Stars React to the Sudden Death of Prince

Robert Kessler
·Editor
Prince (Photo: WireImage)
Prince (Photo: WireImage)

After a brief hospitalization last week, Prince died Thursday morning at his home in suburban Minneapolis, his publicist has confirmed. A legend since his second album Prince came out in 1979, the star’s seemingly sudden death has shocked the world.

He Changed The World!! A True Visionary. What a loss. I’m Devastated. This is Not A Love Song.

A photo posted by Madonna (@madonna) on Apr 21, 2016 at 11:17am PDT

Genius, legend, inspiration, friend. The world will miss you. I’ll never get over it.

A photo posted by Mariah Carey (@mariahcarey) on Apr 21, 2016 at 12:29pm PDT

A Prince Among Men When I was in college I had 2 friends who were obsessed with Prince. They’d been to concerts, had his albums, sang every word to his songs. I didn’t get it. I wasn’t into Prince. I knew a few songs but to me he was a li’l man in purple ruffles. I don’t like purple and hated ruffles. Then I moved to Los Angeles and for some ungodly reason I joined the pyramid scheme known as Columbia House CD Club and ordered 8 CD’s for a penny. I KNOW RIGHT?!?! That’s a steal! (It wasn’t. Google it.) One of the albums I got for 3/8 of a cent was Prince’s The Hits/The B Sides. It was a box set and it was a revelation I never saw coming. I was obsessed with that damn box set. How had I not been into music’s purple waif genius? Thanks to that pyramid scheme I was never NOT listening to it. It was my Hamilton Cast album at the time. I would drive around LA jobless while it blasted on my sound system. I drove an ’84 convertible Mustang at the time and would drive up and down Sunset Boulevard with my top down singing When Doves Cry Let’s Go Crazy 1999 Nothing Compares 2 U Diamonds and Pearls Delirious Little Red Corvette I Would Die 4 U Kiss Cream Purple Rain But my favorite to sing like I WROTE THAT SHIT was 7. I just knew that some Hollywood powerhouse would hear me in my raggedy ass car, recognize the raw talent and make my Hollywood dreams come true. Thank you Prince for being a part of my early starlet dreams . . . KISS.

A photo posted by Retta (@unforettable) on Apr 21, 2016 at 11:06am PDT

Shocked and soooo sad!! #RIP PRINCE #music #legend #gonetoosoon

A photo posted by Jennifer Lopez (@jlo) on Apr 21, 2016 at 11:01am PDT

Today we lost a true artist. Thank you #Prince for all the music you put into this world. #RIP

A photo posted by Reese Witherspoon (@reesewitherspoon) on Apr 21, 2016 at 11:02am PDT

There will never be another. #prince #ripprince

A photo posted by Christina Ricci (@riccigrams) on Apr 21, 2016 at 10:42am PDT

Prince. #RestInPurple

A photo posted by The Game (@losangelesconfidential) on Apr 21, 2016 at 11:05am PDT

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