Hosted muse parties and gave concerts. The singersongwriter whose name was prince Rogers Nelson was wrote his first song at age of 7. His 1984 album, purple rain sold 13 million copies in the u. S. Spent 24 weeks at number one on billboard chart. His film of the same name won him Academy Award and grossed 80 million. Prince simultaneously at number one album, film and single. He sold 100 million albums making 7th bestselling artist. He had 30 grammy nominations, golden globe and Academy Award for music score of purple rain. We have the host of in the fox light, and carley shimkus, reporter for fox News Headlines 24 7. On a very sad day. Michael, begin with you. We knew he had flu and had a Emergency Landing of the plane, very dramatic. He gave a concert the next day. What is your reaction . Shocking and sad. I havent felt like this since passing of whitney houston. One of those you cant believe it. His impact on music business will go on for decades. So many Young Artists he influenced. See on twitter with everyone reacting. Ashley was really prolific. Gender boundary, sexual boundaries and business. He is one of the first artists to fight for control of his own content and creative music. Ashley let me bring in carli to get her response to this. Shocking news, carly . It is really is. Outpouring on social media is unbelievable. Really something ive never seen before. This is breaking story which obviously means it just happened. 1. 5 million tweets sent out with his name in it. Celebrities running gambit of Music Industry. Demi lovato. Lynn miranda, keith urban tweeting out their support and sorrow. More importantly, regular people, just like you and me are also tweeting as well. There are pictures being posted on twitter. People hugging, trying to wrap their brain around just what happened. He meant so much to the community that he lived in minnesota. It is really interesting, even though he was a big Music Industry celebrity he stayed in that small town. That is one of the things that made him so special. Why he is being mourned across the country today. Ashley really good point. Paisley park is 50 miles southwest of minneapolis. He was born there, lived there his entire life. He came out of the music scene in minneapolis, didnt he . That is what i love about him so much. He was grounded. You dont have a can year for 30 years. He never went hollywood or got into the new york scene. He dated bigknown stars, kim basinger, madonna, carl men electra. Never went hollywood. Hometown boy born in minneapolis. Ashley he was considered a perfection shunnist in the studio. He pushed the boundaries. His music was pop, rock, funk, it was everything. For music it was personal, it was art. Artists like that last 30 years, theyre very detailed oriented by nature. I think that is fair to say. Ashley carley, his first album was released back in 1978. He was still relevant in todays music scene which isnt easy to do when musical tastes change. He sure was. Even though youre right, he was grounded, he was also this larger than life person, wasnt he . Youre always a little curious about him. He was very shy. What does is he really thinking . I think that spoke to a lot of people. Like you said, 100 million records worldwide sold making him one of the bestselling artists of all times. That means this man ace career had staying power. A lot of people certainly dont. A larger than life celebrity passed away today. Carli makes a great point. He was so shy. A lot of celebrities and artists put everything out there. While he was out there there was mystery about him. That was part of his greatness. Ashley there was a spell where he dropped his name and use ad symbol. People thought he was out there. Added to his appeal. Ashley and his mystique. You know youre big in the business by one name or ashley. Ashley not going to work. That was part of his dispute with Warner Brothers. Ashley he was in a dispute with the label. You will not get my name on the record, you can just have a symbol. Yeah. Ashley interesting stuff. That album on top of the itunes chart right now. Ashley that is amazing too. Incredible. He was also not only a perfectionist and prolific as we said. He was brilliant musician. I dont know whether he got the credit. He could play, nine, 10, 11 instruments. I think he was brilliant guitarist. Incredible guitarist. Ashley and underrated. So many future musicians he probably influenced. Ashley yeah. His legacy will be all of us Walking Around today humming his music and allstars with belated gaga or Sheena Easton who he created, that is his legacy. Ashley very sad day for music. Carley thanks for joining us. Michael too. A tough year for music world, glenn frey, merle haggard, david bowie and prince. If we have more details well bring them to you. Also breaking now, rnc rules Committee Meeting in a luxury seaside resort in florida. Of course it is luxury. Messy fight for the convention as candidates doing their best to woo party leaders, woo. Peter barnes is live outside of these meetings. Peter, what are you