News or R&B legend D’Angelo’s death spread quickly across the internet on Tuesday.

The 51 year old singer had been battling pancreatic cancer, according to TMZ.

His death would have been a difficult blow by itself, but fans were quick to point out, that the loss was so much greater because the singer and fellow R&B icon Angie Stone had a son together in 2010.

And Stone also tragically died this year in a crash on her way to a concert.

“My thoughts are with Michael Archer, who lost both his parents within months of each other,” one person wrote on X. “RIP Angie Stone, RIP D’Angelo.”

“Angie Stone and D’Angelo in the same damn year,” another person wrote. “A true loss for R&B/Soul Music.”

D’Angelo, whose real name was Michael Eugene Archer, and Stone dated in the 1990s.

His death comes

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