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Angela Tomasa Bofill (May 2, 1954 – June 13, 2024) was an American singer, songwriter and composer of Cuban Americans-Puerto Rican origins. A New York native, she began her professional career in the mid-1970s and is most known for singles such as "This Time I'll Be Sweeter", "Angel of the Night", and "I Try". Her career spanned over four decades.
Bofill performed a sold-out concert at Avery Fisher Hall as part of the Newport Jazz Festival on June 20, 1980. Her musical director was Onaje Allen Gumbs, keyboards, Sammy Figueroa, percussion, a 9-piece band and guests including Steve Khan, guitar, Eddie Daniels, tenor sax and flute, and a 24-voice choir.
Clive Davis, the head of Arista Records, showed interest in Bofill. Arista had a distribution deal with GRP. Bofill switched labels for her next album, Something About You (1981). Produced by Narada Michael Walden, the album was an attempt to move Bofill into mainstream R&B and pop music. It didn't perform as well as previous releases, despite the singles "Holdin' Out for Love" and the title track, which both reached the R&B Top 40. The following year, Bofill and Walden reunited for Too Tough. The title song reached No. 5 on the R&B chart and spent four weeks at No. 2 on the Dance chart. A follow-up single, "Tonight I Give In", reached the Top 20. Several months later, Bofill released her final collaboration with Walden, Teaser. The album failed to match the success of Too Tough but did produce one Top 20 R&B hit, "I'm On Your Side", which has been covered by several artists, most notably Jennifer Holliday, who had a Top 10 hit with it in 1991.
Bofill recorded two more albums for Arista with the help of The System and George Duke before leaving the label in the mid-1980s. Following the birth of her daughter, she moved to Capitol Records and the producer Norman Connors for Intuition (1988), which produced her last significant chart success, a cover of Gino Vannelli's "I Just Wanna Stop", which reached No. 11 on the R&B chart. She recorded three more albums over the next eight years and provided backing vocals on albums for Diana Ross and Kirk Whalum and for Connors's Eternity (2000). She performed live (with a sizable audience internationally, particularly in Asia) and appeared in the stage plays God Don't Like Ugly and What a Man Wants, What a Man Needs. She also toured the U.S. and Europe in multi-artist jazz shows.
Bofill returned to the stage, at the suggestion of Engel, for "The Angela Bofill Experience" after losing her ability to sing after her second stroke in 2007. In the show, Bofill recounted her life and career and was joined by Maysa Leak, Phil Perry, and Melba Moore, who performed her biggest hits and signature songs. In 2012, Bofill was profiled and interviewed for the TVOne documentary series, Unsung.
In 2023, Bofill was inducted into the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame.
The show was planned by Rich Engel, her manager, and the New York radio stations Kiss FM and WFAN-FM. It took place on March 11, 2006, at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey. Similar events followed, and other aid was sought from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. Her album Live from Manila (recorded in September 2004) was released during this time. Bofill suffered a second stroke in July 2007, which required therapy and left both her speech and mobility impaired.
She died on June 13, 2024, at the age of 70 at her daughter's home in Vallejo, California. Bofill's funeral mass was held on June 28, 2024 at St. Dominic's Catholic Church in Benicia, California.
| 1978 | Angie | 47 | 20 | 5 | 69 | GRP Records/Arista Records |
| 1979 | Angel of the Night | 34 | 10 | 2 | — | |
| 1981 | Something About You | 61 | 13 | 4 | — | Arista |
| 1983 | Too Tough | 40 | 6 | — | — | |
| Teaser | 81 | 20 | 21 | — | ||
| 1984 | Let Me Be the One | — | 39 | — | — | |
| 1985 | Tell Me Tomorrow | — | 53 | — | — | |
| 1988 | Intuition | — | 38 | — | — | Capitol Records |
| 1993 | I Wanna Love Somebody | — | 51 | — | — | Jive Records |
| 1996 | Love in Slow Motion | — | — | — | — | Shanachie |
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| 2006 | Live from Manila | — | — | Black Angel | ||
| "—" denotes the album failed to chart | ||||||
| 1986 | The Best of Angela Bofill | — | — | Arista Records | ||
| 1991 | The Best of Angie: Next Time I'll Be Sweeter | — | — | |||
| 1999 | The Definitive Collection | — | — | |||
| 2003 | Platinum & Gold Collection | — | — | |||
| 2004 | The Best of Angela Bofill | — | — | Sony BMG | ||
| 2014 | The Essential Angela Bofill | — | — | RCA Records, Sony Legacy | ||
| "—" denotes the album failed to chart | ||||||
| 1979 | "This Time I'll Be Sweeter" | 104 | 23 | 39 | — | — | Angie |
| "What I Wouldn't Do (For the Love of You)" | — | 18 | — | — | — | Angel of the Night | |
| 1980 | "Angel of the Night" | — | 67 | — | — | — | |
| 1981 | "Something About You" | — | 21 | — | — | — | Something About You |
| 1982 | "Holdin' Out for Love" | — | 26 | — | — | 32 | |
| "Break It to Me Gently" | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1983 | "Too Tough" | — | 5 | — | 2 | — | Too Tough |
| "Tonight I Give In" | — | 12 | — | — | — | ||
| "I'm on Your Side" | — | 20 | — | — | — | Teaser | |
| 1984 | "Special Delivery" | — | 65 | — | 34 | — | |
| "Can't Slow Down" | — | 59 | — | 15 | — | Let Me Be the One | |
| 1985 | "Let Me Be the One" | — | 84 | — | — | — | |
| "Who Knows You Better" | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Tell Me Tomorrow" | — | 72 | — | — | — | Tell Me Tomorrow | |
| 1986 | "I Don't Wanna Come Down (From Love)" | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Still in Love" | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1988 | "I Just Wanna Stop" | — | 11 | — | — | — | Intuition |
| 1989 | "Love Is in Your Eyes" | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1992 | "Love Was Never" (with Marion Meadows & Gene Rice) | — | 70 | — | — | — | Keep It Right There |
| 1993 | "I Wanna Love Somebody" | — | — | — | — | — | I Wanna Love Somebody |
| "Heavenly Love" | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes the single failed to chart | |||||||
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