Angela Bofill, singer of “I Try,” “I’m On Your Side,” dies at 70 – WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio

Engel also announced the artist’s death in two separate posts on Bofill’s Facebook page.

A native of New York, Bofill began her professional singing career as a teenager in the early 1970s, according to Variety. She attended the Manhattan School of Music and received a Bachelor of Music in 1976, the entertainment news website reported.

She was born in Brooklyn on May 2, 1954, and sang in New York’s All City Chorus as a teenager, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

She released her first album, “Angie,” in 1978, which included the hit “This Time I’ll Be Sweeter” and the jazz song “Under the Moon and Over the Sky,” the entertainment news website reported.

In 1979, Bofill released her second album, “Angel of the Night,” Variety reported. The album included “I Try” and “What I Wouldn’t Do (For the Love of You).”

Her next album, Something About You, included the title track and “Holdin’ Out for Love,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Bofill’s album “Too Tough” contains another hit: “I’m On Your Side,” the entertainment website reported.

News of Bofill’s death was initially met with skepticism, as rumors circulated in 2020 that she had died, People reported. The singer had suffered strokes in 2006 and 2007, according to the magazine.

Variety reported that she released ten studio albums over the course of her career and also sang background vocals on albums by Diana Ross and Kirk Whalum.

Bofill was inducted into the Women’s Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2023.