An Oral History Of D'Angelo

Born Michael Eugene Archer, D’Angelo is one of the true enigmas of modern music. In an attempt to shed some light on both D’Angelo the artist and Michael Archer the man, I embarked on a quest to talk to his friends, collaborators, and critics about a creator who made sense of a pre-Y2K world by channeling funk and feelings into timeless music, despite never quite learning to make sense of himself.

An Oral History Of D'Angelo