The artist’s publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, said in a statement that he died at his Paisley Park home Thursday morning in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
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Twitter reacts to Prince’s death.
I haven’t stopped crying yet.
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Yeah. He was a year younger than me.
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
I’ll be remembering Prince every time I make music with flute-type sounds.
And flights of angels probably don’t raise a note for fear of not sounding good enough.
If 2016 continues on current form by the end of the year there’ll be nobody with any talent left.
When someone makes an evolutionary tree of music, Prince will be on it, at the root of popfunk -- one of the ur-daddies of the supremely tasty riff. It’s not a bad thing to have done with his life.