{"id":2090853,"date":"2025-10-14T17:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2090853"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:57:12","slug":"celebrated-soul-musician-dangelo-dead-at-51-us-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/celebrated-soul-musician-dangelo-dead-at-51-us-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrated soul musician D&#8217;Angelo dead at 51: US media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Celebrated soul musician D&#8217;Angelo has died at the age of 51 after battling pancreatic cancer, several US media outlets reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The shining star of our family has dimmed his light for us in this life&#8230; After a prolonged and courageous battle with cancer, we are heartbroken to announce that Michael D&#8217;Angelo Archer,\u00a0known to his fans around the world as D&#8217;Angelo, has been called home,&#8221; his family said in a statement to Variety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">D&#8217;Angelo was an acclaimed R&amp;B singer and won plaudits for albums including his 1995 debut &#8220;Brown Sugar&#8221; and &#8220;Voodoo,&#8221; released in 2000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Such a sad loss to the passing of D&#8217;angelo. We have so many great times. Gonna miss you so much. Sleep Peacefully D&#8217; Love You KING,&#8221; DJ Premier wrote on X in tribute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">D&#8217;Angelo and DJ Premier collaborated on the 1998 single &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Pie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The musician&#8217;s passing was reported by People magazine and TMZ, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Music industry bible Pitchfork credited D&#8217;Angelo with helping to &#8220;define the neo-soul movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Born in Virginia, D&#8217;Angelo was something of a recluse and only periodically surfaced to release music, most of which was received favorably by fans and critics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In 2016, he featured on a playlist used by former US president Barack Obama, alongside other musical greats like pop superstar Janet Jackson, soul singer Janelle Monae and blues rocker Gary Clark Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">gw\/aha<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated soul musician D&#8217;Angelo has died at the age of 51 after battling pancreatic cancer, several US media outlets reported Tuesday. &#8220;The shining star of our family has dimmed his light for us in this life&#8230; After a prolonged and courageous battle with cancer, we are heartbroken to announce that Michael D&#8217;Angelo Archer,\u00a0known to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2090854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[394252,394287,394286,385751,394288],"class_list":["post-2090853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-brown-sugar","tag-dangelo-2","tag-michael-dangelo-archer-2","tag-soul-singer","tag-won-plaudits"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Celebrated-soul-musician-DAngelo-dead-at-51-US-media.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090855,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090853\/revisions\/2090855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2090854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}