If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Shortly before his death, D’Angelo had just celebrated ...

On this day in 1995, the game shifted. Michael Eugene Archer, better known to the culture as D’Angelo, dropped Brown Sugar, his genre-defining debut album, and in doing so, laid the foundation for ...

Soul legend D’Angelo has died after privately battling pancreatic cancer. He was 51. The “Brown Sugar” crooner — born Michael Eugene Archer — had been undergoing “treatment for several months” when he ...

Few debut albums have shifted the direction of an entire genre the way Brown Sugar did. Thirty-one years ago today, D’Angelo introduced the world to a sound that blended classic soul, funk, jazz, ...

D’Angelo, the visionary singer and musician who blended R&B and soul in landmark albums such as “Brown Sugar” and “Voodoo,” mesmerizing critics and audiences even as he disappeared from public view ...

While speaking with hosts Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, the neo-soul singer detailed the moment she first encountered the late D’Angelo’s debut album Brown Sugar while working at Grinders, a ...

*I first met D’Angelo in 1995 at a record label’s offices here in Los Angeles. I was there for a meeting when music executive Kedar Massenburg, who managed the 21-year-old at the time, introduced us.

Neo-soul and R&B fans are in mourning — D’Angelo, the celebrated singer, songwriter, and producer who redefined modern soul, has died at 51, following a private battle with pancreatic cancer. As news ...

D'Angelo, the soul and R&B legend whose influence helped usher in the neo-soul movement of the 1990s, has died after a private battle with cancer. He was 51. The singer's family confirmed his death in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Grammy-winning singer earned four nods for Brown Sugar, which heralded the arrival of a new R&B and neo-soul star. It wasn't ...