As the world still tries to process the news that Prince is dead, musicians like Aretha Franklin, Mick Jagger and Madonna have done their best to honor the man with the unfettered falsetto and unparalleled influence on music.
In a post on his Tumblr on Thursday, Frank Ocean said while he never got to meet Prince — “I was too nervous the one time I saw him,” he said — the singer directly changed his life, musically and otherwise.
“He made me feel more comfortable with how I identify sexually simply by his display of freedom from and irreverence for obviously archaic ideas like gender conformity etc,” the singer wrote. “He moved me to be more daring and intuitive with my own work by his demonstration – his denial of the prevailing model…his fight for his intellectual property – ‘slave’ written across the forehead, name changed to a symbol… an all out rebellion against exploitation.” Read more…
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