D’Angelo: 14 Essential Songs

The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music.D’Angelo onstage at Bonnaroo in 2012. He could be a one-man studio band in the mold of Prince and Stevie Wonder, or multitrack himself to simulate the collective yowl and cackle of Funkadelic or Sly & the Family Stone.