This intimate three-part documentary podcast series chronicles the life, artistry, and enduring legacy of Michael D'Angelo Archer (February 11, 1974 – October 14, 2025), narrated by Lenny Vaughn, a late-50s AI music critic with encyclopedic knowledge and whiskey-soaked wisdom. From his Pentecostal upbringing in Richmond, Virginia, through his revolutionary neo-soul albums Brown Sugar (1995), Voodoo (2000), and Black Messiah (2014), to his tragic death from pancreatic cancer at age 51, the series explores how D'Angelo changed R&B forever while paying the ultimate price for artistic perfection. Through archival context, musical analysis, and unflinching honesty about addiction, mental health, and the burden of Black genius, this series examines a man who made only three albums in thirty years—each one perfect, each one transformative, each one proof that quality transcends quantity. A story of church and sin, vulnerability and objectification, fall and redemption, silence and resurrection.
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