Talk:D'Angelo/Archive 1

James River
Here are links w/info about his next studio album.
 * James River (New Album) at Prefix Mag
 * D'Angelo Album Plans at BET
 * D'Angelo Plots Prince Collab at Billboard
 * D'Angelo Collaborates With Prince on 'James River' at BoomBox Blog
 * Quality Time: D’Angelo’s ‘James River’ at QTOnline
 * D'Angelo's Rep Claims 'No James River' or Prince Collab ? at SingersRoom
 * Body & Soul at Spin
 * Upcoming release at Producer Russell Elevado's Blog

B-class/GA article
If anyone is interested in creating this into a GA article, then check out the notes section of the Voodoo (album) article for useful info.

What's Going on
what is going on with D nowdays? is he in jail? i miss his songs..

Well excuse me if I sound rude but D basically blew up fat, and gut busted with drugs. He surprising though holds the extra weight well. I saw a few picks of him on the street and he is one of the few that pull of being an attractive fat man. Anyways the whole drug thing will hopefully stop.

I've only heard of this artist recently. However, I hear people referring to him as what I would transcribe as "Di Angelo" ("Dee Angelo"). If we were to follow usual naming and pronounciation rules his name would be pronounced as it's written, i.e., "Dangelo". So, what's up with that? Are the people I heard talking about him wrong, or does he really call himself Di Angelo? And, if so, what's the rationale? Is that a common thing in the USA? Some information about that on the page would be appreciated. -- tmegapscm 2005-07-23


 * "D'Angelo" (pronounced "Dee-AN-gel-o") is the proper spelling of his name. It is, in fact, his given midddle name. Names such as "D'Angelo", "D'Marcus", and "D'Shawn" are popular among African Americans --FuriousFreddy 12:02, 23 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the information. I knew it was spelt like that and it was his given name. But what I was curious about was the pronounciation of it as "Dee-". From what I understand, names with D'-something are (originally, at least) contractions from names of latin/romance origin, with the "D'" standing for a preposition like "de", "da", "do", "des", etc, meaning "of" or "of the", much like Van, Von, etc. But, as far as I can tell (other than in the Goan case) the "de", "da" etc. are only abbreviated when the name after it starts with a vowel -- like the case of D'Angelo itself, or D'Ávila (de Ávila), D'Assunção, etc (incidentally, it is common to see people from Goa, in India, to have names of Portuguese origin as "D'Souza" -- although, as far as I know, the Portuguese and other cultures descended from Portugal, such as Brazilian, do not contract it and write it as "de Souza"). So my question to you is, would you be able to explain where that tradition (among African Americans as you say) comes from? The two things: using the "D'" followed by a name (which is strangely, at times, a proper first name, as in the examples given by you) and having the D pronounced like "dee", instead of concatenating the sound with the next word. Thanks a lot. -- tmegapscm 2005-07-26

D'Angelo Info And New CD
After his recent car accident he stated to the press that he was hard at work on a new CD. If you Google his name and start to browse around the internet looking for D news you will quickly discover a whole bunch of useless info speculating on everything from his weight issues (who really cares?) to a serious drug issue. Irrespective, whatever the case his hardcore fans such as I eagerly await his new material while wearing out copy after copy of Brown Sugar and Voodoo.

What about a mention about his body-image problems? Some interesting inside information from this interview from Questlove...

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200308/?read=interview_thompson

D'Angelo arrested in New York
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8557107.stm

Does anyone want to add this? I'm surprised it hasn't been added already.Feudonym (talk) 14:41, 9 March 2010 (UTC)