Michael Eugene Archer — known to the world as D’Angelo — one of the most enigmatic and transformative figures in modern R&B, has died in New York after a quiet battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 51.

Though he only had three studio albums, D’Angelo won four Grammys during his career. The singer was said to be working on what would have been his fourth studio album.

“An architect, musically and spiritually. I’m stumped on this one,” music critic Nicolas-Tyrell Scott wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter . “We haven’t just lost a person, we’ve lost a musician who put his all into the music.”

A Virginia Church Boy to Celebrated Neo-Soul Artist

D’Angelo was born on February 11, 1974, in Richmond and raised in nearby Petersburg.

The artist was the son of a minister and grew up immersed

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