Famous soul and R & B singer D’angelo Left behind three children when he died aged 51 in October 2025.
Spokesperson for the four-time Grammy award winner (real name Michael Eugene Archer) confirmed US of the Week That he was secretly battling pancreatic cancer at the time of his death.
“The shining star of our family has lost its light in this life,” said a family spokesperson We in the statement. “After a long and courageous battle with cancer, we are saddened to announce that Michael D’Angelo, known around the world by his fans, left home, came home, today
The statement concluded, “We are saddened that he can only leave behind fond memories with his family, but forever we have the opportunity for the moving music you walk through this difficult time but we have helped all the gift of song he left to the world.”
D’Angelo was known to value his privacy, but it was public knowledge that he had three children, including a son, Michael, from his year-long relationship with the singer of four years Angie Stone. (Stone was killed at age 63 in a car accident in Montgomery, Alabama, in March 2025, just months before D’Angelo died of cancer.)
Keep scrolling for more information about D’Angelo’s family.
Angie Stone
Stone Dated D’Angelo in the 1990s, serving as a muse for his epic 1995 Soul Album, Brown sugar. Their lives continued to meet each other and were well integrated in all the possibilities of the 90’s when he recorded his 1999 album. A black diamond.
Their son Michael was born in 1997, although the R & B couple finally called it 1999. Stone went on to have a very successful career, before he died in a car accident aged 63 in March 2025.
“The voice and the spirit and the spirit of Angie’s stone will live forever in the hearts of those who touched it,” said a spokesman for Jehovah at the time.
D’Angelo and son Michael wrote a heartfelt tribute to his mother, writing on Instagram: “I know you appreciate your grandma 😂 I want you to always make me proud of her as a person……you have never failed me…
“If I had to do it all and I couldn’t change anything…
Michael Archer
Michael, born in 1997, was D’ Angelo’s and only child. He continued both in the footsteps of his parents by working under the name Swayvo Twain.
In March 2025, Michael admitted that he tried to “divorce [himself] from the [his] Parents “as he began his work.
“It’s always been like I deserved to be in their shadow forever,” he wrote on Instagram. “But thankfully, long before my mother, on the left I learned to hold them and their legacy is full.”
Michael experienced the heartbreaking loss of both his parents the following year following D’Angelo’s death in October 2025.
“Thank you for your thoughts and prayers during these very difficult times, because it has been a very difficult and sad year for me,” Michael said. People in the statement. “I’m asking that you please continue to keep me in your thoughts as it won’t be easy, but one thing both my parents taught me is to be strong, and I intend to do just that.”
Wait Archer
Imani was born in 1999, although her mother’s identity is kept secret. Like his father and former half-brother, Imani is a musician.
“I was born in Los Angeles but I lived on the east coast until I was 13. The place I lived the longest was Florida,” he told A brave journey November 2024. “Moving to La was such a culture shock at the time, but I knew I was in the right place for my music to blossom.”
Having started making music at the age of 16, Imani admitted that she experienced a long process of ‘development’ [her] Sound, Finding [her] Voice, and learning to write songs. “
“It’s been a learning curve,” he said in 2024. “I feel like I’m in a place where I have hope in my brain and I’m so excited to share it with the world!”
After his father’s death in October 2025, Imani shared a vintage photo of d’angeo playing guitar by his side. Imani captioned the photo with three “transformed” emojis.
Morocco Archer
Little is known as D’ Angelo’s youngest son, as Morocco has chosen to live his life outside the spotlight.
