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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soul legend D'Angelo has died after a private battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 51."The shining star of our family has dimmed ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. On October 14, the music industry lost a visionary when D’Angelo ...

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 ...

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, ...

For his next trick, Leon Thomas joins forces with Dylan Sinclair to update a seminal R&B classic as an Amazon Music Original. There is perhaps no song more foundational to the late-90s subgenre ...

*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.

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 ...