Obama, Fans Within And Beyond US Mourn Late Superstar, PrinceUS President Barack Obama has joined millions of fans in the mourning of the late singer and superstar, Prince. Prince died Thursday after brief health complication in his home in Minnesota at the age of 57. He became a superstar in the 1980s, with the albums in 1999, such as Purple Rain and Sign O’ the Times. Similarly, the Niagara Falls were turned purple to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday, has turned a pleasant coincidence by Prince’s fans online. It would be recalled Prince was hospitalized 15 April, after his private plane made an emergency landing in Illinois.