Angel (Angela Winbush song)

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“Angel”
Single by Angela Winbush
from the album Sharp
Released 1987
Genre Soul
Length 3:45
Label Polygram
Writer(s) Angela Winbush
Producer Angela Winbush
Angela Winbush singles chronology
"No How - No Way
(1986)
Angel
(1987)
Run to Me
(1987)
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Winbush in the 'Angel'music video

"Angel" was the first single from Angela Winbush's solo debut, Sharp.

As half of the duo of René & Angela, Winbush had two number one R&B hits with "Save Your Love (For#1)" and "Your Smile." After a decade, René Moore and Winbush went their separate ways. "Angel" her solo-debut spent two weeks at the top of the US Billboard chart, it was also named by Billboard magazine the number nine most successful R&B single of 1987. [1]

The single was also nominated for a 1988 Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female, the song also helped Winbush get nominated for Female Album of the Year.

A video for "Angel" was released as a download on iTunes in May of 2007. It also it part of YouTube's music video program with Universal Records [2].


[edit] Compilations

  • Billboard Hot R&B Hits 1987
  • Soul Classics: Quiet Storm -- The 80's
  • Love Jones: Best of Funk Essentials, Vol. 2
  • Blues & Soul, Vol. 10: 1986-1987
  • 80's Urban Beats and Grooves
Preceded by
"Lovin' You" by The O'Jays
Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks number one single
November 14, 1987
Succeeded by
"Skeletons" by Stevie Wonder