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Last week, the soul music titan D’Angelo — a singer of startling and casual virtuosity who was an architect of what came to be known as neo-soul — died at 51.
He released three studio albums, each a striking shift at its time: “Brown Sugar,” in 1995, which synthesized hip-hop’s textures and rhythms with the power of ’60s and ’70s soul; “Voodoo,” in 2000, a thick funk and soul opus with an eye on Prince; and “Black Messiah,” from 2014, a long-gestating work that stared America’s political moment dead in the eye.
On this week’s Popcast, a conversation about D’Angelo’s too-brief career with a pair of journalists who each interviewed him twice.
Guests:
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Touré, a former music journalist for Rolling Stone and others and a host of Rap Latte
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Joseph Patel, a former music journalist for Paper and others and a producer of the documentary “Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)”
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