie came out, R&B singer Campbell was an established star with multiple Grammy nominations to his name. But at the time the "Goofy Movie" producers were putting together the script and music for the movie, he was relatively unknown.

The producers had already decided they wanted to shape Powerline partly in funk-pop megastar Prince's image. One of the reasons they chose Campbell was because he'd worked with the artist in the past. According to music associate producer Bambi Moe, Campbell was known at the time as "Prince's protégé."

Having chosen to hire someone who had worked so closely with Prince (as well as other R&B greats such as Quincy Jones), they had to provide him with a song that was at that level. So, to produce the track itself, they approached Prince's longtime producer and recording engineer, David Z. That led to an even more direct Prince connection.

"When [David] said yes, I literally thought I was going to faint," Moe said in an interview with SlashFilm.com. "Because he suggested immediately that we record the tracks at Paisley Park. So for me, as a music person, that's like – getting to work at Paisley Park? Where Prince creates? That's unbelievable!" (Paisley Park was Prince's own lavish estate and production studio.)

With the team in place, they were able to bring Powerline to life and eventually create the concert scene that forms the film's climax.

It was something of a climax for Campbell himself. His career fizzled shortly after "A Goofy Movie" came out, with subsequent albums failing to find the same success as his early-'90s work. He's still working today, though, so there's always hope for a comeback.

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