The late singer’s iconic music video for Untitled (How Does It Feel) had him unfairly pigeonholed for much of his career
Experimental, sensual and political, D’Angelo radically redrew the boundaries of soul music
‘The architect of Black Gen X sonic feeling and eloquence’: D’Angelo’s 10 greatest tracks
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he news of D’Angelo’s death following a privately handled pancreatic cancer diagnosis had shocked fans crying Shit, Damn, Motherfucker – a cult favorite from the 1995 Brown Sugar album that heralded the R&B singer as a force in the blossoming neo-soul movement. But the winking references on social media to that crash-out song, about a man who discovers his girl in bed with his best friend and lets rage take over, were soon crowded out by shirtless images of the four-time Grammy winner as tribute. It’s the last thing he’d want to be remembered for.
