Angela Bofill, R&B Hitmaker With a Silky Voice, Dies at 70
Bofill is best remembered for her silky blend of Latin, jazz, adult-contemporary, and soul, producing jazzy love songs like “This Time I’ll Be Sweeter” and funk-inflected pop numbers like “Something About You.” Her voice, described by Ariel Swartley in Rolling Stone magazine in 1979 as “cool as sherbet, creamy, delicately colored, mildly flavored,” spanned three and a half octaves. Starting in 1978, Bofill released six albums that reached the Top 40 of the Billboard R&B charts, with five crossing over […]
