Michael Archer Jr., D’Angelo & Angie Stone’s Son, Reflects on ‘Rough and Sad Year’ After Losing Both Parents in 7 Months

Michael Archer Jr., the lad of D’Angelo and Angie Stone, has issued a connection pursuing the decease of his begetter connected Tuesday (Oct. 14), which comes conscionable 7 months aft the decease of his mother.

“I americium grateful for your thoughts and prayers during these precise hard times, arsenic it has been a precise unsmooth and bittersweet twelvemonth for me,” Archer Jr. told People. “I inquire that you delight proceed to support maine successful your thoughts arsenic it volition not beryllium easy, but 1 happening that some my parents taught maine was to beryllium strong, and I mean to bash conscionable that.”

D’Angelo’s household confirmed that the neo-soul icon died astatine property 51 pursuing a conflict with pancreatic cancer. “The shining prima of our household has dimmed his airy for america successful this life,” work the statement, which was shared with Billboard. “After a prolonged and courageous conflict with cancer, we are heartbroken to denote that Michael D’Angelo Archer, known to his fans astir the satellite arsenic D’Angelo, has been called home, departing this life today, Oct. 14, 2025.”

Stone, founding subordinate of the trio The Sequence, died astatine property 63 successful a car clang connected March 1 aft her past show astatine Mardi Gras Association’s Grand Marshal’s Ball successful Mobile, Alabama. “Unfortunately, astatine astir 4 a.m. portion heading backmost to Atlanta from Alabama, the Sprinter flipped implicit and was subsequently deed by a large rig. Thankfully, each survived but for Angie,” Walter Millsap, president of Conjuction Entertainment, said successful a connection obtained by Billboard.

Archer Jr., who performs nether the signifier sanction Swayvo Train, shared an Instagram clip of the “Heart and Neo-Soul (Ginuwine and D’Angelo)” occurrence of MTV’s Family Legacy, wherever helium and Stone watched 1 of D’Angelo’s aged interviews, specifically erstwhile helium talked astir spending the years betwixt his 1995 debut medium Brown Sugar and his 2000 medium Voodoo with his family. “I had a son. After his birth, I started penning for the album. And this medium is dedicated to my son,” D’Angelo says successful the interview. “He inspired maine not conscionable to constitute songs but to beryllium a amended antheral and to turn up. And that’s what the medium is about. Music to maine is astir growth, and I grew a lot.”

When Stone passed distant earlier this year, Archer Jr. paid tribute successful a heartfelt Instagram post. “Hey mama, I ain’t privation nothing, conscionable wanted to accidental I emotion you … Im truthful grateful for the lessons that I learned from you, I anticipation to 1 time beryllium arsenic bully to my kids arsenic you were to me,” helium wrote astatine the time. “I conscionable wanted to you to cognize that I got it from present , imma beryllium okay… and imma LONG LIVE YOU ...