Washington : The life of singer Prince, who has died at the age of 57, is being marked with purple-coloured tributes, reports IANS.
Buildings, newspaper front pages and websites across the US and beyond have changed colour in his honour, BBC reported.
Prince was found dead at his Minnesota home on Thursday. He became a superstar in the 1980s, with the albums 1999, Purple Rain and Sign O’ the Times.
No cause of death has been stated. US President Barack Obama said the world has “lost a creative icon”.
Prince’s innovative music spanned rock, funk and jazz. He sold more than 100 million records during his career.
In Prince’s native Minneapolis, the Minnesota Twins baseball team turned their stadium purple, as did the Lowry Avenue Bridge in the centre of the city.
Other prominent buildings in New York and New Orleans were also given a new purple look. And while the Niagara Falls were turned purple to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday, the coincidence was welcomed by Prince fans online.
MTV’s Twitter logo has also turned purple. In Britain, the front page of the Sun newspaper featured a photo of Prince against a purple background with the headline: “Purple reign is over”.
Hundreds of people gathered in the centre of Minneapolis into the early hours of Friday. At one point, they all came together to sing Prince’s 1984 hit Purple Rain.
Vigils for the singer were also held outside his home as well as in Los Angeles and Brooklyn, where the film director Spike Lee, a friend of Prince’s, led an impromptu street party. Paisley Park feels like the new Graceland. Prince’s home and recording studio is awash with tears and tributes.
Well into the night, thousands of fans came here to lay flowers, cards and balloons at a makeshift shrine.
