HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — Grammy Award-winning R&B singer D’Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, TMZ reports. He was 51.
According to TMZ, D’Angelo, whose real name was Michael Eugene Archer, died Tuesday morning in NYC, sources close to his family and former manager Kedar Massenberg confirmed.
In 1995, D’Angelo’s debut studio album, “Brown Sugar,” went platinum, with critics noting that the album ushered in the neo-soul movement of the mid-to-late 1990s and early 2000s.
His next album, “Voodoo,” released in 2000, debuted at number one on the US Billboard Top 200. The album won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album at the 43rd Grammy Awards, and the single “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” won for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and was also nominated for Best R&B Song.
After more than a decade, D’Angelo released his third and final album, “Black Messiah,” in 2014, winning the Grammy for Best R&B Album. The song “Really Love” won Best R&B Song.
D’Angelo has never been married. He shares a son with singer Angie Stone, who died in March of this year, and he has two other children, a daughter and a son.
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