Artists. Won 7 grammys and nominated for 32 and won an Academy Award for purple rain and inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame in 2004 and ranked as number 27 on the list of one hundred greatest artists of all time. As tributes continue to pour in, we are working to learn more about the moments leading up to his death. Tmz broke the news this morning and spokely after we spoke to harvey leven. It never made accepts that he had the flu and he made the Emergency Landing. It didnt make sense. He did two big shows in atlanta and did just fine and his voice was great and he was fine and all of a sudden an hour later he makes an Emergency Landing 48 minutes from the city that he lives in. Makes an Emergency Landing in illinois to be rushed to the hospital. We were told that he was in bad shape in the hospital and they felt he was released too early but his people wanted to get him home. Officials in his home state are investigating the exact cause of the singers death. Princes music car