Purple Rain singer whose sprawling career spanned decades and genres dies at his Paisley Park recording studio in his domestic state of Minnesota Live blog: tributes and reaction to the death of one of music’s greats
The unique and endlessly creative artist Prince has died at his Paisley Park domestic,outside Minneapolis, aged 57, and leaving behind him a gaping gap in musical genres as diverse as R&B,rock, funk and pop.
The death was announced by his publicist Yvette Noel-Schure after police had been called to the premises which double as his music studio in the Minnesota city. No details were immediately given for the cause of death, and though final week he was rushed to hospital apparently recovering from a bout of flu that had forced his private jet to make an emergency landing in Illinois.
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Source: theguardian.com