D’Angelo—the neo-soul singer best known for hits including “Brown Sugar” and “Lady”—died in New York City on Tuesday, October 14, from pancreatic cancer. “He was in hospice for two weeks but had been in the hospital for months,” a source told People. He was 51.
Born Michael Eugene Archer in Richmond, Virginia, D’Angelo got his start at New York’s Apollo Theater in the early 1990s, finding success co-writing, producing, and composing the single “U Will Know” for the R&B supergroup Black Men United in 1994. D’Angelo released his debut studio album Brown Sugar in 1995, followed by his highly acclaimed sophomore effort Voodoo in 2000. Voodoo won a Grammy Award for best R&B album in 2001, with its third single, “Untitled (How Does It Feel),” also earning three nominations at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. D’Angelo’s third studio album, Black Messiah, came out in 2014, also taking home the best-R&B-album.
D’Angelo, who is survived by his three children, was working on his fourth album with singer-songwriter Raphael Saadiq at the time of his death. Tributes to the late artist have flooded social media since the news broke, particularly from his fellow musicians. Read a selection of them below.
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