About this Event
The next event in the series Deep Dive, which invites audiences to listen — really listen — to artists who have shaped our musical imagination, focuses on D’Angelo, the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who died in 2025 at the age of 51. Known for synthesizing a wide variety of Black American musical styles, including R&B, soul, gospel, funk, jazz, and hip-hop, D’Angelo released three albums that altered the musical landscape and remain widely influential: Brown Sugar (1995), Voodoo (2000), and Black Messiah (2014). To help understand his contributions, we welcome a musician, to be announced, and scholar Daphne A. Brooks to guide the audience through selected tracks, taking a deep dive into the artist’s sound, style, and significance. Brooks is a professor of Black studies, American studies, women’s, gender, and sexuality Studies, and music at Yale University; she is the author of, most recently, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound.
Presented with H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music.
Made possible with support from the Elebash Global Voices Fund.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, United States
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