Angel (Angela Winbush song)

Single infobox
Name = Angel


Artist = Angela Winbush
from Album = Sharp
Released = 1987
Genre = Soul
Length = 3:45
Label = Polygram
Writer = Angela Winbush
Producer = Angela Winbush
Last single = "No How - No Way
(1986)
This single = Angel
(1987)
Next single = Run to Me
(1987)

"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. [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kp9yxdyboolf]

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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QjbwnX4zzk] .

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