Legendary R&B artist Prince Rogers Nelson, known simply as Prince, has died, the has confirmed. He was 57.
He passed at his home in suburban Minneapolis.
Last week, that Prince’s flight from Atlanta back to his home in Minnesota made an emergency landing, resulting in the artist’s hospitalization. He was reportedly suffering flu-like symptoms.
As thanks for the outpouring of support he received in the wake of his illness, the artist threw a dance party for his fans in his Paisley Park Studios compound in Chanhassen, Minnesota on Saturday:
2 GIVE THANX 4 THE GOOD WEATHER AND 4 ALL THE LOVE AND SUPPORT…
— Prince (@prince)
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The artist was subsequently around Paisley Park Studios.
Prince has an immeasurable legacy in R&B and rock and roll music. His silky falsetto and promiscuous lyrics made him one of his era’s biggest rock icons. He’s best known for the 1984 soundtrack to the film of the same name, “Purple Rain.”
Prince last stopped in Denver in 2013, when he played four sold-out shows at the relatively small Ogden Theatre. Here’s how Reverb’s Ricardo Baca summed up one of the evenings:
The way he looks so damn comfortable on stage. His unquestionable style and inimitable confidence. The trademark glitch between his deliberately round baritone and his gimme-more falsetto.
Prince’s late-night show at the Ogden Theatre on Sunday was a stunner. More rock than funk, more quirky than familiar, the brief 90-minute set trended toward album tracks and B-sides as opposed to the artistap many ubiquitous hits. The audience didn’t seem to mind the deep grooves, the extended solos and the quick whiplash of a concert; They came, they danced, they sang along and they spilled out on East Colfax Avenue at 1:05 a.m. as a slap-happy mess.
