When Doves Cry: Prince's life, in photos

The superstar singer-songwriter Prince has died at the age of 57. While tributes pile up outside his Minnesota home and online, here's a look at his life, in pictures.

Prince Rogers Nelson was born on June 7, 1958.

The Minneapolis native was perhaps best known for his hits Purple Rain, Kiss, Little Red Corvette, Raspberry Beret and If I Was Your Girlfriend, among many others.

Here is Prince at the 2015 American Music Awards last November and at the Grammys in February.

Prince had a Canadian connection.

Prince's second wife, Manuela Testolini, is from Toronto and the couple once called the city home. During that period Prince recorded part of the album Musicology in Mississauga (the back of its CD jacket features the artist posing in front of the Toronto skyline) and the couple were sometimes spotted at Raptors games, like this one in 2002.

In 2007, he put on one of the greatest Super Bowl halftime shows.

Prince performed in Florida during Super Bowl XLI (between the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears), and despite a downpour put on what fans — and the NFL — regard as one of the best halftime performances ever.

In 2004 he rocked with Beyoncé and entered the Hall of Fame.

Prince's hit When Doves Cry spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard chart in 1984. He introduced himself to a new generation of fans with his 2004 Grammy Awards performance with Beyoncé. He was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that year.

The Artist Formerly Known as … won the rights to his music.

Prince was fiercely protective of his music and became embroiled in a dispute with the Warner Bros. record label over the rights to his records from 1978 to the mid-1990s, including Purple Rain and 1999. The dispute was settled in 2014 with Prince winning the rights to his music, but during that period, Prince famously dropped his name in place of a symbol in protest. 

He's also won an Oscar.

Along with seven Grammy wins over his career, Prince won an Oscar for the film score for Purple Rain, a Golden Globe for the title song to 2006's Happy Feet and a raft of other music industry honours. 

He had been set to publish a memoir entitled The Beautiful Ones in fall 2017.

This is a shot of the singer in January 1985 performing in Cincinnati during his Purple Rain tour.