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This photo taken on June 16, 1990 shows musician Prince performing on stage during his concert at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris.
Pop icon Prince -- whose pioneering brand of danceable funk made him one of music's most influential figures -- died on April 21, 2016 at his compound in Minnesota. He was 57. The announcement came just a week after the Grammy and Oscar winner was taken to hospital with a bad bout of influenza, although he made light of his health problems after the scare.
/ AFP PHOTO / Bertrand GUAY

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This photo taken on May 4, 1994 shows musician Prince performing on stage during the World Music Awards ceremony in Monaco.
Pop icon Prince -- whose pioneering brand of danceable funk made him one of music's most influential figures -- died on April 21, 2016 at his compound in Minnesota. He was 57. The announcement came just a week after the Grammy and Oscar winner was taken to hospital with a bad bout of influenza, although he made light of his health problems after the scare.
/ AFP PHOTO / Patrick HERTZOG

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A picture taken on April 25, 2016 shows the plate of a moto in tribute to Congolese world music legend, renowned as the "king of Congolese rumba", Papa Wemba, in Mbinza, near Kinshasa.
Papa Wemba, one of Africa's greatest music stars, died on April 24 after collapsing on stage during a festival in Ivory Coast. The Congolese world music legend, renowned as the "king of Congolese rumba" for the fusion of Cuban and electronic rock that he pioneered in the 1970s, was 66.
/ AFP PHOTO / JUNIOR KANNAH

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