Legendary soul and R&B singer D'Angelo left behind three youngsters when he died at age 51 in October 2025.
A spokesperson for the four-time Grammy Award winner (actual identify Michael Eugene Archer) confirmed to Us Weekly that he was privately battling pancreatic most cancers on the time of his dying.
“The shining star of our household has dimmed his gentle for us on this life,” the household spokesperson informed Us in an announcement. “After a chronic and brave battle with most cancers, we're heartbroken to announce that Michael D'Angelo Archer, recognized to his followers all over the world as D'Angelo, has been known as house, departing this life at present, October 14th, 2025.”
The assertion concluded, “We're saddened that he can solely depart expensive reminiscences along with his household, however we're eternally grateful for the legacy of terribly shifting music he leaves behind. We ask that you simply respect our privateness throughout this troublesome time however invite you all to hitch us in mourning his passing whereas additionally celebrating the reward of tune that he has left for the world.”
D'Angelo was well-known for valuing his privateness, but it surely was public data that he had three youngsters, together with a son, Michael, from his four-year relationship with the late soul singer Angie Stone. (Stone was killed at age 63 in a automobile accident in Montgomery, Alabama, in March 2025, mere months earlier than D'Angelo's dying from most cancers.)
Hold scrolling for extra details about the late D'Angelo's household.
Angie Stone
Stone dated D'Angelo within the Nineties, serving because the muse for his groundbreaking 1995 soul album, Brown Sugar. Their lives continued to be personally and professionally intertwined all through the late ‘90s when he cowrote tracks for her 1999 debut album, Black Diamond.
Their son Michael was born in 1997, although the R&B couple in the end known as it quits in 1999. Stone went on to have a massively profitable profession, incomes three Grammy nominations, earlier than she died in a automobile crash at age 63 in March 2025.
“Angie Stone's voice and spirit will dwell on endlessly within the hearts of these she touched,” her spokesperson stated on the time.
D'Angelo and Stone's son Michael penned a heartfelt tribute to his mom, writing via Instagram: “I do know you up there having fun with your god physique 😂 I hope you bought to see grandma and granddaddy …….i would like you know the way proud I'm on the particular person you might be…. I would like you to know the way a lot you impressed me each single day …… you by no means failed me ever ever….you by no means have been a burden to me EVER …”
“If I needed to do all of it once more I wouldn't change nothing….im so grateful for the teachings that I realized from you, I hope to someday be nearly as good to my children as you have been to me…..I simply wished to you to know that I acquired it from right here , imma be okay,” Michael concluded.
Michael Archer
Michael, who was born in 1997, was D'Angelo and Stone's solely youngster collectively. He continued each of his mother and father' musical legacies by performing beneath the identify Swayvo Twain.
In March 2025, Michael admitted he'd tried to “to separate [himself] from [his] mother and father” as he launched his personal profession.
“It at all times felt like I used to be fated to be of their shadows endlessly,” he wrote via Instagram. “However fortunately, lengthy earlier than momma, left I realized to embrace them and their legacy full on.”
Michael mirrored on the heartbreaking expertise of dropping each of his mother and father in the identical 12 months following D'Angelo's dying in October 2025.
“I'm grateful in your ideas and prayers throughout these very troublesome instances, because it has been a really tough and unhappy 12 months for me,” Michael informed Folks in an announcement. “I ask that you simply please proceed to maintain me in your ideas because it won't be straightforward, however one factor that each my mother and father taught me was to be sturdy, and I intend to just do that.”
Imani Archer
Imani was born in 1999, although her mom's id has been saved personal. Like her father and older half-brother, Imani is a musician.
“I used to be born in Los Angeles however I moved across the east coast till I used to be about 13 years previous. The place I lived within the longest was Kissimmee, Florida,” she informed Bold Journey in November 2024. “Transferring to LA was such a tradition shock at that age, however I knew I used to be in the correct place for my music profession to blossom.”
Having began making music at age 16, Imani acknowledged experiencing an extended means of “growing [her] sound, discovering [her] voice, and studying how you can write songs.”
“It's been a studying curve,” she stated in 2024. “I really feel like now I'm in a spot the place I'm assured in my artistry and am so excited to share it with extra of the world!”
Following her father's dying in October 2025, Imani shared a classic picture of D'Angelo enjoying a guitar at her facet. Imani captioned the picture with three “mended coronary heart” emojis.
Morocco Archer
Little is understood about D'Angelo's youthful son, as Morocco has chosen to dwell his life outdoors of the highlight.
