D’Angelo’s former girlfriend Angie Stone, a Grammy-nominated R&B singer, was killed in a car crash near Montgomery, Alabama, in March. The pair had a child together, Michael D’Angelo Archer II, a 27-year-old musical artist who goes by Swayvo Twain.

D’Angelo, the R&B crooner who helped pioneer neo-soul, has died after a private battle with cancer. He was 51.

D’Angelo is survived by three children, two sons and a daughter. His passing comes seven months after a tragic accident claimed the life of his ex, singer Angie Stone. The former couple dated for about four years between 1994 and 1998 and share one child, a son named Michael “Swayvo” Archer Jr.

Tributes have flooded in for the R&B and soul singer D’Angelo, who has died aged 51 after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. In a statement, his family wrote that the star, whose real name was Michael Eugene Archer, left behind a "legacy of extraordinarily moving music" and asked fans to celebrate “the gift of song that he has left for the world”.

R&B and soul legend D’Angelo died Tuesday from pancreatic cancer. The singer, born Michael Archer, was 51.

After hitting No. 1 with “Voodoo,” the genre-melding 2000 album that he promoted with a risqué music video, he vanished for more than a decade.

D’Angelo, who is survived by his three children, was working on his fourth album with singer-songwriter Raphael Saadiq at the time of his death. Tributes to the late artist have flooded social media since the news broke, particularly from his fellow musicians. Read a selection of them below.