D’Angel Writing A Book About Her Life To Be Released This Year
D’Angel is penning an autobiography which she hopes to release this year.
The Dancehall artiste broke the news to radio personality Barbie in a recent interview. “I want to have a keepsake that people can learn from, people can have for generations and generations to come so that’s how I want my story to be shared,” she said. “Up to now I have not shared my story so everything is bottled up inside of me, I just don’t talk.”
With social media being the modern digital diary, several celebrities have shared their life journey and stories through Instagram Live, while others have had stories told about them by those wishing to either expose or honour them.
But D’Angel said she will take neither route.
“Me waan share my own inna one book, dem haffi pay me for my story, my story nuh normal,” she said. “My story cannot be free, if that was the case mi woulda dash it out longtime, it woulda be cheap and free and available. My story is my life so mi cya mek dat just go suh cause a lot of women going through a lot of things and my book is going to be a healing for them so this is this best way to do it.”
D’Angel, whose given name is Michelle Downer, is a Spanish Town native who came to Kingston in pursuit of a modeling career in the 1990s. At the height of this endeavor, she met and fell in love with dancehall heavyweight Bounty Killer. The couple stayed together for several years but did not wed or have children.
Their split came as D’Angel said he was not supportive of her ambition of venturing into the music industry. She earned her breakout hit, Uptown Living, in 2005, and the couple split soon thereafter. The following year, she started working on music with Bounty’s then-rival Beenie Man, and their first release was One Man. Their musical chemistry grew romantic, and the couple was soon engaged and heading down the altar. The marriage welcomed one child, but was short-lived with public spats and cheating allegations on both ends.
D’Angel has also been at the centre of drama with deejay Spice in early 2019 over the success and promotion of their collab No Worries. Her most recent blow came with joining OnlyFans which resulted in semi-nude content being leaked.
The artiste said she even recently experienced betrayal but just doesn’t air her business online.
“Everything yuh can think of inna di world, most things, I’ve been through it, that’s why mi can counsel and talk on it,” she said. “I got stabbed in the back recently and I never talk about it because at the end of the day some things a waste a time so mi just regroup. When you try build people and build a team and bring people around your space they just want to suck what you have and then when God remove them from yuh space dem waan bring yuh down… I ignore a lot of things, I don’t deal with petty argument and petty battle because mi have my God a deal with my battle.”
In the meantime, the artiste is working on her debut EP dubbed Exposed which will address the recent trials she has endured and overcome.
She is also working on her first album which will feature her best work.
“The album is gonna be different, all dem song deh, Stronger, Breakfree, Survivor. I think I want to do a compilation of the best of D’Angel. There’s so much talent in me and my album will speak volumes.”