D'Angelo's Brown Sugar helped define the neo soul movement. Released in 1995, the project pitched the singer/songwriter as a renaissance soul man, at home playing bluesy keyboard lines and singing in falsetto while hipping a new generation to Smokey Robinson classics. 2000's long-awaited Voodoo brought his talent and image into the mainstream, this time with a vibe that benefitted from the considered touch of Raphael Saadiq. D'Angelo is notorious for his perfectionist tendencies when recording—but his releases are always worth the wait.