The late D’Angelo’s daughter, Imani Archer, is channeling her grief into music in a way that feels both intimate and brave. 

In an Instagram post, Archer says she used one of D’Angelo’s last voicemails to her to help shape a song called “I Don’t Believe In God,” a track she describes as being about spiraling and questioning faith after losing him to cancer last year. That detail gives the song an especially heavy emotional weight, because it turns a father’s voice into part of a daughter’s processing of loss. And not just any father, the father or rather…king of Neo-Soul. This sonic tribute to the music legend feels painfully fitting given what D’Angelo meant to his daughter and to music at large. 

In another post sharing the song, Archer captioned: “to everyone who’s spiraled after losing someone, after a heartbreak or anything that was too much for your heart to bare, this songs 4 you.” The talented heir to D’Angelo’s vocal throne shared that she’s singing lead, second, and third harmonies on the chilling track.

Archer, D’Angelo’s only daughter, was devastated after his death on Oct. 14, 2025, at age 51 from pancreatic cancer. In her tribute, she called him her “biggest supporter” and “protector,” and wrote, “Everything I do will always be for you.” 

That kind of love and bond makes Archer’s new song feel like a living memorial. She is turning her own emotional confusion into art. Grief is all-consuming and often s those grieving do so quietly. Archer is doing the opposite. She is putting her ache out in the open, letting the questions, the anger, the confusion she’s living through stand beside the love she continues to have for her father.

Shortly after D’Angelo’s death, Archer told BET that she’s been pursuing music and art in her own right, which makes this feel like another step in her evolution rather than a one-off tribute. Archer has been able to create from one of life’s heaviest places…the aftermath of losing a parent. Check out her cathartic single “I Don’t Believe In God” anywhere you stream music.