Hip-hop artist Reuben Vincent has officially announced his long-awaited album Welcome Home, arriving October 24 via Roc Nation Distribution and Jamla Records. Executive produced by 9th Wonder, the ...

When Michael Eugene Archer was three years old, his older brother Luther came home to find him almost perfectly playing a Prince song on the piano. As Luther later told Okayplayer: "It was the first ...

Sometimes life’s breath catches in time’s throat. Those fortunate enough to float inside one of these moments, with the air still and humming, don’t soon forget it. Religious folks have words for such ...

D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer and musician who helped usher in the neo-soul movement, died Tuesday after a private battle with cancer, his family announced. He was 51. “The shining star of ...

Class is in session—and Solange Knowles is taking charge. The Grammy-winning musician has officially launched a three-year-long residency at USC’s Thornton School of Music as its first all-school ...

Fellow musicians Beyoncé, Nile Rogers and Lauryn Hill were among those paying their respects to D'Angelo [Frans Schellekens/Redferns] Tributes have flooded in for the R&B and soul singer D’Angelo, who ...

Class is in session—and Solange Knowles is taking charge. The Grammy-winning musician has officially launched a three-year-long residency at USC’s Thornton School of Music as its first all-school ...

Michael Eugene Archer was an artistic savant. He was a musical prodigy from Richmond, Virginia, who morphed into the culture’s beloved, soulful D’Angelo, the star we now mourn. As Michael, the church ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. When I was a kid, living in Lawrenceville, Virginia, I heard tales about how the James River was haunted: perhaps by the spirits of Indigenous people who were ...

D’Angelo’s star rose after he dropped the video for “Untiled.” But the introvert, who was all about his music, wasn’t ready to embrace his sex symbol status. With his 1995 debut album, “Brown Sugar,” ...

D’Angelo, that Pentecostal preacher’s son, the man Robert Christgau called ‘R&B Jesus’, has died, and, with him, a way of seeing and interpreting the world has been withdrawn. Every one of his records ...