Complete List Of D'Angelo Songs From A to Z

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D’Angelo was born Michael Eugene Archer in Richmond, Virginia, where gospel music became the foundation of his musical life. His father was a Pentecostal minister, and D’Angelo learned piano by ear while playing in church. As a teenager, he developed his songwriting and performance skills before winning Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater three consecutive times.

His first major industry breakthrough came through Black Men United’s 1994 recording “U Will Know,” which he co-wrote and co-produced. The following year, Brown Sugar introduced his own voice through the title track, “Lady,” “Cruisin’,” “Me and Those Dreamin’ Eyes of Mine,” and a collection of songs that joined gospel harmony, jazz, funk, hip-hop, and classic soul without sounding bound to any earlier era.

Voodoo arrived in 2000 after years of sessions with musicians connected to the Soulquarians collective. Its loose rhythmic feel, layered vocals, and live instrumentation gave songs such as “Devil’s Pie,” “Left & Right,” “Send It On,” “The Root,” and “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” a sound that remained deeply influential. The album reached number one on the Billboard 200 and earned Grammy Awards for Best R&B Album and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.

The attention surrounding “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” also changed the way D’Angelo was perceived in public, often shifting discussion away from his musicianship and toward his image. Personal struggles and a retreat from the spotlight followed, although he continued contributing to recordings by artists including Common, Raphael Saadiq, Snoop Dogg, Roy Hargrove, Q-Tip, Mark Ronson, and J Dilla.

D’Angelo returned in December 2014 with Black Messiah, credited to D’Angelo and the Vanguard. The album brought funk, rock, gospel, protest music, and densely arranged soul together in songs including “Ain’t That Easy,” “The Charade,” “Really Love,” “Prayer,” and “Another Life.” It won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album, while “Really Love” won Best R&B Song.

Later recordings included “Unshaken” from Red Dead Redemption 2, Rapsody’s “Ibtihaj,” and the 2024 collaboration “I Want You Forever” with Jeymes Samuel and Jay-Z. These releases extended a catalog that was small in volume but unusually broad in influence, reaching musicians working in soul, hip-hop, jazz, rock, gospel, and alternative R&B.

D’Angelo died on October 14, 2025, at age fifty-one after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Musicians and listeners across generations responded with tributes to his voice, instrumental ability, studio vision, and refusal to separate the spiritual, sensual, political, and experimental sides of Black music.

In the months after his death, Questlove said work was moving forward on a posthumous album drawn from material D’Angelo had been developing. Whatever form that music eventually takes, Brown Sugar, Voodoo, Black Messiah, and his carefully chosen collaborations already form one of the most consequential bodies of work in modern soul.

Complete List Of D’Angelo Songs From A to Z

A–E

1000 Deaths – Black Messiah – 2014
Africa – Voodoo – 2000
Ain’t Nobody Home (B.B. King featuring D’Angelo) – Deuces Wild – 1997
Ain’t That Easy – Black Messiah – 2014
Alright – Brown Sugar – 1995
Another Life – Black Messiah – 2014
Back to the Future (Part I) – Black Messiah – 2014
Back to the Future (Part II) – Black Messiah – 2014
Be Here (Raphael Saadiq featuring D’Angelo) – Instant Vintage – 2002
Believe (Q-Tip featuring D’Angelo) – The Renaissance – 2008
Betray My Heart – Black Messiah – 2014
Break Ups 2 Make Ups (Method Man featuring D’Angelo) – Tical 2000: Judgement Day – 1998
Brown Sugar – Brown Sugar – 1995
Bullshit (The RH Factor featuring D’Angelo) – Distractions – 2006
Caravan (The Roots and D’Angelo) – Red Hot + Indigo – 2000
The Charade – Black Messiah – 2014
Chicken Grease – Voodoo – 2000
Cold World (Remix) (GZA featuring Inspectah Deck and D’Angelo) – Non-album single – 1996
Cruisin’ – Brown Sugar – 1995
Devil’s Pie – Belly (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) / Voodoo – 1998/2000
The Door – Black Messiah – 2014
Everybody Loves the Sunshine – Untitled (How Does It Feel) single – 2000

F–J

Feel Like Makin’ Love – Voodoo – 2000
Geto Heaven Part Two (Common featuring D’Angelo) – Like Water for Chocolate – 2000
Girl You Need a Change of Mind – Get on the Bus (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – 1996
Glass Mountain Trust (Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. featuring D’Angelo) – Record Collection – 2010
Greatdayndamornin’/Booty – Voodoo – 2000
Heaven Must Be Like This – Down in the Delta OST / Live at the Jazz Cafe – 1999
Higher – Brown Sugar – 1995
The Hypnotic (The Roots featuring D’Angelo) – Illadelph Halflife – 1996
I Found My Smile Again – Space Jam OST – 1996
I’ll Stay (The RH Factor featuring D’Angelo) – Hard Groove – 2003
I Want You Forever (Jeymes Samuel, Jay-Z and D’Angelo) – The Book of Clarence (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – 2024
Ibtihaj (Rapsody featuring D’Angelo and GZA) – Eve – 2019
Imagine (Snoop Dogg featuring Dr. Dre and D’Angelo) – Tha Blue Carpet Treatment – 2006
Jonz in My Bonz – Brown Sugar – 1995

K–O

Lady – Brown Sugar – 1995
Left & Right – Voodoo – 2000
The Line – Voodoo – 2000
Me and Those Dreamin’ Eyes of Mine – Brown Sugar – 1995
Nothing Even Matters (Lauryn Hill featuring D’Angelo) – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – 1998
The ‘Notic (The Roots featuring D’Angelo) – Men in Black: The Album – 1997
One Mo’gin – Voodoo – 2000
Overjoyed (The Boys Choir of Harlem with D’Angelo) – The Sound of Hope – 1994

P–T

Playa Playa – Voodoo – 2000
Prayer – Black Messiah – 2014
Really Love – Black Messiah – 2014
The Root – Voodoo – 2000
Send It On – Voodoo – 2000
She’s Always in My Hair – Scream 2 OST – 1997
Shit, Damn, Motherfucker – Brown Sugar – 1995
Sing a Simple Song (Sly & The Family Stone, Chuck D, Isaac Hayes and D’Angelo) – Different Strokes by Different Folks – 2006
Smooth – Brown Sugar – 1995
So Far to Go (J Dilla featuring Common and D’Angelo) – The Shining – 2006
So Far to Go (Common featuring D’Angelo) – Finding Forever – 2007
Spanish Joint – Voodoo – 2000
Sugah Daddy – Black Messiah – 2014
Talk Shit 2 Ya – Baby Boy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – 2001
Tell Me (Slum Village featuring D’Angelo) – Fan-Tas-Tic, Vol. 2 – 2000
Till It’s Done (Tutu) – Black Messiah – 2014

U–Z

U Will Know – Jason’s Lyric OST – 1994
Unshaken – The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2: OST – 2018
Untitled (How Does It Feel) – Voodoo – 2000
Water No Get Enemy (with Femi Kuti, Macy Gray, Roy Hargrove, Nile Rodgers, The Soultronics and Positive Force) – Red Hot + Riot – 2002
When We Get By – Brown Sugar – 1995
Your Precious Love – High School High OST – 1996