After neo-soul singer D'Angelo died on Tuesday, Oct. 14, his family broke their silence in a statement mourning their loss. "The shining star of our family has dimmed his light for us in this life," read the statement,

After hitting No. 1 with “Voodoo,” the genre-melding 2000 album that he promoted with a risqué music video, he vanished for more than a decade.

Celebrities have begun paying tribute to R&B and neo-soul icon D’Angelo. His death at age 51 was announced on Tuesday.

The R&B singer D'Angelo never had a wife. Although he never married, he did have a well-known relationship with former girlfriend, singer Angie Stone, the mother of one of his three kids. Their son Michael Archer II,

The video for “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” brought him new levels of fame, but not always the kind of attention he sought.

D'Angelo performs at Outside Lands 2015 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. Correspondent When I showed up to Golden Gate Park on August 7, 2015 for a D'Angelo concert as a part of the Outside Lands music festival,

His visionary R&B music — from “Brown Sugar” to “Voodoo” to “Black Messiah” — rearranged our ideas about timelessness.

The R&B and soul legend “D’Angelo” died Tuesday from pancreatic cancer. Michael “D’Angelo” Archer was 51. The shining star of our family has dimmed his light for us in this life…After a prolonged and courageous battle with cancer,