D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer who garnered mainstream attention with the shirtless Untitled (How Does It Feel) music video, has died. He was 51.
The singer, whose real name was Michael Eugene Archer, died on Tuesday, according to a statement from his family.
They confirmed in the statement that he died after a diagnosis of cancer.
His family called him a “shining star of our family and has dimmed his light for us in this life”, adding that they are “eternally grateful for the legacy of extraordinarily moving music he leaves behind”.
In his music, raspy-voiced D’Angelo blended hip-hop grit, emphatic soul and gospel-rooted emotion into a so
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