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<\/p>\nThe singer, whose real name was Michael Eugene Archer, died on Tuesday, according to a statement from his family.<\/p>\n
They confirmed in the statement that he died after a diagnosis of cancer.<\/p>\n
His family called him a \u201cshining star of our family and has dimmed his light for us in this life\u201d, adding that they are \u201ceternally grateful for the legacy of extraordinarily moving music he leaves behind\u201d.<\/p>\n
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D\u2019Angelo at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans (Cheryl Gerber\/Invision\/AP)<\/p>\n
In his music, raspy-voiced D\u2019Angelo blended hip-hop grit, emphatic soul and gospel-rooted emotion into a sound that helped spearhead the neo-soul movement of the 1990s.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, D\u2019Angelo, from Virginia celebrated the 30th anniversary of his debut studio album Brown Sugar, a platinum-selling offering that produced signature hits such as Lady and the title track.<\/p>\n
The 1995 album earned him multiple Grammy nominations and cemented him as one of R&B\u2019s most original new voices.<\/p>\n
D\u2019Angelo\u2019s sultry vocal style \u2014 a mix of raspy texture and church-bred fluidity \u2014 set him apart from his peers. That voice became inseparable from the striking visuals of his 2000 single Untitled (How Does It Feel).<\/p>\n
The minimalist, shirtless music video became a cultural touchstone, igniting conversations around artistry, sexuality and vulnerability in black male representation.<\/p>\n
The song earned him a Grammy for best male R&B vocal performance and propelled his album Voodoo to top the Billboard 200 chart and winning the Grammy for best R&&B album.<\/p>\n
D\u2019Angelo duetted with Lauryn Hill on the soulful ballad Nothing Even Matters, a highlight of her landmark 1998 album The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill.<\/p>\n
He also contributed to The Roots\u2019 1996 album Illadelph Halflife and was part of the supergroup Black Men United, which yielded one song: U Will Know, which D\u2019Angelo wrote and co-produced, for the film Jason\u2019s Lyric in 1994.<\/p>\n
D\u2019Angelo\u2019s partner was Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone. They met while he was finishing Brown Sugar. Stone worked on the album with D\u2019Angelo and the two co-wrote the song Everyday for her 1999 debut album, Black Diamond.<\/p>\n
Stone described D\u2019Angelo as her \u201cmusical soulmate\u201d, to The Associated Press in 1999, adding that their working relationship was \u201clike milk and cereal \u2026 Musically, it was magic. It\u2019s something that I have not been able to do with any other producer or musician\u201d.<\/p>\n
They had a son together, the artist Swayvo Twain, born Michael Archer Jr.<\/p>\n
Stone died earlier this year in a car crash. She was 63.<\/p>\n
D\u2019Angelo also has a daughter, Imani Archer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The singer, whose real name was Michael Eugene Archer, died on Tuesday, according to a statement from his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-80864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}