D'Angelo's Black Messiah project, his first album in 15 years, was inspired by the current state of race relations in the United States. With the amount of high-profile police brutality and racially motivated cases in the United States, including the horrific shooting that took place at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina that took place earlier this week, D'Angelo felt it was time for h
Last December, D'Angelo shocked the world by dropping Black Messiah, his first record in nearly 15 years. It's an engrossing, staggering effort, full of lush vocal tracks and expert instrumentation courtesy of D himself and of his band, The Vanguard...
D'Angelo and the Vanguard will be hitting the road this June for The Second Coming Tour in support of their 2014 Black Messiah album. The tour kicks off June 7 at the Fox Theater in Oakland and wraps up June 28 at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, N...
While most of the music world was out in Los Angeles for the Grammys, D'Angelo played to a sold out crowd at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater. After running through songs from his catalog, D'Angelo closed the show with a 14-minute rendition of his classic song, "Untitled (How Does It Feel)," from his album Voodoo
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The second coming of D'Angelo is here. It is still almost hard to believe. The Virginia crooner who ended his 14-year hiatus last December with his new album Black Messiah was the special music guest on last night's episode of Saturday Night Live...
Now that D'Angelo has gotten new material out to the masses via his new LP Black Messiah, it's time to see if he can return to the level of prominence he once had. The campaign will start with the Virginia crooner's first ever headlining show at the Apollo Theater...