Happy Birthday, D'Angelo!

What you say to that man, a one Michael D'Angelo Archer, is thank you, thank you, thankyousoverymuch. We would say thank you so much for having the fortitude to please yourself musically first, then hope to please us. And please us you have countless times. As I've stated before, Brown Sugar changed my life. In a sense it helped to bring me closer to adulthood and leave the rag tag nature of adolescence behind. There was a time, ask your parents for more proof, when an album could be said to do this. Despite there being musical messengers out there whose music we bump, sway to, and play repeatedly on our iPods, D'Angelo is one of our generation's musical guides who was able to bridge a gap across differences in age, race, and gender. Anyone who is old enough to remember how an important a musical event Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key of Life was to the upliftment so needed in this country at the time of its release and its continued impact today, must surely understand the impact Brown Sugar, and then the most excellent Voodoo, had on this country's eardrums.