D\u2019Angelo, the soul and R&B singer who kicked off music\u2019s neo-soul movement with virtuosic, sensual and spiritually searching albums like \u201cBrown Sugar\u201d and \u201cVoodoo,\u201d has died at 51. <\/p>\n
In a statement to Variety, the singer\u2019s family said that \u201cThe shining star of our family has dimmed his light for us in this life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter a prolonged and courageous battle with cancer, we are heartbroken to announce that Michael D\u2019Angelo Archer, known to his fans around the world as D\u2019Angelo, has been called home, departing this life today, October 14th, 2025,\u201d they continued. \u201cWe are saddened that he can only leave dear memories with his family, but we are eternally grateful for the legacy of extraordinarily moving music he leaves behind. We ask that you respect our privacy during this difficult time but invite you all join us in mourning his passing while also celebrating the gift of song that he has left for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
D\u2019Angelo won four Grammys and was nominated for a total of 14, taking home an R&B album trophy in 2016 for \u201cBlack Messiah,\u201d plus R&B song honors for \u201cReally Love.\u201d Previously he won the R&B album Grammy for \u201cVoodoo\u201d with his song \u201cUntitled (How Does It Feel)\u201d taking home the 2001 award for male R&B vocal performance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"D\u2019Angelo, the soul and R&B singer who kicked off music\u2019s neo-soul movement with virtuosic, sensual and spiritually searching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,3702,3709,3698,541,3708,241,278,3700,3706,3699,3704,3701,3707,3705,3703],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-brown-sugar","tag-courageous-battle","tag-dangelo","tag-family","tag-grammy-winning-singer","tag-life","tag-music","tag-neo-soul-movement","tag-rb-album-trophy","tag-rb-singer","tag-song","tag-soul-singer","tag-variety","tag-voodoo","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}