hearing about todays event . Reporter well, ashley the meeting of the rules committee has just gotten underway here and it will discuss some proposals to change the rules for the Republican Convention in cleveland in july. Some of these ideas have been floating out there and are controversial. Rnc chairman Reince Priebus any major rules changes will be tabled until the next meeting of the rules committee which will be the week before the Convention Begins in cleveland in july. He says the environment is toolyallycharged to move forward with any of these politicallycharged. There could be fireworks in the meeting as members try to make their positions known ahead of the convention. That has gotten the candidate attention, we had ted cruz and john kasich got off the campaign trail to come down here and personally meet with and lobby rules Committee Members and other Party Leadership and donald trump is not out of the game either. He sent his top political strategist, Paul Manafort down here to lobby and meet with a lot of these republican bigwigs. He will be making a presentation to some of them later this afternoon after the rules committee is, wraps up his work here in florida for today. Ashley . Ashley all sorts of maneuvering going on, peter barnes tracking it every way. Peter, thank you very much. Cruz and trump campaigns taking quite different positions on the nomination process. What is clear today is that we are headed to a contested convention. Nobody is able to reach 1237. Im not going to reach 1237 and donald trump is not going to reach 1237. It is a rigged, crooked system thats designed so that the bosses can pick whoever they want, and that people like me cant run. It is a rigged system. It is rigged for lobbyists. It is rigged for donors and rigged for the special interests. It is dishonest. Ashley i think he believes its rigged but trump seems ready to play that system now. Hiring a new political director. He will play the game. Rick wiley hosting a series of private meetings in florida hoping to clear the path to a trump victory. All right here to discuss it, joining me now, republican strategist ford oconnell, and democratic strategist matthew littman. Thank you both for being here. Ford, let me begin with you. I would imagine it seems like the rnc under a lot of pressure right now but if they start changing any rules then it really does feel like its rigged. That is the perception, ashley, that is absolutely correct. This is the big thing under discussion for the 55 rules committee. Will they go by u. S. House rules that govern convention or roberts rules. It is lot of minutia. If you go by the u. S. House rules, current easier in place, easier for white knight candidate to get in here. If im cruz or trump i want to go by roberts rules. That will be big question not right now in hollywood but will be discussed in cleveland a week before the convention. Ashley matthew, what is your take in all the process . Should the process be more transparent around perhaps simplified a little bit . Here is what i wish i wish they would get rid of primaries all together. I dont need to make decision, i rather parties pick candidates to go to the general election. This process is so timeconsuming there is so much money involved. Im not sure there is real benefit to voters actually going through this you will say this, if trump is close to the 1237 does seems to me if he has to get that nomination. Does seem like, i see cruz saying otherwise, he is either going to get there or be pretty close to it. Ashley, here is the great irony, trump keeps screaming it is rigged, it is rigged in his favor, he has gotten 38 of the votes and 46 of the delegates. He doesnt like democracy is power, exercised through direct or indirect representation. That is the part trump actually has a good point on. It is democratic, not undemocrattic. Itbe more democratic. That is something we need to pursue on republican side going forward. Ashley matthew, quickly change topics. I want to get to next tuesday, super tuesday iii i guess it is. We have five states, the i95 corridor states if you like. Is this doordie from Bernie Sanders . I heard language from the campaign well, well take a step back after next tuesday and look at big picture. That seems like language well start making our move out of the race . So they should have already been doing that to answer your question, ashley. After new york there is really no path to victory for Bernie Sanders. Now they will look what happens next tuesday. Bernie sanders would have to win something like0 of the 70 of the vote next tuesday to get toward where hillary is. That is not going to happen. They need to think about now what kind of legacy the Sanders Campaign wants to leave. Ashley talking about people that should stay in or get out, what about john kasich. He is hanging on for dear life. Maybe on third or fourth ballot he could be havent all nominee. Is that pieinthesky thinking . Only real argument john kasich has he is doing better in headtohead polls in match up with hillary