BY MEGHANN BIGG
THIS is becoming a year where we are losing legends among us that have made a powerful impact.
This statement was at its truest last week, when music legend Prince died suddenly at the age of 57.
The world was stunned when they found out the news as his music defied ages, races and genders, meaning that universally everyone felt remorse at his tragic passing.
He was one of the most prolific artists in music, releasing 39 studio albums, including four in the last 18 months.
It has been stated that he was obsessed with ownership of his work, which is why he distributed so much of it even in the last year and a half of his life.
He continued to confound expectations with his psychedelic tracks, each of them laced with his trademark deep synth funk, a sound he constantly refined and stripped back.
As a young person, Prince’s music didn’t leave the same impact with me as it did with other people.
However, his death has been significant to a younger generation as it has encouraged them to reminisce on his illustrious career as an artist and as a humanist.
Prince’s death has stimulated me and a whole generation to look back on his career, as he was truly a pop renaissance man of unmatched talent.
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