Another cultural icon has died. When someone programmed with that level of creative genius crosses over it rocks many people to the core because their emotional DNA is tied up with the performer's music - a harmonic given to us during a specific time frame or frequency within the matrix of our experiences here. Music is immortal but seeing an icon cross over makes us more aware of our own immortality and how we fit into the window of what remains for us in the duration of this reality. Never forget that reality is created by sound, light, and color, brought forth in algorithmic tones to experience consciousness vicariously.

The pop music superstar was one of the most amazing musical performers of the last century, spanning rock, funk, soul, R&B, and pop genres. He could play anything. One of Prince's first albums he composed, recorded, and played all 27 instruments. Prince was two months older than Michael Jackson. Both were visionaries. They seem to carry the same energy and frequency which connects me to three performers in my age group - David Bowie -- Mick Jagger and Steven Tyler - slim and androgynous or effeminate.

  Prince died of accidental overdose of opioid fentanyl, medical examiner says   CNN - June 2, 2016
Toxicology tests for Prince concluded that the entertainer died from an accidental overdose of the opioid fentanyl, according to a report on his death by the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office. He was 5 foot 3 inches tall and 112 pounds.

How Prince and Michael Jackson led parallel lives   CNN - May 10, 2016
They were born the same year and rose to colossal fame in the 1980s. Each defined a sound for a generation. They were both committed musicians who helped to integrate the world of mainstream music videos. Prince and Jackson were intensely private, almost otherworldly. They often retreated into their homes, which were really compounds that let them close off the world. In life, their careers seemed to track, but rarely touch, one another. Were they friends? Not really. Were they rivals? Not really. In death -- Prince last month, Jackson in 2009 -- the two are finally more closely linked in one way: Their deaths were shocking, untimely and tragic.

  Prince, singer and superstar, dies aged 57 at Paisley Park   BBC - April 21, 2016
The hugely popular, acclaimed and influential musician Prince has died at his home in Minnesota at the age of 57.