clinton. If john kasich hang his head on that, why cant marco rubio won more delegates and states, better than kasich particularly in all important state of florida . John kasich is on lifeline. The good thing, ted cruz is mathematically eliminated as well on first ballot. Can i say this . Ashley go ahead, matthew. Go ahead. If your backup plan is ted cruz youre in a lot of trouble. The great thing is, matt, that i want Bernie Sanders to stay in there, one thing he is actually done he is made the Democratic Base hostile to hillary clinton. As long as her negatives go up the better off i am in november. Ashley we could go actually, ford makes a good point. Bernie staying in the race he is attacking hillary all the time. Yet in the polls we do see hillary is trouncing trump by double digits. Ashley many days 270 electoral votes. Ashley so much to talk about. Thank you so much, ford and matthew, for joining us this afternoon. Coming up, former president ial ron paul is here. He battled Republican Party four years ago at the convention, he says donald trump is right. The system is rigged. So what advice does he have for the donald . Singersongwriter prince, dead at age of 57. Mtv vijay and host of kennedy on fox business will be here to talk next about prince. These guys represent blood cells. 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We have no cause of death but celebrity tribute pouring in. Latoya jackson, so sorryhear about prince. Well love your music forever and ever. From leann rimes, oh, my god im so heartbroken. Tell me it isnt true prince is gone. Patricia arquette sending love out to prince. Thank you for all you gave us. Legendary former former mtvvj, host of kennedy here on the Fox Business Network, kennedy. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for being here. Did you know prince . I met him one time. He was dating a friend of mine. Ashley your reaction to this news . I was really devastated. I was really heartbroken, put it up there, finding out when mca from the beesty boys died and david bowie. Sad we lose david bowie and prince in the same year. You know the kind of muse genius spans generations whose influence is felt so deeply by artists that you know, you and i know and love. Ashley yeah. The fact that theyre gone and the music stops today and now becomes history, its stun any but i guess the one positive aspect it allows you, this reflective time to look back on a life and a career that was often times misunderstood. This is person who taught himself how to play guitar, piano and drums. Ashley he was brilliant. Starting at age seven. Selftaught and played all instruments on his first five albums. Incredibly prolific artist. Just about an album a year he put out where you know, think about it, most artists wait two or three years. Ashley 39 albums in 35 years. Amazing he has been around for 35. He had a bit of mystique. He went as a symbol instead of his name with the dispute for the Warner Brothers label. He pushed boundaries many ways, socially, politically, and certainly musically. It was funk, it was pop, it was rock. He was right up to the very end was trying new things. He was trying new things. Trying new things at time a lot of cultural warriors were trying to keep those performances down he was very sexy performer. He talked about sex very openly. And that was thing that it was so forbidden in some genres. He was like, you know what i will talk about this, will sing about it. Had explicit lyrics and song titles. At end of his life became very conservative and very religious. So the pendulum certainly swung for him musically and professionally and personally. Ashley it is interesting. Because he was born in minnesota, minneapolis. Stayed there his entire life. He didnt, you know, go off and live in l. A. Or come here to new york. He stayed. He was very loyal to minnesota. He came out of the minneapolis music scene and remained loyal throughout his life. He did, absolutely. You know i think that is testament to his shyness and testament to his oddness which i think one of great things about him. Ashley sure it was. The fact that he was so personally eccentrics made i am so difficult to define. That made you over and over again to the music trying to glimpse who he was as a person. Ashley a huge loss for the Music Industry. As you say he was terrifically influential for some other people and helped so many other people. Producing for them, writing songs, promoting people who can thank him for his career. He won a grammy for the chaka khan hit, i feel for you. People think that was chalka khan, prince wrote that. Shin made oconnor. Ashley another classic song. Kennedy thank you very much for being here. Dont forget kennedy will have a live special 8 00 p. M. Eastern right here on fox business on the life and death of prince. You do not want to miss that, kennedy, thank you. Coming up former president ial candidate ron paul will be here. He battled the Republican Party four years ago at the convention. 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