Angela Bofill, the R&B singer behind the hits “I Try,” “I’m on Your Side” and “This Time I’ll Be Sweeter,” has died. She was 70. Bofill died Thursday at her daughter’s home in Vallejo, Calif., a rep ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… In the early ’80s, one of the biggest names in R&B was Angela Bofill. With addictive dance hits like “Too Tough” and soaring ballads like “This Time I’ll Be ...

Starting in the late 1970s, she scored multiple hit singles, including “This Time I’ll Be Sweeter” and “I Try,” but a pair of strokes in the 2000s ended her career. By Alex Williams Angela Bofill, a ...

Angela Bofill, a classically trained singer who became an R&B hitmaker in the late 1970s and ’80s, singing lush ballads and torch songs that showed off her expansive 3½-octave range, died June 13 in ...

The R&B singer, best known for hits like "I Try" and "This Time I'll Be Sweeter," died at her daughter's home in California on Thursday, June 13 Njera Perkins was a digital news writer at PEOPLE. She ...

She may have blessed us with “Angel of the Night,” but Angela Bofill isn’t singing with the angels quite yet. The jazzy R&B chanteuse behind such quiet-storm classics as “I Try,” “Tonight I Give In” ...

*The timeless melodies of Angela Bofill, an R&B luminary known for her soulful hits such as “This Time I’ll Be Sweeter,” “I Try,” “I’m On Your Side,” and “Tonight I Give In,” will echo through Lincoln ...

Angela Bofill waits in a plain, beige dressing room at the Birchmere, preparing to go onstage without something she has lost. It’s not a small thing. Most people, says one fan of the ’80s R&B ...

The artist's friend and manager Rich Engel shared the news on Friday. By Christy Piña Associate Editor Angela Bofill, the singer-songwriter behind hits “I Try,” “This Time I’ll Be Sweeter” and “I’m On ...