The Singer Prince has died.

[Thomas Promise]

Pop music superstar Prince has been found dead at his home in suburban Minneapolis. His full name Prince Rogers Nelson @ 57.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3552300/Fatality-Prince-s-estate-Minnesota-days-musician-rushed-hospital.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

[dnoblett]

Purple Rain

 

https://youtu.be/EsRUAoUvP10

 

Reason had a great writeup.

 

 

Beyond being the most prodigiously gifted musician-as-musician of his era, frequently composing, producing, and performing everything on his records, he was a bold rebel in terms of image and message, playing with still-prevalent social confines of propriety in behavior, dress, and comportment, mixing sex and religion like they were his own personal possession he was generous enough to share with us, destroying color lines in pop music and its fandom.

http://reason.com/blog/2016/04/21/prince-rip