D'Angelo and Angie Stone's Son Michael Reveals Why He Feels 'Cheated' by His Dad's Death
D'Angelo and Angie Stone's Son Michael Reveals Why He Feels 'Cheated' by His Dad's Death
Ilana KaplanThu, February 19, 2026 at 10:51 PM UTC
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Michael Archer Jr.
D'Angelo and Angie Stone's son Michael Archer Jr. made a rare comment about his father's death
In a clip from the ABC News Live special, Love & Neo-Soul: Honoring D’Angelo, he spoke about feeling "cheated" out of time with the Grammy-winning musician
D'Angelo died at the age of 51 in October 2025
D’Angelo’s son made a rare comment about his late father's death.
In a clip for the ABC News Live special, Love & Neo-Soul: Honoring D’Angelo, Michael Archer Jr. spoke about the gravity of D'Angelo's death last year.
Archer Jr. reflected on Lauryn Hill's tribute to his dad and Roberta Flack at the 2026 Grammy Awards and called it "bittersweet." “I love the tribute," he said, noting he that in his mind he'd want to honor his dad and mom Angie Stone, who also died in 2025, together.
While looking at old photos of him with his parents, he reflected on discovering his father was sick with pancreatic cancer around June or July 2025.
Angie Stone, D'Angelo and Michael Archer Jr.
Michael Archer II
"His voice as sounded weak like but he was still trying to talk to me like," says Archer Jr., who then found out D'Angelo (born Michael Eugene Archer) was in the hospital.
When asked how he's managing the loss of both his parents in one year, as well as his grandmother, he said he's been making music and lifting weights.
"I just started with a therapist," say Archer Jr. "That's been helping me"
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Archer Jr. then reflected on the challenges of being without D'Angelo now.
"I feel, like, cheated in a sense, you know, especially with my father. I was just excited for what the future held for us," he said.
Archer Jr. noted that as he gets older people tell him he looks "more like his father," though he thinks he looks like both his parents.
D'Angelo in July 2012 in Los Angeles
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A source confirmed to PEOPLE that D'Angelo died in October 2025 at the age of 51 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
At the time, the source said that the neo-soul icon "was in hospice for two weeks but had been in the hospital for months."
Stone, known as a co-founder of hip-hop trio The Sequence, died in March 2025 at the age of 63.
At the time, a representative for Stone (born Angela Laverne Brown) confirmed to PEOPLE that she was killed in a car crash also involving an 18-wheeler.
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