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Artists including Beyonc\u00e9, Lauryn Hill and Tyler The Creator paid tribute to neo-soul icon D\u2019Angelo, dead at 51<\/p>\n
Pioneering R&B and neo-soul artist D\u2019Angelo has died aged 51 following a battle with cancer. His family confirmed the news in a statement describing the musician, born Michael Eugene Archer, as leaving behind \u201ca legacy of extraordinarily moving music\u201d and urged fans to celebrate \u201cthe gift of song that he has left for the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of his generation, D\u2019Angelo helped define the neo-soul movement by blending R&B, hip-hop, funk and jazz.<\/p>\n He released three acclaimed albums: Brown Sugar in 1995, Voodoo in 2000 and Black Messiah in 2014, winning four Grammy Awards across his career. His single Untitled (How Does It Feel) became one of the defining tracks of modern R&B.<\/p>\n Tributes poured in from across the music industry. Beyonc\u00e9 wrote, \u201cYou were the pioneer of neo-soul and that changed and transformed rhythm & blues forever. We will never forget you.\u201d Lauryn Hill said, \u201cYou imagined a unity of strength and sensitivity in Black manhood to a generation that only saw itself as having to be one or the other.\u201d<\/p>\n Jill Scott expressed her grief, writing, \u201cI never met D\u2019Angelo but I love him, respect him, admire his gift. This loss hurts.\u201d Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea called him \u201cone of my all-time favourites\u2026 he changed the course of popular music.\u201d Tyler\u00a0The Creator described Voodoo as a life-changing record, calling D\u2019Angelo \u201ca savant\u2026 a true alien.\u201d<\/p>\n Nile Rodgers, Jamie Foxx and The Roots\u2019 lead MC also shared memories of working with or being inspired by him.<\/p>\n D\u2019Angelo is survived by his three children \u2014 Michael, Morocco and Imani. His former partner and fellow soul singer Angie Stone died earlier this year aged 63.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source tribune.com.pk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Artists including Beyonc\u00e9, Lauryn Hill and Tyler The Creator paid tribute to neo-soul icon D\u2019Angelo, dead at 51 Pioneering R&B and neo-soul artist D\u2019Angelo has died aged 51 following a battle with cancer. His family confirmed the news in a statement describing the musician, born Michael Eugene Archer, as leaving behind \u201ca legacy of extraordinarily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2092475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[394739,21741],"class_list":["post-2092474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-celebrity-scandals-gossip","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Celebrities-honour-DAngelo-Grammy-winning-Voodoo-creator-dead-at-51.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092474","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=2092474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092476,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092474\/revisions\/2092476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2092475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}